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Groundbreaking Set for NYC’s Freedom Tower

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Pete Sigmund - It will point skyward like a spacecraft on its launch pad, like the spire of a cathedral, or, most fittingly, like the Torch of Freedom that the Statue of Liberty raises on her arm in New York Harbor.The Freedom Tower, with its steel and glass exterior reflecting the sun, will reach 1,776 ...

TEA-21 Funding: Pork or Progress?

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Pete Sigmund - Is our highway funding system working?Advocates, including construction organizations, say the system approaches needs realistically, and is underfunded, not overfunded, in terms of reaching transportation goals.Critics say the system is overspending on everything from bicycle trail...

EPA Continues War on Contaminated Sites With Superfund

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Pete Sigmund - We’re winning an important war on terror.In this case, the terror lurks in the earth in the form of hazardous substances, which, if allowed to remain, would endanger lives.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has conquered the menace at 896 sites.Yet, new sites, ad...

Asphalt Carries Weight of Burgeoning Roads in U.S.

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Pete Sigmund - What material carries most of the nation’s cars and trucks, is a multi-million-dollar equipment market, is America’s most recycled product, and can be “hot-mixed” in hundreds of combinations for smoother rides and longer-lasting highways?The answer, of course, is as...

China’s Surge Turns Nation Into Massive Construction Site

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Pete Sigmund - Construction is roaring ahead in China, the world’s fastest-growing economy.The exploding market, with great potential for multi-million-dollar contracts, includes all sectors, from highways, bridges and dams, to offices, factories and hotels, changing the face of the nation.T...

Growing Use of Concrete Becomes Too Big for This Planet

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Pete Sigmund - (Editor’s note: “CEG” will provide a similar in-depth article on asphalt in an upcoming issue.)It’s being considered as the main material for the first structures on the moon.Several million tons of it have gone into the construction of New York City’s ...

Steep Steel Prices Stun Contractors

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Pete Sigmund - A startling and continuing rise in steel prices, caused partly by shortages of materials resulting from surging production in China, is sending shock waves through the United States and worldwide construction industries.Prices for all types of steel, for heavy highway, bridge and building ...

Bush, Congress Spar Over TEA-21 Bill

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Pete Sigmund - New highway and bridge projects, thousands of jobs, stimulating the economy, relief of traffic congestion and other priorities hang in the balance as the Bush Administration and Congress wrestle over reauthorizing a new six-year highway and mass transit bill.The White House has proposed a ...

A Behind the Scenes Look at State DOTs

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Pete Sigmund - Out of the sight and mind of most taxpayers, important construction projects affecting their futures are being decided in a demanding, exciting and sometimes frustrating world of costs, schedules, deadlines and the unexpected. This is the contract process –– deciding who work...

Epic 1903 Journey Ushers in Automotive Age

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Pete Sigmund - A lone open “horseless carriage,” holding two men and a bulldog — that wears goggles — lurches, stops, coughs and burps, on a rutted dirt road. It’s America, 1903. The Winton open touring car, piled high with cans of fuel, block and tackle, tents, blankets, f...