Lori Tobias - Tue February 23, 2016
Oregon's Highway 20 Moves Forward Despite Problems
Part 1 of a 3-part series: A decade after the design-build contract was first awarded, the end of a project to straighten a dangerous portion of Oregon's U.S. Highway 20 is within sight, with drivers possibly traveling the new stretch as early as fall 2016....
Chuck Harvey - Tue February 23, 2016
San Francisco's Doyle Drive Includes Major Safety Upgrades
ByA $1 billion replacement and upgrade of Doyle Drive in San Francisco came out of necessity: it was structurally and seismically deficient. But the work, now in its second and final phase, also provided an opportunity for project designers to plan major improvements, including an environmentally-friendly design....
Chuck Harvey - Tue February 23, 2016
Work Continues on New San Diego County Central Courthouse
Work is proceeding on a new $555 million, 704,000 sq. ft. (19,935 sq m) Central Courthouse for San Diego County. The Judicial Council of California expects the downtown San Diego building — designed to house 71 courtrooms and stand 22-stories tall — to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2016....
Tue February 23, 2016
Project to Drain Reservoir a Year Behind Schedule
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) The discovery of new “trace faults' near one of the San Francisco Bay area's largest dams has further stalled a $193 million project to strengthen it, pushing back plans for a seismic retrofit to early 2018....
Tue February 23, 2016
Famous Los Angeles Bridge Demolished
LOS ANGELES (AP) Demolition crews brought down a portion of a famed downtown Los Angeles bridge sooner than expected, allowing for the early reopening of a section of U.S. 101 that was closed for much of the weekend of Feb....
Chuck Harvey - Tue February 23, 2016
Crews Work to Fill Interstate Gap Between Vegas, Phoenix
Las Vegas and Phoenix are the only U.S. cities of 1 million or more residents not linked by an interstate freeway. So the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada and Nevada Department of Transportation took the lead in individual phases of a $318 million Nevada Interstate 11 project to connect a gap in existing interstate routes....
Eric Olson - Tue February 16, 2016
Orlando's JMHC Inc. Preparing Local Site for Massive New FedEx Facility
In north Polk County, at the intersection of Interstate 4 and U.S. Highway 27, land is being cleared for a new massive FedEx distribution center. Jim Cooper Construction Company Inc., a general contractor out of Birmingham, Ala., has selected a central Florida site construction firm to do the job....
Lori Tobias - Tue February 16, 2016
Crews Reach Milestone on Northwest Corridor Job
Construction crews recently reached another milestone in Georgia's Northwest Corridor Express Lanes project, completing the placement of five 155-ft. (47.2 m) concrete beams over Delk Road. The beams are part of a 2,311 ft....
Mon February 22, 2016
Excavator Pair Contributes to Florida Contractor's Success
An innovative approach to business alliances has helped Honc Destruction become the largest demolition contractor in southwest Florida. Go back to 2002, the year the company started. At that time, Honc Marine Contracting was a successful builder of seawalls for thousands of waterfront properties, especially in the Cape Coral and Fort Myers, Fla., areas....
Mon February 22, 2016
Excavator Hydraulics, Fuel Efficiency Stand Out for Firm
The post-recession construction industry has spurred a number of success stories — one of which is BP Construction Group of Tampa Bay, Fla. Three-and-a-half years ago, R.G. Stathas and his cousin, Nick DiGiulio, started the company with one machine....
