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OSHA: Jobsite Deaths Hit Record High in ’01

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Pete Sigmund - Somewhere in current construction activities, fatal accidents lie in wait. The construction industry reported 1,225 fatal occupational injuries during 2001, according to statistics recently released by the U. S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSH...

’Trenchless’ Technology Emerges From the Underground

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Pete Sigmund - How do you install or rehab water, sewer, power, communications, gas or other lines under highway intersections, buildings, rivers, railroad crossings, and other barriers? The answer is often to use “trenchless technologies,” which, like unseen electric moles, excavate earth, ...

Gray Market Wanes

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Pete Sigmund - How has the economic downturn affected the “Gray Market” — imported machines usually sold at discount prices after bypassing the established manufacturer /distributor channels? Are more contractors buying “gray iron” to help their bottom lines? How many gray ...

New Building Codes Reflect Security and Disaster Concerns

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Pete Sigmund - Standards are the bedrock of building construction. An integral part of building codes in each state and municipality, they stipulate everything from required hardness and strength of materials to fire resistance. Small wonder that the standards and building code community has been shaken ...

Building a Terror-Proof Skyscraper: Experts Debate Feasibility, Options

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Pete Sigmund - Ground Zero, the 16-acre site of the destroyed World Trade Center buildings, is now bare brown earth, at a level seven stories down from the surrounding skyscrapers and streets. But it is a place of great hope, symbolized not only by the visit of President Bush on Sept. 11, to encourage grieving ...

Sept 11: Looking Back and Ahead

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Pete Sigmund - The “911” terrorist attacks that took 2,823 lives at the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City one year ago touched us all in some way and changed our lives as well. Remembering it is painful, bringing back, for everyone, many desolate moments, but necessary if the personal growth...

DOT Red Tape Mires Projects in Costly Downtime

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Pete Sigmund - Many highway and bridge projects in the United States appear to be behind schedule, sunk in quagmires of delays. Interviews with contractors and construction organizations in all regions of the United States indicate that, despite record federal and state funding, projects in many states a...

Industry Mobilizes to Rescue PA’s ’Miracle Miners’

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Pete Sigmund - Out of the depths I cry to thee, O Lord! Lord, hear my voice. — Psalm 130 When a crane lifted nine coal miners, one by one, in a rescue basket from their dark captivity 240 feet below the earth at the Quecreek Mine in Pennsylvania on the early Sunday morning...

Cities Eye Boon From Waterfront Projects

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Pete Sigmund - Developing waterfront areas animates cities and stimulates local economies. Beautiful waterfronts attract visitors, new restaurants, retail stores, and recreational facilities, and keep the good times rolling. What are the visions, problems and solutions in successfully developing a wate...

Texas Traffic Report: Expect Major Delays

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Pete Sigmund - Frustrating, expensive traffic jams on the nation’s urban freeways are getting worse every day. The 2002 Urban Mobility Study by the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), released on June 20, revealed that travelers lost an average of 62 hours because of traffic congestion during 20...