TxDOT - Tue December 27, 2022
TxDOT Invests $250M for New Transportation Alternatives
As Texas strives to reduce the rising number of pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities, TxDOT is making available approximately $250 million for its 2023 Transportation Alternatives Call for Projects. The federal funding will go towards sidewalks, bike lanes, shared-use paths and other projects to enhance walking and biking transportation across the state....
Associated Press - Tue December 27, 2022
Officials Support $9 Billion Houston Highway Project
HOUSTON (AP) A more than $9 billion highway widening project that is being proposed in the Houston area has the support of local officials after many of their concerns were addressed. The proposed construction project would take 10 years to complete and remake 24 mi....
Fort Worth Business - Tue December 27, 2022
Three Contractors Will Make Convention Center Upgrades
Three North Texas construction firms have been chosen to lead the long-awaited expansion of the Fort Worth Convention Center. The firms were chosen based on their extensive past experience and deep ties to the region, according to Fort Worth city officials....
DICA - Tue December 27, 2022
DICA FiberMax Crane Pads Arrive at IUOE's Training Center
DICA has announced that the International Union of Operating Engineers' (IUOE) Training Center in Crosby, Texas, has received a set of FiberMax Crane Pads to use with its two new all-terrain cranes. As one of the IUOE's equipment partners, these FiberMax 6x4x6 crane pads join other DICA products already in use at the training center....
Doggett - Tue December 27, 2022
John Deere Presents Doggett With Onyx Circle Award
John Deere Construction and Forestry has presented Doggett Heavy Machinery and Doggett Machinery with the coveted Onyx Circle Award, as one of the four top-performing dealerships in the United States and Canada....
Associated Press - Tue December 27, 2022
House Authorizes Defense Bill, Includes Ike Dike Protection
HOUSTON (AP) Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike ripped through thousands of homes and businesses near Galveston, Texas, but mostly spared the region's oil refineries and chemical plants, the U.S. House of Representatives voted recently to authorize the most expensive project ever recommended by the U.S....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue December 27, 2022
Officials Celebrate Billion Dollars Worth of Projects in Texas
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), which is overseeing a major multi-billion dollar expansion of the state's highway network via road and bridge construction, officially launched a new highway project in the Fort Worth/Dallas area (Tarrant County) and marked the completion of another....
Kirby-Smith Machinery - Tue November 29, 2022
Lockhart Excavation Delivers for Its Lone Star Customers
Brice Lockhart doesn't necessarily believe in the adage, "bigger is not always better.""We like jobs that involve really big pipe, especially ones with large quantities that need to be put in the ground," said Lockhart, who owns and operates Lockhart Excavation LLC in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Melanie....
Gilmer Mirror - Tue November 29, 2022
University of Texas Professor Will Enhance Highway Asphalt
Mena Souliman, associate professor and the Ronald D. Brazzel Endowed Professor of Civil Engineering of The University of Texas at Tyler, has received a nearly $600,000 Texas Department of Transportation grant to enhance the asphalt currently being used in highway/road resurfacing projects for improved wet-weather driving....
University of Texas - Tue November 29, 2022
Officials Approve New $308 Million Medical Facility
The University of Texas Board of Regents gave final authorization for design, development and additional construction funding for the University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine's new Medical Education Building — approving a total project cost of $308 million for the facility....
