Edgar A. Browning - Wed February 08, 2017
Looking Back: Building a Seven-Mile Canal in Cape Cod
The Cape Cod Canal is a manmade waterway in Massachusetts linking Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south. The seven mile long canal is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and crosses the isthmus of Cape Cod....
Mon February 06, 2017
Hidden Beer Vault Found Underneath Williamsburg Construction Site
Trees aren't the only things Brooklyn produces — beer once brewed below a Williamsburg apartment building. A construction crew began clearing the site at 33 Ten Eyck St. for a low-income apartment building in 2015 when workers struck a vault during excavation....
Linda Lynn - Fri January 13, 2017
Trees, Flags Top off State's Construction History
The topping out ceremony celebrates the completion of many hours of heavy lifting, the near completion of constructing a building. It's a time for celebration. Sometimes it's an undecorated evergreen or decorated Christmas tree....
Matt Wheeler - Thu January 12, 2017
Contrasting Construction in Bulgaria
Students in the new course “Construction Management Practices in Eastern Europe” began their studies early last summer in the heart of Bulgaria, spending two weeks examining historic and modern construction sites throughout the country....
Sun December 11, 2016
Historic Bricks in Houston Disturbed During Construction
HOUSTON (AP) Officials and preservationists are upset by damage done to bricks laid by former slaves in Freedmen's Town in Houston when the bricks were mistakenly disturbed during construction work....
Edgar A. Browning - Mon November 14, 2016
Looking Back: Building United Nations' Headquarters
Four NYC contractors formed a joint venture to construct the United Nations headquarters in New York. The group, Fuller-Turner-Walsh-Slattery Inc., submitted the low bid of $24 million and was awarded the contract in January 1948....
Jeremy Fugleberg - THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER - Fri November 04, 2016
Ohio Highway 32: A Road of Unintended Consequences
CINCINNATI (AP) Ask Meeka Mohler about her historical photos of Jim Rhodes, and she'll wave you toward the back of Michael's Ice Cream. There, Rhodes' face stares out of old newspaper articles marking the one-time Ohio governor's visits back to his hometown of Jackson and the shop, where he got his first job working for Mohler's great-grandfather....
Eric D. Lawrence - DETROIT FREE PRESS - Wed November 02, 2016
Law Prevents Historic Road From Earning Honor
MONROE, Mich. (AP) The wooden remnants of a centuries-old military road known as Hull's Trace emerge when the water level is low near the spot where the Huron River empties into Lake Erie. A road has been in this spot underneath modern-day West Jefferson Avenue in what is now the southern tip of Wayne County for more than 200 years, connecting Ohio and Detroit....
Mon October 31, 2016
Looking Back at the Construction of Mount Rushmore
On Oct. 31, 1941 work ceased on the iconic Mount Rushmore monument, the massive South Dakota sculpture from which four of America's most beloved presidents gaze out over the landscape. Though the sculpture did not yet match the original designs by sculptor Gutzon Borglum, by the time it was completed it had been in the works for years, as these photos show....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Wed October 19, 2016
'Tracking' the History of Crawler Loaders, Dozer
Tracked (or crawler) loaders are machines with a tracked chassis and a loader that can be used for digging and moving/loading materials. They are a versatile component of any fleet, able to perform many tasks....
