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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....

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....

Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed May 19, 2021

HIghway 1 Emergency Reconstruction

Highway 1, California's scenic highway that runs along the Pacific Coast, experienced a serious washout at Rat Creek in Monterey County on Jan. 28 when a post-fire debris flow from the Dolan Fire burn scar removed a 150-ft....

Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Thu May 06, 2021

New England's $950M Clean Energy Project

Work on a $950 million project to bring clean energy to New England began three months ago and crews have already set a handful of the nearly 1,000 structures involved. The New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) project runs 145 mi....

Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue April 20, 2021

Longview Bridge and Road Reconstructs Texarkana Highway

Longview Bridge and Road is reconstructing 6 mi. of I-30 from the Arkansas State Line to Kings Highway in the city of Texarkana [Bowie County], replacing the four-lane [two lanes in each direction separated by a median] asphalt highway with six concrete lanes to handle an increase in traffic that is impacting the area....

Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue April 06, 2021

OHL USA Crews Make Upgrades to Ventura Freeway

Since July 2020, crews from OHL USA Inc. have been replacing 19.3 mi. of concrete median barrier on U.S. 101 (Hollywood Freeway/Ventura Freeway) to improve the safety of motorists via a $49.7 million project (total programmed cost) initiated by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)....

Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue March 09, 2021

Over the Lagoon — Joint Venture Leads Bridge Replacement Over Coastal Wetland

Foundation, column and bridge superstructure construction is under way at the Interstate 5 (I-5) San Elijo Lagoon highway bridge located above Manchester Avenue and a lagoon channel separating the central and east basins of the 960-acre San Elijo Lagoon coastal wetland in Encinitas, Calif., a city along the northern San Diego County coastline....

Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue March 02, 2021

John R. Jurgensen Co. Upgrades Lanes, Bridges Along I-675

The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), via a $26.1 million construction project, is rehabilitating a 17-mi. stretch of I-675 by repairing sections of pavement and resurfacing three lanes of highway in each direction....

Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu February 18, 2021

CMES Inc. Expects To Complete SR 360 Reconstruction By 2022

The Georgia Department of Transportation's (GDOT) $66.7 million reconstruction and widening of SR 360 from SR 176/New Macland Road near Marietta in Cobb County to SR 120/Charles Hardy Parkway near Dallas in Paulding County began last summer and is expected to be delivered by CMES Inc....

Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu February 18, 2021

Amid Challenges, N.C Freeway Interchange Remains on Schedule

It is now been almost nine years since contractors first began to transform the interchange at I-40 and I-77 in Statesville, N.C., 40 mi. north of Charlotte. With only an expected year-and-a-half left before the two-phased freeway project is finished, crews from two different construction companies have made quite a few upgrades to each interstate as well as several streets and roads feeding to them and the interchange....