WFAA. com - Mon April 19, 2021
Officials Green Light $1.7B in Funding for DART Line
The Dallas City Council recently unanimously approved continuing with the building of a second light rail alignment going through downtown Dallas, also known as D2. The city council also said it would support DART in obtaining a Federal Transit Authority [FTA] grant to help fund the project....
Skanska - Mon April 19, 2021
Skanska Promotes Joe Lindemann to VP of Operations
Skanska USA has announced that Joe Lindemann, an industry veteran with 38 years of experience in commercial construction, has been promoted to vice president of operations in north Texas. Lindemann, who is based in Skanska's north Texas office, joined the company in 1983 as a laborer and was most recently a project executive – field operations....
CEG - Wed April 07, 2021
Iron Bound Auctions Hosts Two-Day Sale in Seminole, Texas
Iron Bound Auctions held a two-day sale on March 23 to 24 at its main site in Seminole, Texas. Sales Manager Tony Peters reported almost 1,100 lots were sold over two days. The auction was a live event, with bidding available online as well....
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers - Wed April 07, 2021
Ritchie Bros. Breaks Bidder Record at Fort Worth Auction
Ritchie Bros. conducted its largest Texas auction ever in March 2021, attracting 76 percent more bidders year over year and achieving more than $95 million in gross transaction value — surpassing its previous Texas sales record, set in June 2020, by 17 percent....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 07, 2021
Officials Approve Billions of Construction Dollars for Projects
Like the rest of the country, the COVID-19 pandemic hit Texas hard, but despite this medical emergency, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) currently has more than $24 billion worth of highway, bridge and infrastructure construction projects under way – the largest in the state's history....
Doosan - Tue March 23, 2021
VIDEO: Quarry Boosts Contractor's Production With Loader Tech
Since 2017, Central Texas Stone and Aggregate LLC has been on a mission to increase its production of rock and aggregate to support construction jobs throughout central and southern Texas under the guidance of General Manager Cole Bland....
Oilprice. com - Tue March 23, 2021
French Firm Agrees to Buy Three Texas Solar Projects
France's oil and gas supermajor, Total, is buying four large-scale solar power projects plus battery storage assets in Texas, with which it plans to meet the electricity demand of all its industrial sites in the United States, including the Port Arthur refining and petrochemicals platform and La Porte and Carville petrochemical sites....
Associated Press - Tue March 23, 2021
Houston's 10-Year, $7B Project Put On Hold After Lawsuit
HOUSTON (AP) A federal lawsuit was filed to stop a massive $7 billion highway widening project in Houston that local officials and community advocates say won't improve the area's traffic congestion and will disproportionately impact minority residents who would be displaced by the proposed construction....
Duetz - Tue March 23, 2021
Deutz Corporation to Add New Power Center Location
Deutz Corporation has announced that it will be adding another Deutz Power Center location, this time in the DFW Texas area. The new location will be called Deutz Power Center Mid-America. "We've had tremendous success with Deutz Power Center Midwest in north Kansas City, Missouri," said Dominick A....
CEG - Tue March 23, 2021
Diversification Fosters TCH Growth
In one of the most competitive construction markets in the country, one contractor has separated itself from many of its competitors by way of diversification. TCH Directional Drilling of Friendswood, Texas, has seen improbable growth over the last decade under the leadership of Colby Ellis, a second-generation contractor who saw potential in the directional drilling business....
