Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu June 10, 2021
Old River Road Overpass On I-16 Nears Its Finish
McLendon Enterprises Inc. is a few months away from completing the Georgia Department of Transportation's (GDOT) $8,575,000 Old River Road Overpass at Interstate 16 project in Bloomingdale, Effingham County....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu June 10, 2021
NCDOT Widens Strategic Highway
In an effort to improve traffic, construction crews in North Carolina are working on a stretch of I-40 from Raleigh to the I-40/NC 42 interchange in Clayton. The $360 million project was designed to help ease congestion and delays, make travel safer throughout the area and better accommodate motorists due to future growth....
Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Wed June 09, 2021
Reconstructing Indy's North Split
In Indiana's capitol, May usually signifies fast cars at the Indianapolis 500, but this year, the month also focused on other kinds of traffic. The North Split in downtown Indy closed on May 15 to allow crews to continue work on the $329 million project to rebuild bridges and roadways that are part of the state's second-busiest interchange....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Thu June 03, 2021
Fay Forges Ahead Over the Yough
A bridge in McKeesport, Pa., is currently being revitalized for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. The Jerome Street Bridge is an arch bridge crossing the Youghiogheny River. It opened in the current design in 1937 and was previously rehabilitated in 1988....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 01, 2021
Connecting Washington — KLB Construction, WSDOT Enter Third Phase of Project
A nearly $1 billion job to make a major artery connecting population centers from eastern to western Washington is about to enter the third of four phases, but early on the planned project encountered a glitch that could have brought it to a halt....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 01, 2021
Q&D Construction Completes Echo Summit Job Using Accelerated Bridge Construction
Employing an accelerated bridge construction method (ABC), Q&D Construction was able to complete the California Department of Transportation's $14.1 million U.S. Highway 50 Echo Summit Sidehill Viaduct Replacement Project three months ahead of schedule....
Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Thu May 27, 2021
Gateway Expressway: Tampa's Biggest Project
The Florida Department of Transportation is working on one of the biggest construction projects in Tampa Bay history: The Gateway Expressway. The two-part project consists of constructing two new two-lane elevated tolled roadways that will provide direct connections between U.S....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed May 26, 2021
O'Rourke Completes Turfway Park Grandstand Demo
The revamp of the Turfway Park horse racing track in Florence, Ky., began on April 23, 2020, when O'Rourke Wrecking Company Inc. crews began the demolition of the race track's grandstand, a multi-million-dollar job that was completed last August....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 25, 2021
Facebook Decides Color of New Spottsville Bridge
University of Kentucky sports fans will soon have colorful evidence of their team loyalty when a new bridge sprouts on the landscape sporting the team colors of blue and white. Work began on the $32 million Spottsville Bridge, known officially as the Richard W....
Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 25, 2021
Dual Bridge Repair in Dayton
Nothing lasts forever. When the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) conducted routine inspections of the bridge decks and surface of Interstate 75 over Edwin C. Moses Boulevard and Carillon Boulevard near the Great Miami River in Dayton, Ohio, they concluded that the bridge decks built in 1963 had reached the end of their useful design life....
