Stacey & Witbeck - Wed September 07, 2022
Stacey and Witbeck Completes $101M Ogden BRT Line
General contractor Stacey and Witbeck recently completed the $101 million Ogden bus rapid transit (BRT) line for the 5.3-mi. transit connection between downtown Ogden and the campuses of Weber State University and McKay-Dee Hospital....
UDOT - Wed September 07, 2022
Crews, Officials Celebrate Porter Rockwell Bridge Finish
Construction crews, local officials and the Utah Department of Transportation recently celebrated the completion of the Porter Rockwell Boulevard Bridge, which marked the final segment required to connect Porter Rockwell Boulevard to Redwood Road and 14600 South....
UDOT - Tue September 06, 2022
Utah's Bridges Rank First
Utah's bridges are the best maintained in the nation, according to a recent report issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highways Administration (FHWA). Utah has the lowest percentage of bridges on the National Highway System (which includes interstates and other key U.S....
CEG - Wed August 10, 2022
Dish Soap Helps Move Million-Pound Bridge
Crews from Wadsworth Bros. Construction Company used some innovation to execute a bridge slide in Cedar City, Utah. Working with the Utah Department of Transportation, the Draper-based general contractor managed to slide a 1.1-million-lbs....
Bureau of Land Management - Wed August 10, 2022
Officials Want to Reconstruct Popular Dino Tracksite Trail
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Moab Field Office (MFO) proposes to rebuild a popular paleontological attraction, the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite Trail. The BLM proposes to rebuild the trail using safer and more durable materials than those utilized in the original raised wooden boardwalk, which was built in 2014....
Layton Construction - Wed August 10, 2022
Layton, Partners Pour 15 Million Lbs. of Concrete in SLC
Layton Construction recently completed one of the largest continuous concrete pours in Utah state history. Crews from the Sandy-based contractor successfully placed 15.7 million lbs. of concrete in a 13-hour window for a 500,000-sq.-ft....
St. George News - Wed July 27, 2022
Construction Crews Turn to Dish Soap to Aid Bridge Slide
The Utah Department of Transportation recently slid a 1.1-million-lb. bridge into place using dish soap to smooth the slide via a hydraulic system. The entire accelerated bridge construction took approximately one year to complete, but the soap-enhanced portion was completed in four hours....
Big-D Construction - Tue July 12, 2022
Big-D Construction, Kitchel Finish $1 Billion Prison Project
Work has wrapped up on the new Utah State Correction Facility (USCF), the largest construction project ever undertaken by the state of Utah. The Utah State Prison Relocation project, comprised of 35 buildings and 1.35 million sq....
UDOT - Tue July 12, 2022
Sunroc Completes Bluff Street Tunnel Ahead of Schedule
One of St. George's busiest stretches of road is now reopened after construction crews completed a major milestone ahead of schedule. The new pedestrian tunnel running under Bluff Street just south of the Main Street intersection is now accessible to residents after considerable construction was completed....
Biological Diversity. org - Tue July 12, 2022
Approval of Uinta Railway Will Increase Oil Production
The U.S. Forest Service has rejected challenges to the Uinta Basin Railway, saying the project is in the public interest even as it predicts the oil railway could increase climate pollution in the U.S....
