Brenda Ruggiero - Mon July 07, 2003
Oak Contracting Makes the Grade for $27.5M High School in Owings Mills, MD
By the start of the 2003 school year, high school students in the Owings Mills, MD, area will have a brand new school.
Construction of the building is well under way under the direction of Oak Contracting Corporation, Baltimore....
G.W. Hall - Mon June 30, 2003
Contractors Complete Key Phase of 17th Street Bridge
Contractors involved in building Atlanta’s new 17th Street Bridge reached a major milestone recently when they set the last of the structure’s 48 steel beams in place.
“The beam setting operations have been as smooth as we could have imagined,” said Mickey McGee, metro district construction engineer of the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT)....
Mon May 05, 2003
CEG Rocks Cleveland Contractors With 2003 ’Greatest Show in Dirt’
The first really beautiful spring weekend in Cleveland proved to be a good one for Construction Equipment Guide’s Cleveland Construction Expo II. Held at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds on Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12, with more than 50 indoor and outdoor static displays plus almost 20 acres of outdoor demonstration areas, the Cleveland Expo provided something for everyone looking to enhance their equipment inventory or find out more information on a new technology....
James Van Horn - Mon April 28, 2003
Harms ’Quick-Times’ Jersey Interchange Job
Fresh from finishing ahead of schedule on two other giant bridge and viaduct jobs, George Harms Construction Co. Inc., Howell, NJ, has been moving ahead full-steam on another “need-it-done-yesterday” project — a $53-million rehabilitation and construction of a new interchange of Routes 1, 130 and 171 (Georges Road) in North Brunswick, NJ, for the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT).
The job includes 1 mi....
Cindy Riley - Wed April 23, 2003
Crews Transform Birmingham Mall Into Vestavia Center
Developers with AIG Baker have recently transformed an outdated Birmingham, AL, mall into an open-air shopping center that includes a new theater, a Publix supermarket and space for numerous retail shops and restaurants....
Darryl Seland - Tue April 15, 2003
J. A. Taddei, Furnival Solve School Expansion Equation
A $9-million, multi-phase construction project to expand Pennridge High School is under way in Perkasie, PA.
General contractor J.A. Taddei, of King of Prussia, PA, is confident in the success of the three-year project due to the company’s highly organized planning and coordination, the training and knowledge of its employees and its long-time relationship with equipment dealer, Furnival Machinery Company, of Hatfield, PA.
J.A....
Cynthia W. Wright - Wed February 26, 2003
Forty Years, $8B in Projects Will Save FL’s Everglades
Sometimes it all comes together, and a great plan is set in motion. By way of just such an example, restoration of Florida’s Everglades is finally under way.
Dennis Duke, program manager of Everglades Restoration, pointed out that the mammoth undertaking began in July 1999, when the Corp of Army Engineers sent a feasibility study to Congress, which then recommended the federally and state funded $8-billion plan that would require nearly 40 years to implement....
Tue February 25, 2003
C&C Recycles Dredged Soil at Goose Lake, IL
Goose Lake in Lake in the Hills, IL, was completely filled with sedimentation in excess of 180,000 cu. yds. (137,620 cu m). The lake, approximately 12 acres (4.9 ha) in size, acted as a natural silt trap for the Crystal Creek watershed....
Brenda Ruggiero - Wed February 05, 2003
$122M Siemens Fuel-Cell Factory Powers Toward Summer Wrap-up
A $122-million fuel cell factory for Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp. currently is under construction in the Pittsburgh, PA, township of Munhall on the Monongahela River. The site was chosen in Sept. 2001, winning out over eight cities, including Orlando, FL, and Ft....
James Van Horn - Tue December 03, 2002
Modern Continental Reclaims ’Lost’
Tucked away in a remote corner of Brooklyn, NY, Modern Continental Construction is moving approximately 2.5 million cu. yd. (1.9 million cu m) of material in one of the largest such jobs in the Northeast, and probably the most unusual — it’s all fill and no cut....
