Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed May 13, 2020
Joint Venture Working to Rebuild, Widen Lanes Along I-65
The joint-venture of Dunn Construction Co. Inc. and Wiregrass Construction Company are looking to deliver the Alabama Department of Transportation's (ALDOT) $68 million widening of four miles of I-65 (south of I-459 from exits 238 to 242) by this July....
Sonora Construction - Wed May 06, 2020
Sonora Construction Puts Bell Trucks, Hyundai Excavators to Work
A Houston-area contractor is moving 2.5 million cu. yds. of dirt on a Howard Hughes Company project in Cypress, Tex. The $10 million project will create a 2-mi. long mitigation lake system and about 300 acres of future residential lots and common areas in the Bridgeland Subdivision, an 11,000-acre, master-planned community that will eventually be home to 65,000 people northwest of Houston....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 29, 2020
Foundation Work Complete on $136.6M Iowa Courthouse
Foundation work on a new $136.6 million federal courthouse in Des Moines is under way with augered pier work complete and pile cap installations and early work packages for the deep footings and site utilities started in March....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Thu April 23, 2020
The 'First State' Updates Part of Its I-95
One of the busiest highway corridors in the U.S. is Interstate 95, a stretch that runs north from Richmond, Va., before continuing around Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, New Haven, Conn., and Boston....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 16, 2020
S.T. Wooten Off to Good Start on I-95 Widening From Raleigh to Fayetteville
The Feb. 9 closure of the Long Branch Road bridge (Exit 71) over Interstate 95, north of Fayetteville (Harnett County), marked the first stage of the North Carolina Department of Transportation's (NCDOT) $404 million project to widen 18 miles of the interstate under a design-build contract awarded to S.T....
CEG - Thu April 16, 2020
Pennsylvania Buries Graffiti Highway
After 58 years on fire, it's taken a global pandemic and a stay-at-home order to put an end to the ghost town-turned-tourist-attraction in Centralia, Pa. The site of an uncontrolled, underground coal fire since 1962, this strip of Route 61 known as Graffiti Highway has been covered with dirt by workers with heavy equipment and shut down after visitors swarmed the site during the coronavirus lockdown....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 01, 2020
Innovation, Green Infrastructure Resolves Flooding
In 2017, Astra-Rohadfox UPC JV LP, a joint venture between Astra Group and Rohadfox Construction Control Services Corporation, was selected to deliver the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management's (DWM) Upper Proctor Creek Capacity Relief Facility and the Trust for Public Land's (TPL) Rodney Cook Sr....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue March 31, 2020
Worcester Red Sox Stadium Build Proceeds on Track for 2021 Season
The Pawtucket Red Sox — the Boston Red Sox's TripleA team — from Pawtucket, R.I., is moving into a new 10,000-capacity baseball stadium in Worcester, Mass., which is expected to be ready by April 2021, in time for the season....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu March 19, 2020
Robbins & Morton Making Progress on Huntsville Hospital
Ground was broken in early January 2019 for the construction of Huntsville Hospital's $250 million, seven-story Orthopedic & Spine Tower (OST) at its Alabama campus, making it the biggest medical construction project in the downtown area since the hospital opened its north patient tower in 1980....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed March 11, 2020
Connecticut's Maritime Aquarium Undergoes Major Improvements
A popular New England tourist attraction is undergoing major changes. Work is under way on a new seal exhibit and 4D theater at Connecticut's Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, in response to the scheduled reconstruction of a railroad bridge adjacent to the facility....
