Caroline Marston & Jamie Smith - SPECIAL TO CEG - Thu April 30, 2020
Stability in Charlotte for Hoopaugh Grading Company
After over six-and-a-half decades of experience, Hoopaugh Grading Company LLC has worked to develop a few ways to help grow and thrive despite unexpected external conditions. The current health crisis facing our state [North Carolina], nation and world is certainly intimidating....
East Attachments - Thu April 30, 2020
East Attachments Offers Wide Array of Buckets, Rakes
East Attachments is a national provider of heavy equipment attachments. The company's products are manufactured for the construction and mining industries, but also cater to private operators in farming and other private industries....
UMA - Mon April 20, 2020
UMA Geotechnical Construction Earns SDVOSB and NC HUB Designations
UMA, a North Carolina-based geotechnical contractor serving the Mid-Atlantic Region, announced its newly acquired designations of both Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and North Carolina Historically Underutilized Business (HUB)....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 16, 2020
S.T. Wooten Off to Good Start on I-95 Widening From Raleigh to Fayetteville
The Feb. 9 closure of the Long Branch Road bridge (Exit 71) over Interstate 95, north of Fayetteville (Harnett County), marked the first stage of the North Carolina Department of Transportation's (NCDOT) $404 million project to widen 18 miles of the interstate under a design-build contract awarded to S.T....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed March 25, 2020
Conveyor Belt Speeds Up Fayetteville Outer Loop Progress
Construction on another section of the North Carolina Department of Transportation's (NCDOT) Fayetteville Outer Loop project began last spring — a $129.7 million design-build contract awarded to the Wilmington, N.C.-based team of Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc....
ALL Family of Companies - Wed February 19, 2020
ALL Crane Uses Team Effort to Lift, Set Pedestrian Bridge in North Carolina
Sitting in the cab of his Liebherr LTM 1300-6.2., a 300-ton (272 t) mobile crane, Raymond Gallagher maneuveres a 13-ton pedestrian bridge that will join two buildings. But he knows he has to rely on a team of people to make the lift successful — because he can't actually see the bridge....
Southern Farm Show - Mon January 27, 2020
Construction Equipment Returns to Southern Farm Show
The Southern Farm Show, set for its 43rd anniversary at the NC State Fairgrounds on Feb. 5 to 7, will again provide an impressive display of construction, forestry and land clearing equipment. The show — which fills the four available exhibit halls, as well as five major temporary exhibit tents, plus acres of outdoor space — is the largest annual trade show of any type to take place in the Carolinas and Virginia....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Mon January 27, 2020
First Phase Under Way to Finally Complete Raleigh's Triangle Expressway
With the goal of reducing the usual heavy traffic around North Carolina's capital city, work has begun to extend a substantial portion of the Triangle Expressway on the southside of Raleigh. Known as the Complete 540 project (and, secondarily, as both the Southeast Extension and N.C....
Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Mon January 13, 2020
Long-Awaited Widening of North Carolina's I-26 Begins
After years of planning, environmental studies and even lawsuits, the North Carolina Department of Transportation is relieved to see the start of a widening project on Interstate 26 between Hendersonville and Asheville....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Thu December 26, 2019
Raising a Bridge That's Set Too Low for Traffic
Its proper name is the North Carolina Railroad Overpass (NCRR) or the Gregson Street Bridge, but locals in Durham just called it the "can opener," a moniker that grew from its impact on trucks and RVs too tall to fit beneath the 11-ft., 8-inch structure....
