CEG - Thu August 27, 2020
To Ease Street Flooding, Birmingham Begins Improvements to Viaduct
The city of Birmingham, Ala., has started fixing a dangerous problem spot on its south side. The 6th Avenue South CSX Viaduct is in a flood-prone area and cars and trucks passing underneath it have dealt with high water at the intersection for years....
Alabama Power - Thu August 27, 2020
$500M Electric Arc Furnace to Be Built in Mobile County, Alabama
A $500 million electric arc furnace at the AM/NS Calvert Mill in Mobile County, Ala., is expected to add 300 jobs and a major new capability for the former ThyssenKrupp plant. ArcelorMittal, which now operates the facility in a partnership with Nippon Steel Corp., has announced plans to add the electric arc furnace, or EAF, capable of producing 1.5 million metric tons of steel annually....
CEG - Wed August 26, 2020
John Soules Foods Manufacturing Plant Being Constructed in Alabama
Construction began in August on a John Soules Foods plant that will process value-added poultry and beef products in Valley, Ala. Work on the new plant had been delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic....
Yellowhammer News - Wed August 26, 2020
Proposed $250M Project Would Include Alabama's Tallest Building
A massive new development is being proposed for downtown Birmingham, Ala., that would encompass 1.2 million sq. ft. and cost around a quarter of a billion dollars. The project, which is being called The Block, would have a centerpiece 48-story high rise development called the Dansby Tower....
ALL Crane - Wed August 19, 2020
Five-Crane Pick Sets Lumberyard's New Circular Crane
We already know that when you need to pick and set large building materials, you get a crane. But what if the item you need to pick and set also is a crane?You'll need a crane in that instance, too — although it might take more than one....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Mon August 10, 2020
ALDOT Plans Twin Bridges Over U.S. 231 Landslide
A dramatic combination of large pavement cracks and an underground landslide on U.S. Highway 231 near Huntsville, Ala., in the early morning hours of Feb. 13 prompted an immediate closure of roughly 1,000 ft....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed August 05, 2020
Granting an Extension — ALDOT's U.S.-98/SR-158 Project Takes Shape
Work on the estimated $115 million U.S.-98/SR-158 Extension Project in Ala. began in September 2017 and is expected to be completed by 2023. Thus far the DOT has awarded four of the seven contracts for the road and bridge infrastructure construction that is taking place in Mobile County....
Alabama AGC - Wed August 05, 2020
Alabama AGC Donates High Tech Simulator to Local Skills Trade Academy
Alabama Associated General Contractors, Alabama AGC, is helping pave the way for the construction industry's future. In 2019, Alabama AGC held a significant role in launching the Hoover city school system's Skills Trade Academy at the Riverchase Career Connection Center (RC3), a program designed to advance youth education and fill worker shortages in the construction industry....
Shelby County Reporter - Wed August 05, 2020
Lane Expansion on Alabama's I-65 Happening South of Birmingham
An Interstate 65 expansion project that involves planning, overlay and re-striping from the Shelby County Route 52 overpass to the south end of the Cahaba River Bridge in Alabama began in early July, with a completion target set for the late fall of 2020....
Gadsden Times - Mon August 03, 2020
Road, Bridge Upgrades on Route 68 Under Way in Eastern Alabama
Motorists who regularly must travel on Alabama Route 68 between Sand Rock and Leesburg will benefit from a construction/upgrade now in progress. Summer work on the road project began in June. The highway site between the two communities is situated on a north-south line in Cherokee County in northeastern Alabama, just west of the Georgia state line....
