Matt Matusek - Fri June 23, 2006
Sales Team Trained on Compact Machines, Attachments
Briggs Equipment held a training session in Charlotte, NC, for its eight new north region compact equipment salesmen May 10. “Compact equipment makes up about 53 percent of all units sold,” said Rob Jordan, compact equipment sales manager of Briggs....
Angela B. Hurni - Tue June 20, 2006
E.V. Williams Invades Battlefield Blvd.
One of the worst traffic predicaments on Interstate 64 in Chesapeake, VA, should be improved by July 2009. The I-64/Battlefield Boulevard interchange has long been a motorist’s worst nightmare because of its close proximity to the Greenbrier Parkway interchange, creating merging difficulties amid high-speed traffic....
Mon June 19, 2006
Volvo Excavator, Cab Production Heading to Asheville, NC
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) will begin building excavators and excavator and wheel loader cabs at its Asheville, NC, manufacturing facility. The company plans to invest, initially, $25 million with a possible additional $30 million over the next few years to increase its fabrication and assembly capabilities to meet growing requirements in the excavator market in North America....
Jennifer Rupp - Tue June 13, 2006
I-80 Job on Track, Despite Undercutting
The 7-mi. (11.3 km) refurbishment of I-80 between Yarnell and Bellefonte in Pennsylvania is running on schedule, despite extensive undercutting because of clay and other fine materials. The project began on Feb....
Brian Kern - Mon June 05, 2006
Sound Barriers Added to Sawgrass Expressway
Concrete noise wall panels are being lowered and locked into place between H-post after H-post along an approximately 7-mi. stretch of Southwest Florida’s Sawgrass Expressway. The Sawgrass, a section of the 312-mi....
Fri June 02, 2006
Demolition Crew Scraps Deserted Utah Steel Town
In January 2004, Grant Mackay Demolition won the largest contract in all demolitiondom, the dismantling of Geneva Steel in nearby Orem, UT. Geneva is an aged metropolis of 1,800 acres of gray- and rust-colored metal, concrete and I-beams....
Dawn Weinberger - Tue May 30, 2006
Nuclear Power Plant Goes Up in Smoke
Ten years into a decommissioning process that will likely continue for two more decades, the Trojan Nuclear Plant cooling tower in Rainer, OR, was imploded at 7 a.m. on May 21. Crowds of onlookers, including a large constituency of former plant employees, watched from a dock in Kalama, WA, directly across the Columbia River from the plant....
Jeff McGaw - Thu June 01, 2006
State Line Machine Celebrates 40 Years in Business
When heavy equipment fails and costly downtime looms, someone must be available to repair diesel engines or hydraulic systems, weld, or rebuild undercarriages. Fulton S. Owensby recognized this fact in the early 1960s and sought to be that person....
Fran Foran - Wed May 31, 2006
EastCoast Reduces Fuel Consumption While Juggling 14 Jobs
EastCoast General Contractors Inc., a large general contractor based in Massachusetts, is a juggler. Just as a juggler is able to manipulate several objects and keep them in motion, so too can EastCoast Contractors keep several projects in motion at the same time....
David S. Chartock - Mon May 29, 2006
Made-to-Order Rigs Key to $150M Dey Street Job
Two Davey Kent model 515 mini-pile drilling rigs and a Bauer BG-40 from Germany were all made-to-order rigs to meet the construction challenges of the $150-million Dey Street Concourse structural box project now under way in lower Manhattan....
