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Angela B. Hurni - Mon July 14, 2003

C.C. Mangum Bulls Through Dry Shot Rock for NC Development

The Park at Southpoint, a mixed-use development, is currently under construction in Durham, NC. Developer/owner David Johnson hired C.C. Mangum Contractors LLC, as the general contractor for the project, which will cost approximately $9 million....

Tracy Carbasho - Fri July 11, 2003

Urban Diamond SC Interchange Project Sparkles

A $16-million urban diamond configuration project will improve the traffic flow at the U.S. 378 and I-26 interchange in Lexington County, SC. The project, which began in January and is slated for completion in October 2004, consists of a bridge replacement and interchange modifications in West Columbia....

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)....

Fri June 27, 2003

JWB Acquisition Purchases Assets of J.W. Burress Inc.

JWB Acquisition Inc. has purchased the assets of J.W. Burress Inc., a large mid-Atlantic equipment distributor from American Equipment Company, a subsidiary of Fluor Corporation headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA....

Tracy Carbasho - Thu June 19, 2003

Rockslides, Heavy Volume Spur Widening of Major WV Artery

Workers are literally “between a rock and a hard place’’ as they proceed with a multimillion-dollar project to widen the primary roadway through the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia. “We’re taking a sliver cut off a one-mile long hillside....

Gini and Dan McKain - Fri June 13, 2003

Link-Belt Helps Crews Ace Pasco County School Project

It’s seldom that you’ll encounter an endangered bird species confronting you in the middle of a paved public highway. But, that is exactly what happened at the construction site of a new public elementary school in Pasco County, FL. Several pair of Sandhill Cranes decided to avail themselves of one of the retention ponds that had been excavated at the site....

Mark Hoffman - Tue June 10, 2003

Capital Reopens Collapsed I-80 Span in 24 Hours

Holidays wreak havoc on the highways of Nebraska. Just ask Les O’Donnell, spokesman for District 6 of the Cornhuskers’ State Department of Roads. Last Fourth of July, torrential rains washed out the approaches to two bridges on Interstate 80, closing the nation’s busiest highway for a week while repairs were made. Last week, a bridge over Interstate 80 near Big Springs collapsed when a semi-trailer slammed into it, killing the driver....

Lori Lovely - Mon June 02, 2003

Palmetto Digs Into Florence, SC, Widening Job

Since the first of the year, Palmetto Paving has been trying to push forward with a road-widening project in Florence, SC. Unfortunately, Mother Nature has been pushing back. “It’s been the wettest winter in 10 years,” chuckled Project Manager Carl Rabon....

Wed June 04, 2003

Giles & Ransome Touts Cat Certified Operator Training

Today’s construction equipment has changed and Giles & Ransome is committed to offering its customers the benefit of training. Training can increase employee satisfaction while increasing safety and productivity. Research and development have led to technological advancements in the design aspects of earthmoving equipment....