CEG - Thu June 10, 2021
Old Negro Leagues Ballpark in Paterson, N.J., Gets Financing for New Life
Financing has been finalized to redevelop Hinchliffe Stadium, a former Negro Leagues baseball park in Paterson, N.J., clearing the way for work to continue the $94 million project. One of only four remaining Negro Leagues ballparks still standing, Hinchliffe Stadium opened in 1932 and was home to, at various times, the New York Black Yankees and New York Cubans during the ‘30s and ‘40s....
South Coast Improvement Company - Tue May 11, 2021
South Coast Improvement Company Recognized as Part of Hood Milk Bottle Renovation
The Boston Children's Museum recently received the 2021 Mayor Thomas M. Menino Legacy Award by Preservation Massachusetts for the renovation of the historic Hood Milk Bottle structure. South Coast Improvement Company (SCIC), a design-build general contractor serving New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, was the general contractor for this award-winning restoration of the iconic Hood Milk Bottle that stands between the Children's Museum and Fort Point Channel at 308 Congress Street in Boston....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Mon April 26, 2021
O'Rourke Completes Demo, Saves Historic Clock Tower
The historic former United States Playing Card Company headquarters and factory in Norwood, Ohio, a suburb in Cincinnati, is being transformed into a $150 million plus mixed-use development that will have more than 500 residential units; a brewery; a public market and food hall; more than 100,000-sq....
HCEA - Mon April 12, 2021
Looking Back: Historical Cranes
The HCEA provides a lookback at cranes from the past. The Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preserving for public education the history of the construction, dredging and surface mining equipment industries....
National Parks Traveler - Thu March 18, 2021
Wall of Remembrance Being Built at D.C.'s Korean War Veterans Memorial
Construction on the Wall of Remembrance and an overall rehabilitation of the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was started in mid-March. The wall is a new, permanent addition to the memorial that will include the names of 36,574 American servicemembers and more than 7,200 members of the Korean Augmentation to the United States Army who gave their lives defending the people of South Korea....
Michael Gerard — SPECIAL TO CEG - Thu March 11, 2021
Behind Ireland's Final Rebellion and … an American Dream
Construction people like to read about machinery and many of them like to read about other subjects, too — like history and war and such. Some people who make and sell machinery also like to write books and sometimes a writer comes out of this mix who can combine history, war and actual machinery into their books....
Associated Press - Wed December 16, 2020
Crews Discover Howitzer Round on Yuma Job Site
YUMA, ARIZ. (AP) A construction crew in southern Arizona has discovered an unexploded howitzer round while working on a road. Yuma Proving Ground's explosives experts identified the ordnance as a 155 mm howitzer round of a kind that were used in World War II and the Vietnam War, The Sun reported....
HCEA - Mon December 07, 2020
Cranes of the Past
Take a look back at cranes of the past courtesy of Historical Construction Equipment Association. (The Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preserving for public education the history of the construction, dredging and surface mining equipment industries.)...
Weirton Daily Times - Tue December 01, 2020
West Virginia's Capitol Dome Repair to be Done by Late Spring
By late spring 2021, work should be finished on a $15 million project to repair the water-damaged West Virginia Capitol dome in Charleston and install a new drainage system to mitigate future leaks, among other structural repairs....
JCB - Thu October 22, 2020
From Garage to Global Force: JCB Marks 75 Years in Business
JCB was founded on Oct. 23, 1945, by the late Joseph Cyril Bamford in a tiny lock-up garage in the Staffordshire market town of Uttoxeter in the UK. It was the same day his son Anthony, now Lord Bamford, was born, and as Bamford remarked "being presented with a son tended to concentrate the mind and when you were starting at the bottom, there was only one way to go and that was up."The foundation for the growth that was to follow was the manufacture of a tipping trailer made from war time scrap, which today stands proudly in the showroom of JCB's World HQ....
