Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu June 20, 2019
Rhode Island's Newport Bridge Turns 50
In the late 1960s, college student Michael Gallogly spent two summers working as an oiler on the Newport Bridge. A half-century later, he recalls in vivid detail the men he encountered, including one Native American ironworker who stood on the barge's steel deck in front of the engine shacks....
Romona Paden – CEG Correspondent - Wed June 19, 2019
Oil, Gas Surge Spurs West Texas Road Work
As the oil and gas industry in West Texas continues to roar, the heavy activity of energy exploration and production translates to a constant flow of 80,000-lb. trucks traversing the roads in the state's Permian Basin....
Colorado DOT - Wed June 19, 2019
CDOT Makes Decision to Re-Route Road Around Massive 'Memorial Rock'
Instead of demolishing and hauling away an 8.5-million-pound boulder that contributed to the destruction of a section of Colorado Highway 145 between Cortez and Telluride on May 26, the Colorado Department of Transportation is instead going to re-route the roadway around it — and save $200,000 in the process, according to news reports....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue June 18, 2019
State OKs Funding for I-17 Flex Lanes
With planned Interstate 17 flex lanes between Black Canyon City and Sunset Point set for construction starting by 2021, the state budget provides the additional funding needed to also complete widening I-17 south of where the flex system will be built....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue June 18, 2019
ADOT SMF Update: Construction Progresses Along 59th Avenue
With all bridge girders in place, frontage road construction under way and an overpass built over railroad tracks, among other milestones, Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway construction continues advancing along the 59th Avenue alignment south of Interstate 10 (Papago Freeway) in west Phoenix....
Business Wire - Tue June 18, 2019
TxDOT Awards Sterling $33M Kaufman Highway Project
Sterling Construction Company Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Texas Sterling Construction Co. , was selected by the Texas Department of Transportation to reconstruct an 8-mi. portion of Texas State Highway 34 near Kaufman, Texas....
Fluor Corporation - Tue June 18, 2019
Fluor JV Wins $1.7B I-635 LBJ East Infrastructure Project
Fluor Corporation announced that the Fluor-led joint venture company composed of Fluor and Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc. was selected by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to design and construct the I-635 LBJ East Project in Dallas....
Fri June 14, 2019
'The Yellowhammer State' Highway Project Lettings
The Alabama State Department of Transportation received bids for transportation-related improvement projects. Following is a list of some of the projects let. County: HoustonContract ID: 20190125003Project: Additional lanes....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed June 12, 2019
Work Continues on Final Section of I-69 Project
Work on the last section of an Indiana interstate project is underway. With an estimated cost of $1.5 billion, the 27-mi. I-69 Interstate extension to connect Indianapolis to Evansville is the most expensive of all six sections, coming with a price tag more expensive than all the previous five sections combined....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Mon June 10, 2019
Long-Awaited Project Begins in Western Maryland
A long-awaited design-build project has finally begun near Grantsville, Md., which is in Garrett County, the western-most part of the state. The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) project involves the realignment of U.S....
