Dick Rohland – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 01, 2020
Crews Make Fast Time on New Interchange in Minnesota
In a time spanning just more than six months, crews with Shafer Contracting substantially completed a major remake of a busy and congested highway intersection by early last fall. The project is taking place in Oakdale, Minn., located several miles northeast of St....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 01, 2020
ODOT Adds I-475 Interchange for Growing Community
In Bowling Green, Ohio, work is underway on the I-475 widening and Dorr Street interchange construction project. The $45 million effort includes widening I-475 from Central Avenue/US 20 to Airport Highway/SR 2, building new, widened I-475 bridges over Hill Avenue and Dorr Street and adding a roundabout interchange at Dorr Street....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 01, 2020
Illinois' Weber Road, I-55 Interchange Project Moves Forward
Utility relocations delays prevented crews from starting work on the $68 million I-55 Interchange project on Weber Road in Romeoville, Ill., in 2018, but in early May 2019 operations began in earnest. The work zone covers Weber Road from 119th Street north/Rodeo Road of the interchange to 135th Street/Romeo Road to the south and 1/2 mi....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue March 31, 2020
Worcester Red Sox Stadium Build Proceeds on Track for 2021 Season
The Pawtucket Red Sox — the Boston Red Sox's TripleA team — from Pawtucket, R.I., is moving into a new 10,000-capacity baseball stadium in Worcester, Mass., which is expected to be ready by April 2021, in time for the season....
Brian Fraley – FRALEY CONSTRUCTION MARKETING - Thu March 26, 2020
Linde-Griffith Saves Owner Millions with BAUER FDP Change Up
Linde-Griffith Construction Company may be 111 years old, but the contractor is far from set in its ways. This is why the owner and engineer of a multi-story condo project in Hackensack, N.J., called on them when its original contractor was unable to reach bearing capacity on a test pile program....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed March 25, 2020
Years After Hurricane Harvey, Dam Still Under Repair
Hurricane Harvey caused extensive damage in Texas and Louisiana during August 2017, including major devastation to the Vernon Lake dam and spillway in Vernon, La., which is the subject of a $1 million Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LADOTD) repair project....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu March 19, 2020
Robbins & Morton Making Progress on Huntsville Hospital
Ground was broken in early January 2019 for the construction of Huntsville Hospital's $250 million, seven-story Orthopedic & Spine Tower (OST) at its Alabama campus, making it the biggest medical construction project in the downtown area since the hospital opened its north patient tower in 1980....
Mary Yamin-Garone – CEG Correspondent - Mon March 09, 2020
T&T Salvage to Remove Shipwreck Off Coast of Georgia
On Sept. 8, 2019, the Baltimore-bound Golden Ray cargo ship capsized near the Port of Brunswick while heading out to sea off the coast of Georgia. The 656-ft. car carrier was transporting 4,200 vehicles on its way the Middle East....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Thu March 05, 2020
Roundabout With Railroad Crossing Makes Georgia History
The city of Sandersville recently received a new distinction — it is the only municipality in the state of Georgia that includes a roundabout with a railroad crossing in the center. The reconfiguration of the GA 242 intersection at Hospital Road and Waco Mill Road just inside the Sandersville city limits was recently completed at the beginning of this year....
Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Tue February 25, 2020
Five-Year Plan to Extend SH 146 Near Houston Takes Shape
A 4.5-mi. section of State Highway 146 between Red Bluff and State Highway 96 is undergoing expansion to accommodate increased traffic volume, said Deidrea George, public information officer of the Texas Department of Transportation, Houston District....
