Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue July 12, 2022
Crews Demolish Medical Campus
JR Demolition and Excavation Inc. completed the demolition of former building that housed the Medical City Behavioral Health services of the Wysong Hospital campus in McKinney, Texas. The rectangular-shaped five-story structure (no basement) had a two-story wing and other smaller structures on the north side....
Company Wrench - Wed July 06, 2022
VIDEO: Casey-Bertram Begins Demolition of Distribution Center
The day after a March fire engulfed a large distribution center, local authorities called Casey-Bertram to provide immediate support to the fire department. The Indianapolis-based demolition contractor traveled to Plainfield, Ind., to drag semi-truck trailers away from the 1.1 million sq.-ft....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed July 06, 2022
Kansas City's Buck O'Neil Bridge Replacement
With a third of the work already completed, construction crews continue making progress on the Buck O'Neil Bridge replacement project in Kansas City, Mo. The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is overseeing the effort, which called for the demolition of multiple buildings, six retaining/barrier walls and four bridges, and pavement removals....
CEG - Tue June 28, 2022
Flatiron, Lane Construction Demolish Bridge in Bellevue
The joint venture of Flatiron and Lane Construction have made considerable progress on one of the largest construction projects in the Puget Sound region. Crews demolished the Main Street Bridge in Bellevue, Wash., across Interstate 405, over the weekend of June 17 as part of the $705 million I-405, Renton to Bellevue Widening and Express Toll Lanes Project....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Mon May 23, 2022
Jackson Demolition Razes Meat Packaging Plant in Albany
By June or July, Jackson Demolition Service Inc. expects to complete the demolition of the former Tobin's First Prize Center meat packaging plant in a now residential neighborhood of Albany, N.Y. The plant was located on a 30-acre site, which had 10 buildings on 10 acres....
CEG - Wed May 04, 2022
ESI … Responding to All Types of Emergency Environmental Issues
Environmental Services Inc. (ESI) is a full-service environmental contractor providing planned and emergency services to private customers and governmental agencies throughout southern New England. Founded in 1991, it is the largest privately held environmental services company in the area, with a staff of more than 70 employees, including project managers, supervisors, compliance and regulatory personnel, equipment operators, craftsmen, field technicians with decades of experience in emergency response and remediation, hazardous waste management and backgrounds in the petroleum and construction industries....
Dick Rohland – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 27, 2022
Despite Supply Delays, Construction of New Multi-Housing Unit On Schedule
On a tight, little urban corner surrounded by high volume city arterials and commercial properties in St. Paul, Minn., construction continues a six story, 220-unit apartment building. To make room for the new complex on the 1.2-acre site, a U.S....
New York YIMBY - Tue April 26, 2022
Demolition Nears Completion at Site of New 43-Story Tower in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Demolition is almost complete at 356 Fulton Street, the site of a 43-story mixed-use tower in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y. When the site is cleared, construction will begin on the planned 496-ft.-tall skyscraper — one that will yield 475,000 sq....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 21, 2022
Bette & Cring to Complete Critical Bridge Replacement
The $11.8 million reconstruction of the New York State Department of Transportation's (NYSDOT) State Route 8 Bridge over State Routes 5 and 12 in the city of Utica began in mid-March 2021 and should be delivered by Bette & Cring LLC (B&C) in fall 2022....
Joe Jancsurak – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed April 20, 2022
Demolition Challenges Call for Deep Dives From Crews
A ginormous concrete dock, the main component of a $57.3 million federally funded project, will soon become a part of the historic Port of Beaumont's Main Terminal, the nation's fourth busiest commercial port, but not before the collapsed century-old dock is demolished and removed, a task that requires a "creative and collaborative approach," according to Robert Wood, project manager of McCarthy Building Companies in Houston, the project's general contractor and nation's fifth largest port and marine builder....
