Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed June 29, 2022
Billion-Dollar Upgrades Press On at George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Construction teams are making significant progress on the $1.3 billion upgrades to George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston. The IAH Terminal Redevelopment Program (ITRP) is the largest capital development program that the city has invested in the airport since it opened in 1969....
TxDOT - Wed June 15, 2022
Crews Begin Interstate 10 Widening Project Near El Paso
Officials with the Texas Department of Transportation El Paso held a press conference recently to discuss the new construction project to widen Interstate 10. The goal of the project is to "improve capacity, operation, circulation and safety" along the interstate, according to a statement....
CEG - Tue June 14, 2022
South Star JCB Breaks Ground On New Lewisville Facility
The visibility of the JCB brand in the Lone Star State is on the rise recently thanks to entrepreneurs like Chris Meinecke and a unique effort on the part of JCB to recruit new dealers in key markets. Meinecke's company, South Star JCB, broke ground recently in Lewisville, Texas, on what he said will be the flagship location in the Dallas-Fort Worth area....
U.S. House of Representatives - Tue June 14, 2022
U.S. House Approves $31B Solution for Ike Dike; Vote Next
Committees in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have approved the biennial Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), which would authorize a long list of water infrastructure projects, including the $31 billon Ike Dike megaproject to protect the Texas coast around Galveston from rising waters....
FLUOR - Tue June 14, 2022
Fluor Receives Half-Billion Dollar Contract for I-35 Project
Fluor Corporation (FLR) announced recently that it was awarded a construction contract for the Interstate 35 (I-35) Capital Express South project in Austin, Texas, by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)....
Water & Waste Digest - Tue June 14, 2022
Conroe Set to Bring $60M Water Treatment Facility Online
The brand new Central Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Conroe, Texas, is a $60 million project that will officially come online in the spring of 2022, and is the largest single public works project in the history of the city of Conroe....
Joe Jancsurak – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Tue June 14, 2022
Crews Complete Moody Center at University of Texas
When she was asked for the vision that drove the design and development of the newly christened Moody Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Laura Brodersen responded, "To create something uniquely Austin."As lead project architect, Brodersen and her team from the Austin offices of the international architecture, design and planning firm, Gensler, together with general contractor AECOM Hunt, said to be the nation's large builder of sports facilities, took this vision to a different level, literally....
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers - Tue June 07, 2022
$60+ Million of Equipment Sold in Ritchie Bros. Fort Worth Auction
Ritchie Bros. conducted its second Fort Worth, Texas, auction of the year in May, selling more than $60 million of equipment and trucks for 700-plus consignors. The three-day online auction saw gross transaction value grow approximately 9 percent year over year....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed June 01, 2022
McCarthy's Expansion of Port Houston Will Help Supply Chain Woes
Supply chain issues have been in the news these last two years like never before. Pictures of giant container ships getting stuck in the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, the Chesapeake Bay and elsewhere have appeared in the media....
Kirby-Smith Machinery - Tue May 17, 2022
Firm Turns West Texas Sand Into Quality Fracking Products
High-quality sand is one of the main components necessary for the hydraulic fracturing process. Until relatively recently, oil and gas companies in west Texas imported the material from as far away as Wisconsin, which came with a sizable price tag....
