Fri October 14, 2005
Caterpillar Unleashes H Series on Press at Aurora Plant
Caterpillar officially introduced its H Series wheel loaders, wheel dozers, compactors and work tools at a press event at its plant in Aurora, IL. The plant, situated on 370 acres, was built in 1958 and employs some 2,900 workers....
Kate Zanoni - Thu October 06, 2005
MA Construction Firm Makes Rare Expansion Into Blasting
Over the past 60 years, the construction firm John J. Paonessa Company Inc. in Massachusetts has had a “blast” working in the industry. The company, which services northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, has expanded its business from municipal and roadwork to large commercial and residential site work, including drilling and blasting....
Gwenyth Laird Pernie - Fri September 30, 2005
New Equipment Makes Debut at Highway 74 Site
An improved piece of iron made its national debut this spring at the U.S. 74 highway project in Robeson County, NC. According to Terry Moore, of R.W. Moore Equipment Company, headquartered in Raleigh, NC, the John Deere 210 rubber-tired excavator was selected for this project because of the large job site and the machine’s ability to set jersey barriers and pipes and dig trenches....
Kate Zanoni - Thu September 08, 2005
Athletic Field Services and Ehrbar Tear Up Some Turf
Years ago, Jon Sweeney, president of Athletic Field Services, turned his love for sports into a career when he constructed his first ballpark for St. Luke’s High School in New Canaan, CT. By the completion of that first job, he knew that he had found his niche....
Bonnie L. Quick - Thu September 01, 2005
Interstate 95 Improvements Part of $400 Million ’Mobility 2000’ Project
As with most of the Interstate 95 corridor in Florida, changes and upgrades need to take place periodically in order to keep up with the steady population growth, the growing traffic flow, the damage from tropical storms and hurricanes and general heat and moisture damage that plague all Florida roadways....
Brenda Ruggiero - Mon August 29, 2005
$12M Job Expands Arlington National Cemetery by 40 Acres
Our nation’s military burial ground is in the midst of a needed expansion project. A total of 26,000 graves are being added to the current 215,000 graves at the 200-acre Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA....
Brenda Ruggiero - Tue August 02, 2005
McAninch Makes Over Missouri’s Route 60
Since February of 2002, Iowa-based McAninch Corporation has worked on three consecutive contracts involving the reconstruction of Route 60 in southern Missouri. The dollar amount for the entire project totals more than $48.5 million with funding coming from the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) and federal sources....
Kate Zanoni - Fri July 22, 2005
John Deere Machines Keep Laser Construction on Target
Fifteen years ago, Gary Klein and Mark Ellickson initially struggled to find work as they began their own construction company, Laser Construction Inc., in Lemont, IL. The two had been working in large construction together since the 1970s....
Jennifer Rupp - Tue June 28, 2005
Trumbull Leads $93M Rehab of ’Burgh’s I-79
Remember lava lamps and Archie Bunker? After more than 30 years, these pop icons have become outdated, just as the 5.8-mi. (9.3 km) stretch of Interstate 79 North near Pittsburgh has. Original construction of this highway began in the late ’60s and was completed in 1972....
Kate Zanoni - Mon June 13, 2005
Quality Grows From Single ’Tonka’ to Fleet of New Hollands
When William Hammersmith founded his business, Quality Construction, his friends mocked his small excavator by referring to it as a “Tonka.” Twenty-one years ago, before his son, Tony, and his wife, Lisa, joined the firm, Hammersmith started out humbly with just one employee — himself....
