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....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed January 27, 2021
Emergency Situation — Spider Excavators Fix 'HeleSlide' Along Critical Highway
Referred to as a "HeleSlide" by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), a major landslide occurred in 2019 along State Route 299 between Junction City and Willow Creek in Trinity County (northwestern California) that brought down a massive amount of rock and earth and revealed a fractured and fragile mountainside along the critical highway....
TxDOT - Mon December 28, 2020
Webber Completes MoPac Project, Santa Cuts Ribbon
TxDOT celebrated the completion of the MoPac Intersections project with Santa Claus cutting the ribbon during a live virtual ceremony. In addition to Santa, TxDOT officials were joined by State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, State Rep....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Mon December 28, 2020
ETB Crews on Pace to Complete FM 2206 Project
East Texas Bridge Inc. (ETB) started operations last July to widen a portion of FM 2206/Harrison Road from Loop 281 to Fisher Road in the city of Longview (Gregg County), a $15.16 million Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) project that is taking the road from one lane in each direction to two, with a center turn lane....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Wed December 23, 2020
Success of Florida's J. McKinnon Due to Integrity, Efficiency
The task of building Florida's mammoth Brightline Trains extension from West Palm Beach to Cocoa, then west to Orlando International Airport, is a Herculean one for any of the contractors on the project....
Colin Kund – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu December 17, 2020
Wolfe's Excavating Preps Massive Charles Pointe Project
Wolfe's Excavating LLC started like a lot of businesses — small. Alex Wolfe started the company in 2007 with just a single-axle dump truck, a trailer and a mini-excavator. Since then, the business has grown exponentially and Wolfe's has completed some large scale, high-profile projects....
CEG - Wed December 16, 2020
Sweatt Construction Relies on 4Rivers for Reclamation Project
A contractor is getting a lot of help from above on a challenging project in a remote corner of New Mexico, near the Colorado border. Sweatt Construction, with assistance from 4Rivers Equipment, is using drone technology and GPS machine control to efficiently complete a reclamation project at the abandoned Swastika Mine, a former silver and lead mine, near Raton, N.M....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Tue November 24, 2020
Minnesota Aims to Rid Road of Dangerous Conditions
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is overseeing a $64.5 million project that will use giant underground stormwater tanks designed to ease a dangerous condition. The completed undertaking will help reduce frequency and severity of flooding on a busy freeway in south Minneapolis....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu November 12, 2020
MSU Sings Happy Tune for New Music Facility
Faculty and students at Mississippi State University (MSU) are eagerly awaiting completion of a new structure that will boost the size and quality of the school's music department for years to come....
Dick Rohland – CEG Correspondent - Wed October 14, 2020
Minnesota's Dale Street Bridge Honors Residents
A unique blending of engineering, art and enthusiastic neighborhood input were key components in the replacement design of one of the original, urban bridges built over I-94 when President Eisenhower's massive interstate highway system began construction in the late 1950's....
