Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed November 13, 2024
California's I-80 Pavement Rehab Project Moving Along
Construction crews in Northern California are making significant progress on the Yolo I-80 Pavement Rehab Project — a $280 million effort to serve motorists traveling along I-80 between Sacramento and Davis....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu November 07, 2024
Raising I-95 in North Carolina's Coastal Plain
One small town getting hit by a pair of destructive floods in three years by powerful hurricanes is almost assuredly going to lead to expensive engineering countermeasures. That certainly has been the case the last few years in Lumberton, N.C., where Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Florence in 2018 each caused 1,000-year-floods along the city's Lumber River and inundated sections of Interstate 95, the United States' primary freeway on the East Coast, leading to its partial closure in the Tarheel State's Coastal Plain....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Tue October 29, 2024
Caltrans' Fix50 Mobility Project Still on Schedule
In hopes of meeting a September 2025 deadline, construction crews in California are working night and day on Caltrans' Fix50 Project. The nearly $484 million effort will enhance mobility while providing incentives for ride sharing during peak period travel....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu September 28, 2023
ST Wooten, NCDOT Wrapping Up Project to Double Capacity On I-95
S.T. Wooten is finishing up a multi-year construction project to double the traffic capacity on I-95 in North Carolina. This massive project covers 18.2 mi. and is now 82 percent complete. Final details will stretch into 2025, but by then motorists will already be enjoying two additional lanes in each direction on this highway, providing less congestion and greater safety....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Thu February 16, 2023
NCDOT Works to Widen, Improve 55 Miles of I-95 to Meet Future Demands
Interstate 95 stretches 182 mi. across North Carolina, some of it built nearly 70-odd years ago and as can be expected, now significantly outdated. But not for long. The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has awarded six contracts for 55 mi....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue August 23, 2022
Flatiron, Drill Tech Drilling & Shoring Inc. Restore Eroding Slopes
The California Department of Transportation is spending $51 million to construct two secant (retaining) walls to restore eroded slopes on the coastal side of the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH, Route 1) south of Point Mugu State Park in Ventura County....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu July 14, 2022
Branch Civil-Flatiron Leads Challenging Reversible HOT Lanes Extension Project
Over the past 10 years, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has presided over a congestion-relief strategy of building networks of high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes that double as free high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes....
CEG - Tue June 28, 2022
Flatiron, Lane Construction Demolish Bridge in Bellevue
The joint venture of Flatiron and Lane Construction have made considerable progress on one of the largest construction projects in the Puget Sound region. Crews demolished the Main Street Bridge in Bellevue, Wash., across Interstate 405, over the weekend of June 17 as part of the $705 million I-405, Renton to Bellevue Widening and Express Toll Lanes Project....
AGC of California - Tue May 31, 2022
Firms Pause Project to Address Mental Health Awareness
On Monday, May 16, Associated General Contractors of California, along with Flatiron Construction, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the Southern California District Council of Laborers of the Laborers' International Union of North America (LiUNA!) and the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) held a Mental Health Awareness Stand Down and called on the construction industry as a whole to recognize the importance of mental health for worker's safety and well-being....
San Diego Union-Tribune - Wed December 01, 2021
Crews Begin $3.4B San Diego Airport Terminal Project
Construction activities are finally under way after nearly a decade of planning at San Diego International Airport on a $3.4 billion project that will eventually replace the 1960s-era Terminal 1 and build a new airport access road....
