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Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 08, 2018

Golden Spike Celebrates 149th Anniversary, Track Repair

Last summer, park rangers at the Golden Spike National Historic Site in northern Utah noticed that the replica steam locomotives used for demonstration runs were dipping at a certain point on the two miles of park railroad track....

Tue May 08, 2018

Landfill Withdraws Permit Request for Industrial Waste

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Developers behind a landfill under construction near the shore of the Great Salt Lake have withdrawn an application for a permit that would have allowed the company to bring in out-of-state industrial waste....

Tue May 08, 2018

$430M Project to Add More Lanes to I-15 Under Way

PROVO, UTAH (AP) Utah leaders said a project to add more lanes to I-15 and improve east-west connectivity has taken a big step forward. The Daily Herald reports that state and local leaders met April 25 as construction of the $430 million project to add more lanes officially began....

Thu April 26, 2018

Wheeler Machinery Co. Announces New Leadership

Wheeler Machinery Co. has appointed Bryan Campbell as president and Jonathan Campbell as executive vice president, effective April 16, 2018. Rob Campbell, former president, and Paul Campbell, former executive vice president, will assume the roles of chairman of the board and vice chairman of the board, respectively....

Mon April 23, 2018

110RT Works in Wasatch Mountains in Utah

Big-D Construction of Salt Lake City, Utah, recently took ownership of a new 110-ton (100-t) 110RT rough terrain crane for a project in northern Utah. In order to accommodate the requirements of the 30-acre job site in a ravine in the Wasatch Mountains, Big-D Construction needed a crane with a small footprint with excellent reach to place more than 280,000 sq....

Tue April 10, 2018

UDOT Begins Construction Work on New I-80 Truck Lane

The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) began construction on I-80 west of Park City on April 2. Crews are building a new westbound truck lane between the Jeremy Ranch and Parleys Summit interchange, installing additional wildlife fencing and building a wildlife crossing over I-80 just west of Parleys Summit....

Tue April 10, 2018

DDI Work Begins

Beginning Feb. 22, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) began a major project to improve operations at I-215 and Redwood Road in North Salt Lake City by building a Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI)....

Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue April 10, 2018

Legislature Passes Bill, OKs Projects

A massive 222-page transportation bill passed by the Utah Legislature this spring will likely see future highway projects impacting both transit and infrastructure get the green light for funding more quickly than those projects not intermodal....

Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue April 10, 2018

UDOT Reveals $1.46B in Projects for 2018

The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) recently announced its list of Top 10 construction projects for 2018, which include 188 highway construction projects scheduled across the state with a combined value of $1.46 billion, said spokesman Zach Whitney....

Tue March 13, 2018

Petroteq Completes Major Process Systems at Facility

Petroteq Energy Inc., a company focused on the development and implementation of proprietary technologies for the energy industry, has successfully completed testing of all major process systems at its heavy oil extraction facility in Asphalt Ridge, Utah....