Thu July 06, 2017
Baker-Polito Admin Awards More Than $14M in Green Communities Grants
The Baker-Polito Administration awarded $14,043,257 in Green Communities competitive grants to 72 municipalities across Massachusetts to fund clean energy projects. With this announcement, the largest in the program's seven-year history, the Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has awarded more than $80 million to Green Communities grants since the program's inception....
Thu July 06, 2017
Gilbane Receives Project Team Award for Hartford Hospital
Gilbane Building Company recently was honored by the Connecticut Building Congress (CBC) with a first place Project Team Award in the New Construction category for the Hartford Hospital Bone and Joint Institute project in Hartford, Conn....
Thu July 06, 2017
Skanska Builds New Recreation Center for Boston College
Skanska has signed a contract to build a new recreation center for Boston College in Massachusetts. The contract is worth $113 million, which will be included in the United States order bookings for the second quarter of 2017....
Thu July 06, 2017
Monroe Tractor Acquires Case of New England to Better Serve Customers
Monroe Tractor, a distributor in construction and agriculture equipment in New York state, has acquired Case of New England, a Case dealership in Massachusetts. This acquisition will enhance Monroe's ability to serve the New England construction industry....
Chuck Harvey - Thu July 06, 2017
$30M Overhaul of Gold Star Memorial Bridge in New London, Conn., Begins
A massive $30 million overhaul of the southbound span of the Gold Star Memorial Bridge on I-95 between the Connecticut cities of New London and Groton has begun. The project that kicked off on April 1 is slated to conclude at the end of November 2018....
Thu July 06, 2017
NYPD Bomb Squad Responds to Manhattan Construction Find
The NYPD says an object found at a Manhattan construction site that triggered a response from the NYPD bomb squad was a time capsule. Police say construction crews were digging at a site on West 21st Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues around 1:45 p.m....
Andrew Maykuth - Wed July 05, 2017
Gas-Utility Restoration Boom Triggers Trench Warfare
A hydraulic excavator clawed a 7-foot-deep trench down the center of Lafayette Street in Norristown the other day, creating a void where Rich Brunner's crew was busy installing a 12-inch-diameter natural-gas main....
Fri June 30, 2017
Construction Begins on New Pipeline
Work has begun on laying two natural gas liquids pipelines across 6.5 miles of northern Lancaster County as part of the Mariner East 2 pipeline project. In Lancaster County, the pipeline — highly controversial and contested in some parts of the the state — affects farmland and the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Clay and West Cocalico townships....
Fri June 30, 2017
Gov. Pardons 9/11 Worker From Immigration Detention
NEW YORK (AP) _ A onetime Sept. 11 World Trade Center cleanup volunteer who faces possible deportation over a 1990 drug conviction but was pardoned by the governor was freed from immigration detention on Wednesday....
Jane M. Von Bergen and Bob Fernandez - Wed June 28, 2017
Contract Dispute Slows Work in U.S. City
Construction in Philadelphia and four counties in the Pennsylvania suburbs — on projects as large as the new Comcast tower and as swanky as the Hotel W — is slowing to a halt because the General Building Contractors Association of Philadelphia and the union representing hundreds of crane and heavy-equipment operators have reached an impasse on contract negotiations....
