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Experts Offer Sunny Forecast for Industry in ’06

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Pete Sigmund - Economists from many areas of construction predict that the industry should fare well in 2006.They cite many reasons for optimism. The economy is growing at a good clip. Federal appropriations authorized by the new six-year highway and mass transit act are stimulating highway and bridge co...

AGC Continues Role as Strong Voice for Contractors, Industry

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Pete Sigmund - When Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) speaks, government and industry listen.AGC has been a voice of construction for 87 years.Headquartered in Arlington, VA, outside Washington, D.C., and with chapters from the Atlantic to the Pacific, AGC advocates contractor positi...

Southeast Dealers Cope With Floods

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Pete Sigmund - Before Hurricane Katrina roared through on Aug. 29, employees at the branch store of Great Southern Tractor Co. Inc., in Biloxi, MS, moved a pickup truck to assumed safekeeping inside the store.All hell broke loose. Winds of at least 100 mph tore away the large doors on the north a...

Raids on Highway Funds Abate … For Now

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Pete Sigmund - The fiscal crisis has abated for most states, increasing opportunities for contractors. This is a significant turnaround from as recently as early 2004 when fiscal uncertainty held back numerous highway and bridge projects. Some states were even “raiding” their transportation t...

Army Corps Chief Outlines Steps to Build Cat 5 Levees

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Pete Sigmund - By Pete SigmundCEG EDITORIAL CONSULTANTIn the following exclusive interview with Construction Equipment Guide, Donald Basham, chief of engineering construction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Washington, D.C., discussed important facets of protecting New Orleans agains...

Mississippi May Float Concept of Land-based Casinos

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Pete Sigmund - “A casino is coming!”Looking out from their third-floor window of the Holiday Inn resort hotel in Biloxi, MS, during Hurricane Katrina, a couple saw a massive floating casino heading their way as a 28-ft. storm surge roared across land, including the four-lane Highway 90, from ...

Rebuilt New Orleans Must Adopt Building Codes

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Pete Sigmund - The city of New Orleans can be rebuilt at its present location, and safely withstand future floods and hurricanes, if it follows special building codes for its homes and commercial buildings — and rebuilds its levees using steel pilings as many engineers have long suggested.That̵...

Professional Development Leads To Marketing Success

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Pete Sigmund - How can contractors and subcontractors better sell themselves to bring in more business?Construction organizations have many profitable ideas on that all-important question.Their suggestions during interviews with Construction Equipment Guide (CEG) ranged from using the Web more cle...

Highway Bill Brimming With ’Earmark’ Projects

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Pete Sigmund - The new $286.4-billion six-year transportation bill includes a record 6,371 special “earmark” projects inserted by congressmen apart from the usual state planning process.Approximately 8 percent ($24 billion) of the funding in the bill is for a wide and interesting array of suc...

Bush Signs $286.4B Highway Bill at Cat Facility

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Pete Sigmund - President George W. Bush signed a $286.4-billion six-year highway and mass transit bill into law Aug. 10, ending approximately two years of contentious delay that impeded the nation’s long-range planning for transportation construction.Bipartisan support was almost unanimous in Congr...