Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed May 24, 2023
Ames Takes Lead on $180M Iowa DOT West Broadway Project
As one of the largest highway funding efforts by the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT), the Council Bluffs Interstate System Improvement Program continues reaching milestones. Crews on the multi-phased undertaking are currently focused on segments four and five, which include the I-29/I-480/West Broadway System Interchange project and Madison Avenue interchange reconstruction....
CDOT - Tue April 04, 2023
Ames Construction Replacing Oldest Bridge in Colorado
Construction has started to replace the Alameda Avenue (Colorado Highway 26) bridge over the South Platte River, a project designed to improve safety for drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians. Originally constructed in 1911 and widened in 1966, it is the oldest bridge on the state highway system....
Kansas Department of Transportation - Wed October 12, 2022
Kansas DOT Selects 69Express Project Design-Build Team
The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) has selected US69 Express Constructors to build 69Express, the state's first express lanes, on U.S. 69 in Overland Park. This project, part of the Eisenhower Legacy Transportation Program (IKE), will be delivered using design-build, which allows construction to start quickly....
Dick Rohland – CEG Correspondent - Wed June 08, 2022
MnDOT Untangles Can of Worms
Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) designers opened the proverbial "Can of Worms" when they began designing a new road alignment for a busy, high-volume interchange connecting three major highways in Duluth, Minn....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed April 20, 2022
Ames Completes Critical $134M Arizona Project
If you like fresh produce, you are going to love this Arizona road-building story. Approximately 370,000 trucks crossed the U.S. border at Nogales in 2021, carrying some $30 billion in goods, including much of the winter produce consumed in the United States....
Dick Rohland – CEG Correspondent - Wed July 21, 2021
Ames Oversees $129M Minneapolis Bridge Rehab
It has been a workhorse of a bridge standing the test of time over the last five generations as motor vehicle traffic continued to evolve and drastically increase in numbers. Without doubt, this is due to the engineers who designed it and the contractor who built it at a time when, just a few years earlier, the horse and carriage could still be seen on city streets....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 15, 2021
Farmington Bay Constructors Begin 750M Project
With a population growth of nearly 20 percent since 2010, Utah is busy attempting to meet the transportation demands that come with that growth. The latest highway construction project is the West Davis Corridor, a 16-mi., $750-million project that will see the construction of a four-lane divided highway in western Davis County stretching between I-15 and Legacy Parkway junction in Farmington and S.R....
Dick Rohland – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 28, 2021
End in Sight On 12-Mile Road Repair Project in Minnesota
Construction crews are well on their way to rejuvenate and bring new energy to an aging stretch of interstate highway running north out of Minneapolis. Clearing and grubbing operations for this 12-mi....
CEG - Tue March 23, 2021
Tandem Crews Take Home 2020 Project of Year Honor
The joint venture of Ames Construction and Wadsworth Brothers Construction were recently honored by the Associated General Contractors of Utah with the 2020 Project of the Year, Overall Highway/Transportation, for its work on the I-15 Technology Corridor from Lehi Main Street to SR 92....
AZDOT - Wed December 30, 2020
Ames Construction Crews Replacing Arizona's U.S. 60 Pinto Creek Bridge
Crews from Ames Construction, along with the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), are replacing the Pinto Creek Bridge, located on U.S. 60 about 6 mi....
