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Volvo Equipment Pushes Through $6M Complex Project
South of Boston, in Weymouth, MA, a 330-unit apartment complex spread over 29 acres (11.7 ha) is taking shape on a 52-acre (21 ha) parcel of land. Weymouth’s Rudy V. Pompeo Inc. has been doing all site excavation, related road construction and utilities at the development, which will be called Avalon Ledges Apartments....
Cat Claws Foundation for Dorney Park’s Talon Coaster
When climbing a 135-ft. lift hill on the Northeast’s tallest inverted roller coaster at speeds of 58 mph, the last thing a rider wants to worry about is whether the foundations are secure. That, according to Keith Malcolm, is part of Semmel Excavating Inc.’s job. Semmel crews did the excavation and backfill work for all 130 foundations for Dorney Park’s newest custom-designed coaster, the Talon, located in Allentown, PA. The preparation work for the Talon, which was completed for the 2001 park season, included the removal of pre-existing rides and blacktop, relocating utilities, building berms and grading slopes for the ride. In 1999, leaving nothing to chance on the 3-million-lb....
Cat 320 Lifts Marine Limestone Out Of Chesapeake Bay
A donated track excavator has played an important role in the development of Maryland’s first ecological sanctuary this past summer. Located on 1.2 acres (.48 ha) of private land in the Nanticoke River in Wicomico County, the $80,000 experimental project uses marine limestone as an alternative substrate for restoring oyster reefs....
Corman Reconstructs Baltimore’s Reistertown Road Bridge
Baltimore’s Corman Construction Inc. is gaining first-hand experience in creating an urban diamond interchange at Interstate 695 and MD 140 in Baltimore County. Although new to this particular area, this type of interchange has been used in more than 20 states to manage heavy traffic since the 1970s....
Capital District’s Economy Grows Suburban Contracting
The Capital District of New York has had a strong economy for the past several years, which has benefited area companies such as Suburban Contracting and Development Corporation. The company is a land development contractor that purchases area land, site clears it and develops is so that it is suitable for area builders to construct homes on or develops land under contract owned directly by area home builders....
GPS Guides Halverson Through Roseville Bypass Job
Construction of a new highway bypass around Roseville, IL, may constitute routine work for Halverson Construction Company, but the firm is taking advantage of new technology to get the job done more efficiently. The $18-million bypass is a 5-mi....
Bodine Eases Demolition of DePaul Hospital in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin demolition expert charged with the job of tearing down the old Milwaukee DePaul Hospital has found the addition of a hydraulic thumb to his excavator has made the task a lot easier. In fact, “without my hydraulic thumb, my excavator would be useless for the pick-up and sorting of demolition debris,” claimed Troy Mews, president and owner of Tylor Co....
Blythe Eliminates Bottlenecks With $48M Raleigh, NC, Project
U.S. Census Bureau numbers out this spring only confirmed what every general contractor in the Southeast region knew: There is plenty of highway construction opportunity in Raleigh, NC. The state capital and the county surrounding it comprise one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the country....
Ritchie Brothers Hits Cleveland With Unreserved Sale
Ritchie Brothers held an unreserved public auction on Friday, Nov. 16, in Middleburg Heights (Cleveland), OH. The sale featured a variety of equipment, including a 1998 Caterpillar 330B excavator and a 1997 Komatsu D38E-1 dozer....
Road Widening Scheme Cheats Traffic Deaths on IA330, U.S. 65
A 26-mi. (41.6 km) stretch of highway in central Iowa that links Des Moines to Marshalltown is the site of a top priority highway construction effort. The affected avenues are IA 330 and US 65, which run concurrent with each other for approximately 4 mi....
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