CEG - Tue August 20, 2024
Louisiana Ready to Proceed With Building $2.3B I-10/Calcasieu River Bridge in Lake Charles
Construction to replace Louisiana's most notorious bridge on Interstate 10 could finally begin this year, ultimately clearing a national chokepoint for improved cross-country commerce. Republican Gov....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue August 20, 2024
Longview Bridge and Road Build Replaces Two Texarkana Spans
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) recently opened the new and long-awaited bridge on State Highway (SH) 8 that links Bowie and Cass counties in the Texarkana area. The $37.7 million, constructed by Longview Bridge and Road Ltd....
Tampa Bay Times - Mon August 19, 2024
Traffic Could Begin Moving Across Tampa Bay's Howard Frankland Bridge in Early 2025
Drivers could hop on the new $865.3 million Howard Frankland Bridge over Tampa Bay as early as this coming January or February. That is the word from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), which confirmed in mid-August that the last of the major construction phases is under way....
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs - Mon August 19, 2024
Gov. Maura Healy Kicks Off Work in Salem, Mass., On State's Second Offshore Wind Terminal
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll were on hand in Salem Aug. 15 to celebrate the groundbreaking of the that city's Offshore Wind Terminal, the state's second such facility after the New Bedford site....
CEG - Mon August 19, 2024
Crews Continue Five-Stage Plan to Upgrade I-90/I-495 Interchange Near Boston
Drivers on Interstates 90 and 495 in the Bay State will see more construction equipment during their commutes as work on improving the interchange connecting the two highways is currently at a high point, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT)....
The New Bedford Light & MassCEC - Mon August 19, 2024
New Bedford, Mass., Marine Terminal to Be Expanded to Handle Larger Wind Turbine Parts
To cement Massachusetts' position in the offshore wind industry, the state is expanding its first — as well as the country's first — marshaling site at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal to handle bigger and heavier turbine components as several staging sites come online along the Atlantic Coast....
Link-Belt Cranes - Mon August 19, 2024
VIDEO: Link-Belt TCC-2500s Provide Solution to South Carolina Bridge Project
The Lane Construction Corporation is utilizing two Link-Belt 250-ton TCC-2500 telescopic crawler cranes to construct two bridges over the Wateree River in Kershaw County, S.C. The bridges will replace two preexisting overpasses along Interstate 20 as part of a South Carolina Department of Transportation bridge rehabilitation project....
CEG - Thu August 15, 2024
RIDOT Awards $625M Building Contract to Skanska-Led JV for 'I-95 15' Project in Providence
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) recently finalized a $625 million contract with the one and only bidder on a project to rebuild a total of 15 bridges along key stretches of Interstate 95 and Rhode Island Highway 10 in the Providence metro area....
New Hampshire Union Leader - Wed August 14, 2024
Southern New Hampshire Has Seen Flurry of Highway Work This Summer
From Londonderry to Manchester and Bedford to Nashua, it has been a busy summer of highway construction in the southern portion of New Hampshire, with crews working on new bridges, new lanes and new exits....
CEG - Wed August 14, 2024
Rising Tides, Worse Storms Lead Two Maine Towns to Solutions in Battling Climate Change
In Stonington, Maine, Town Manager Kathleen Billings has the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 2016 100-year flood map tacked on the wall above her desk. Eight years later, she is leading her town in efforts to fortify the community's infrastructure against ocean warming, worsening storms and rising tides....
