Caltrans - Wed January 16, 2019
CTC OKs $600M for Transportation Infrastructure, Rail, Local Projects
The California Transportation Commission (CTC) allocated more than $600 million in funding for hundreds of transportation projects, which includes $80 million from SB 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017....
Chuck Harvey – CEG Correspondent - Wed January 16, 2019
Crews Prepare L.A.'s Parker Center Building for Demolition
Construction crews have started demolition work to make way for $708M new office building on the site of the old Parker Center building in Los Angeles. The international-style structure designed by Welton Becket and Associates, once served as the headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Department....
Caltrans - Wed January 16, 2019
Caltrans Studies How Climate Change Affects Highway System
Caltrans has released two Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments as part of an effort to understand how and where climate change may impact the state highway system. The new reports for Northern California and the Central Valley continue the department's efforts to assess all regions of the state....
United States Department of Agriculture - Wed January 16, 2019
USDA Invests $449M in California Water Supply Innovations
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing more than $449 million to help build an innovative water management system that will increase the reliability of the California water supply and create more than 560 jobs in the Sacramento Valley....
Bejac Corporation - Mon January 07, 2019
Bejac Corporation Aids in California Fire Cleanup
Disaster struck California this year as devastating wild fires swept through towns and cities, leaving historic destruction in their wake. But the building began as soon as the fires were out. Bejac Corporation was on hand to help, working with trusted contractors and deploying Link-Belt machines to help hard hit areas move forward....
National Trench Safety - Mon January 07, 2019
National Trench Safety Opens Santa Rosa, Calif., Location
National Trench Safety LLC (NTS), a Houston-based company specializing in the rental and sales of trench and traffic safety equipment, trench and traffic safety engineering, and OSHA- compliant training classes, announced the opening of a new branch operation in Santa Rosa, Calif....
U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Wed December 26, 2018
CBP Announces Border Wall Contract Awards
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), has awarded a contract to construct up to 14 miles of secondary wall and up to 15 miles of primary pedestrian replacement wall in California within the U.S....
Chuck Harvey – CEG Correspondent - Wed December 19, 2018
$631M Interchange Under Way on I-5
A $631M project is considered as a big step toward reducing traffic on Interstate 5 in southern Los Angeles and northern Orange counties. Known as the Valley View Avenue Interchange Project, work is centered in La Mirada and spans 1.5 mi....
Orange County Transportation Authority - Wed December 19, 2018
OCTA Plans for $43B Investment in Transportation
The Orange County Transportation Authority Board of Directors has approved a $43.4 billion plan that will serve as a blueprint for how people move throughout the county for the next two decades and beyond....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed December 19, 2018
Unsung Heroes of California Wildfires
On the morning of Nov. 8, Nolan Merrifield, senior equipment operator of the Butte County, Calif., Public Works Department, headed up into the foothills above Paradise to do some roadwork. Midway there, Merrifield turned and saw a plume of smoke, then he got a call....
