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| | | | | | | Thursday, September 02, 2010 | 9:46:13 PM
Sunbelt Performs Largest Cap Pour in Ga.’s History
A fast growing Gwinnett County has prompted the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners to build a 6 mi. extension of the Sugarloaf Parkway in an attempt to reduce commuter traffic congestion.
Sunbelt Structures of Tucker, Ga., specializes in all components of interstate highway interchange construction. Awarded the $21 million contract by the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners, Sunbelt began work in mid-February 2009 with an anticipated completion date of early 2011. The complete project consists of a new interchange, a four-lane highway, three new bridges, and dozens of reinforced earth walls and box culverts.
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New >>MacAllister Machinery Signs Mirenco Dealer Agreement
MacAllister Machinery Inc., the Caterpillar dealer for northern and central Indiana, has signed an agreement with Whayne Supply to be a Mirenco dealer.
Whayne Supply is the national distributor for Mirenco products and diesel combustion testing.
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National Gateway Project Breaks Ground in Ohio
More than $842 million in public and private sector funds have been committed to projects that will improve existing, and build new, rail infrastructure and intermodal capacities across six states.
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Transportation, Business Community Coalitions Join Forces to Push for Action on Overdue Highway, Transit Bill
“Sick of Aging Roads? Sick of Bus Delays? Sick of Congestion? —Tell Congress to Act!”
Those are the messages appearing on highway billboard and print ads in key states, and being delivered by thousands of grassroots activists who are urging Congress to complete work on the long overdue, multi-year highway/transit authorization bill.
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JCB Pledges $250,000 Worth of Support for Pakistani Flood Victims
JCB Chairman Sir Anthony Bamford today pledged assistance worth $250,000 to help in the reconstruction effort in the wake of the devastating floods in Pakistan.
He is donating two high specification 4CX backhoe loaders with attachments to the stricken country where the worst floods in decades have left millions people homeless and where rebuilding costs are expected to be in the region of $17 billion.
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Case Sponsors Annual National Gas Rodeo
Case Construction Equipment is sponsoring the 16th Annual National Gas Rodeo. The competition will be held Sept. 17 to 18, 2010, in Fairview Heights, Ill. Case will be the exclusive provider of construction equipment for the event, which includes backhoe loader and compact excavators.
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CEG Special Feature Report
Managing Key to a Firm’s Emergence From a Recession
Author: Giles Lambertson
(Editor’s note: This article is the final installment in a series on the nation’s and world’s current economic conditions. Over the past several weeks, Construction Equipment Guide (CEG) interviewed experts in economics and business, and even psychology, and reported on how the industry veterans are coping, and in some instances, succeeding in this downturn.
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This Month in Profile Publications - New York State's exclusive magazine for Municipal Equipment
Superintendent of Highways Kathy Kinsella and the Town of Rhinebeck
In case you didn’t know it, Kathy Kinsella is unique. As highway superintendent of the town of Rhinebeck she is a member of a select group of individuals. Kathy is one of only six female supers out of the more than 1,000 in New York State.
Born and raised in the Bronx, Kathy jokingly credits her brothers for her desire to go after such a position. “They always told me to go play in the traffic.