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After Nine Months, WTC Site Cleanup Concludes

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Pete Sigmund - The heartbreaking round-the-clock unprecedented project to remove 1.7-million tons (1.5 million t) of twisted wreckage from Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, where the World Trade Center once stood, is completed. At first, there was a hushed silence as thousands of people, including r...

TRIP Report Names Worst Bridges in U.S.

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Pete Sigmund - A report from The Road Information Program (TRIP) that approximately one in four of the country’s major heavily-traveled bridges is deficient and needs to be repaired or replaced is attracting widespread interest, and some controversy. Many state departments of transportation (DOTs) ...

EPA: Nation’s Water Bill to Reach $650B

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Pete Sigmund - A leak from an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) draft report warns of a critical “gap” in the nation’s water infrastructure. The leak revealed the contents of an EPA 2002 draft report of water systems needs that the agency must present in its periodic report to Cong...

EPA Eyes Tougher Air Standards

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Pete Sigmund - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has won the legal battle to implement tougher clean air standards — a victory that could affect many areas of the construction industry, which will have to control emissions under future state implementation plans for complying with the standards. ...

AFL/CIO Responds to ABC’s Attack on Unions

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Pete Sigmund - Editor’s Note: In the most recent issue of “Construction Equipment Guide” [April 10, 2002; No. 8] we interviewed Associated Builders and Contractors’ (ABC) National Chairman Ken Adams. In the article, Adams outlined his organization’s strategy to elect a Senate that...

ABC’s Chair Maps Out Strategy to ’Take Back Senate’

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Pete Sigmund - (Ken Adams, national chairman of the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), Washington, D.C., for 2002, began his construction career while still in his teens, and is now President of Pace Electric Inc., an electrical contracting firm in New Castle, DE. He’s active in the local...

Industry Draws Battle Lines for Bush Budget

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Pete Sigmund - The Bush Administration’s $2.13-trillion budget proposal for the 2003 fiscal year includes a drastic $8.6-billion cut in federal highway funding, causing serious concern in the construction industry about possible delay of projects and potential loss of thousands of jobs. The 27 per...

ConExpo-Con/AGG Trade Show Echoes Industry’s Evolution

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Pete Sigmund - Old-timers among us remember steamrollers, associated with the smell of hot asphalt, and steam shovels, whose operator sat in a wooden “house” on a flat chassis as he pulled levers to work the cables that swung, opened, and closed the jaws at the end of the machine’s arm. ...

State DOTs Dispute Failing Grades Revealed in TRIP Highway Analysis

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Pete Sigmund - With highway funding at record levels, a study reveals that pavements on many of the nation’s roads and bridges are still in bad shape. What’s up? The Road Information Program (TRIP), a non-profit transportation research group in Washington, D.C., primarily supported by the highway ...

ARTBA Rings in 2002 By Celebrating Its Centennial Birthday

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Pete Sigmund - One hundred years ago, Horatio “By Gum” Earle, president of a bicyclists’ association called the League of American Wheelmen, met with three other men in the Cadillac Hotel in New York City. They approved a constitution of an association of road builders that is today a major fo...