Sat April 02, 2016
Excavation Company Hits a Home Run with Pitbull Screeners
The project for R. Sluis Excavating came out of left field seven years ago. For over 30 years, the Oak Forest, Ill., company focused on commercial and residential excavating; so developing an 87-acre sports complex was something new....
Thu April 21, 2016
Indiana Highway Officials Reject Bill for Emergency I-65 Bridge Work
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Indiana highway officials have rejected a $1.4 million bill from a construction company for repairing an Interstate 65 bridge that faced a monthlong emergency closure last summer. Walsh Construction Co....
Thu April 21, 2016
Iowa Panel Says Construction Can
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) State utility regulators have deemed that construction can begin on the Bakken oil pipeline in Iowa as soon as federal permits are obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and two other plans are filed....
Irwin Rapoport - Thu April 21, 2016
Jane Byrne Interchange Reaches Midway Point
The reconstruction of the Circle Interchange (I-90/94 at I-290) in downtown Chicago — renamed the Jane Byrne Interchange after the former mayor of Chicago who passed away in 2014, has reached the midway point....
Thomas Barlas - The Press of Atlantic City - Wed April 20, 2016
Historic Preservation Can Turn Into Economic Preservation
NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) The fame of North Wildwood's landmark Lollipop Motel has reached all the way to the land Down Under, making the front page of an Australian newspaper just a few years ago....
Tue April 19, 2016
Lower Shore Resurfacing Projects Under Way in Maryland
The Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration (SHA) is resurfacing two major highways on the lower eastern shore. Work is under way on westbound U.S. 50 (Ocean Gateway) between White Richardson Road and Walston Switch Road just east of Salisbury in Wicomico County....
Lori Lovely - Mon April 18, 2016
Bittersweet: Chocolate Factory Razed in N.Y.
For more than 100 years, just before a rain, the scent of chocolate perfumed the air in Fulton, a small city in the western part of Oswego County, N.Y., 25 mi. (40.23 km) north of Syracuse. That's because it was home to the central New York plant that produced Nestlé chocolate products for more than a century....
Fri April 15, 2016
South Coast Improvement Lands Renovation Project
South Coast Improvement Company (SCI), a design-build general contractor serving New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, recently began a renovation project at Brightview Country Club Heights, an independent and assisted living facility located at 3 Rehabilitation Way in Woburn, Mass....
Thu April 14, 2016
Harvard Kennedy School Plans Improvements to Campus
Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is moving forward with the planning and design of significant changes and additions to its campus to enhance its mission. These will create new spaces for teaching and learning, upgrade the central courtyard as a campus amenity, and improve campus cohesion and circulation with greater pedestrian connections to Harvard Square and the Charles River....
Chuck Harvey - Fri April 15, 2016
Vermont's $60M I-91 Brattleboro Bridge Replacement Project Enters Final Year
Vermont's $60 million I-91 Brattleboro Bridge Replacement Project, now in its third and final year of construction, includes replacement of four aging bridges with two new wider, modern-designed bridges....
