Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed May 19, 2021
HIghway 1 Emergency Reconstruction
Highway 1, California's scenic highway that runs along the Pacific Coast, experienced a serious washout at Rat Creek in Monterey County on Jan. 28 when a post-fire debris flow from the Dolan Fire burn scar removed a 150-ft....
InSite Software - Wed May 19, 2021
Digital Take-Off Solutions Save Time When Developing Machine Control Plans
Moving tons of dirt over a large area down to millimeter accuracy is a daunting task. Machine control is an excellent way of improving grading productivity and accuracy. Earthwork movers can achieve accurate grades the first time, thereby reducing rework and re-grading....
K-Tec and Soil Connect - Thu May 13, 2021
K-Tec, Soil Connect Partner to Promote Efficient Earthmoving
Soil Connect and K-Tec Earthmovers are working together to promote responsible and efficient earthmoving and material transportation practices across the United States. In order to bring awareness to the common pitfalls and inefficiencies faced by today's dirt movers, the companies have agreed to work together to educate the earthmoving industry through multiple cross-promotional channels about new technologies and best practices....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu May 13, 2021
Crews Make Headway On $63M I-16/I-75 Improvement Project
Since ground was broken in April 2017 on the Georgia Department of Transportation's (GDOT) I-16/I-75 Improvement Project in Macon, crews from E.R. Snell Contractor Inc. and C.W. Matthews Contracting Company Inc....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 15, 2021
Tennessee Aims to Ease Traffic Woes Along I-40
Construction crews in Tennessee are working on 5 mi. of Interstate 40, starting at the North Highland exit and continuing east to the Highway 70 exit. The roughly $88 million effort, which began in November 2020, will widen the interstate from four to six lanes, and also replace five bridges, including three overhead/overpass structures and two interstate bridges over railroads....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 14, 2021
BLEX Conducts Major Earth Work Operations in Missouri
JE Dunn Construction Company broke ground last June for the $295,974,160 design-build replacement of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Kansas City district) Fort Leonard Wood Hospital, an initiative expected to be delivered in fall 2024....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 14, 2021
Work Resumes On Michigan's Firesteel River Bridge
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is overseeing a $12.8 million project on M-26 over the east and west branches of the Firesteel River. The work is taking place in Ontonagon County in the western Upper Peninsula....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 08, 2021
Triton Construction Nears Finish On $61.5M Western Maryland Highway Project
After a winter slow-down, crews are getting back to work to complete a design-build highway project in Grantsville, Md., which is in the westernmost part of the state, Garrett County. At the end of March, the $61.5 million project was 83.2 percent complete, according to the Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration (SHA)....
Water. ca. gov - Tue March 09, 2021
Crews Move Five Million Cu. Yds. of Soil for Wildlife Project
A fleet of bulldozers and other heavy equipment began the enormous task of moving roughly 5 million cu. yds. of soil around a 4,110-acre area of dry lakebed at the southern end of the Salton Sea as part of the Species Conservation Habitat Project....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed February 03, 2021
Easing Missouri/Arkansas Border Bottleneck
Crews are working six days a week on a $70 million project that will complete the final 5 mi. of I-49 in Missouri between Pineville and the Missouri/ Arkansas border. When the I-49 Connector is completed, I-49 will stretch 290 mi....
