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More Than 500 Attend Alabama AGC's 2026 Convention

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Alabama AGC - More than 500 construction industry leaders, contractors, suppliers and guests gathered June 18-21, 2026, at the Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort and Spa in Destin, Fla., for the Associ...

Research Project Helping ALDOT Maintain Roadsides

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ALDOT - A four-year research project at Auburn University is helping the Alabama Department of Transp...

Auburn Approves Major Project at Jordan Hare Stadium

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AuburnTigers.com/CEG - Auburn University's Board of Trustees has approved a large scale redevelopment of the north end of Jordan Hare Stadium, setting up what officials describe as one of the most complex construction projects ever undertaken on campus. Known as the Jordan Hare North Project, the work will feat...

Hoar Breaks Ground On STEM + Agricultural Sciences Complex at Auburn University

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Hoar Construction - Hoar Construction has announced the groundbreaking of a new 285,000-sq.-ft. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Agriculture Sciences Complex at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala. Hoar is serving as general contractor on the $184 million project, whi...

Auburn University Starts Work On New $77M College of Education Building

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Auburn Newsroom - Construction recently began on Auburn University's new College of Education building at the intersection of West Samford Avenue and Duncan Drive, the former site of the Hill Residence Halls, in the east-central Alabama town of Auburn. The university announced May 15 that the $77 million f...

Auburn University Program Looks to Revive, Build Resiliency in Rural Alabama

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The Auburn Plainsman - Across Alabama, the landscape is littered with abandoned shops, rusted-out factories and dilapidated homes without hope of revival in small towns that have seen better days. However, a program at Auburn University aims to reverse the state's rural decline. Rural Studio, a College of A...

Federal Grants Help Auburn University, Contractors to Preserve Historic Schools

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Auburn University - A multidisciplinary research team at Auburn University will use money from a recent National Park Service (NPS) grant to work with a preservation contractor to stabilize the crumbling Tankersley Rosenwald School in Hope Hull, Ala., one of many schools built for African American children in the fi...

NCAT Director Named Peter and Lisa Wilson Distinguished Professor

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Allison Killingsworth — Auburn University - Auburn University's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has named Randy West, director of the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT), as the inaugural holder of the Peter and Lisa Wilson distinguished professorship. Established through a gift from Peter and Lisa Wilson, this endowed...

Inflation Has Delayed Building New Arena for University of Alabama Basketball

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AL.com - With the University of Alabama (UA) men's basketball recently reaching No. 4 in the Associated Press poll ranking, its highest in 16 years, fan excitement around the program has reached a fevered pitch. The Crimson Tide plays its home games at two facilities, including the 17,000-plus...

SouthEast Demolition & Environmental Services Razes Auburn Dorm

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - In an effort to prepare the campus for future construction, crews in East Alabama are carrying out a four-phase, $7.5 million demolition at Auburn University. The teardown of the Hill Residence Hall complex began in spring 2022 and remains ahead of schedule. "The complex was built between...

Auburn Embarks On Its Largest Athletics Project in School History

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - In east-central Alabama, construction is under way on the largest athletics project in Auburn University's history. The school's new football performance center, a roughly $92 million effort, includes a 233,400-sq.-ft. overall facility consisting of a 138,100-sq.-ft. football oper...

Final Beam Raised on Unique Facility at Auburn, Set to Open in 2022

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Auburn University - A crane hoisted the last construction beam atop a unique, world class facility at Auburn University on May 14, marking a critical point in the construction of the school's Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center. The final beam — 1,500 lbs. of American-made steel — was lif...

Auburn Culinary Center Set to Open in 2021

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - As one of the largest single construction contracts in Auburn University's history, the $110 million Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center is expected to be a game changer in the field of hospitality education when it opens in 2021. "Auburn has a long and proud hist...

Auburn's $83M ACLC Project Nears Completion

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - With the first of two iconic buildings on Auburn University's campus now reduced to rubble, construction crews are one step closer to building the Academic Classroom and Laboratory Complex (ACLC). The $83 million ACLC project calls for a 151,000 sq. ft. building with seating for ...

Auburn Readies New Performing Arts Center for Opening

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - The curtain will soon be rising on Auburn University's $70 million Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center as construction crews add their finishing touches to the new structure. The state-of-the-art facility encompasses more than 85,000 sq. ft. of space with several multipurpose venues de...

State's Airports Receive $25.5M in Improvement Grants

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Emily Buenzle - Twenty-five Alabama airports will receive more than $25.5 million in grant money from the Federal Aviation Administration for infrastructure, safety and equipment improvements. "These FAA grants support critical projects that aim to improve safety, security and efficiency of airports acro...

Fastest Growing U.S. Hotel Brand Rises in Alabama

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Cindy Riley - Construction crews in Auburn, Ala., have begun work on what's being described as the fastest growing new-build hotel brand in United States history. When complete, the new four-story Tru by Hilton will feature 98 rooms, a swimming pool, exercise room and game zone with pool table and lounge ...

Winners of Perpetual Pavement Awards Named

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CEG - Ten departments of transportation were named winners of the 2016 Perpetual Pavement Award by Asphalt Pavement Association (APA). The award celebrates long-life asphalt pavements that reflect the characteristics of a Perpetual Pavement design.The award is presented to state transportation d...

Asphalt Pavement Alliance Announces Winnders of 2016 Perpetual Pavement Awards

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CEG - Ten departments of transportation were named winners of the 2016 Perpetual Pavement Award by Asphalt Pavement Association (APA). The award celebrates long-life asphalt pavements that reflect the characteristics of a Perpetual Pavement design.The award is presented to state transportation d...

Auburn U. Community Awaits New Facilities

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Cindy Riley - Officials at Auburn University are eagerly awaiting completion of a new Health Sciences Sector, which will feature a new nursing school and pharmaceutical research building. The $29 million, 89,000 square-foot nursing facility and the $17 million, 38,000 square-foot Harrison School of Pharmacy ...

Total Impact of Commercial Construction in Ala. Tops $10B

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Michael Tomberlin - AL.COM - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) The commercial construction industry has close to a $10 billion annual economic impact on Alabama, the first-ever study of its kind found. The Associated Builders and Contractors of Alabama commissioned the first detailed look at the economic impact of the constructio...

National Collegiate Landscape Competition Kicks Off at Auburn

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CEG - The National Collegiate Landscape Competition kicked off at Auburn University on March 7. The event, in its 37th year, is the largest annual gathering of green industry companies and students. It offers the chance for companies to meet and interview the nation’s most promising horti...

GUCA Elects 2011-2012 President and Board Members

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CEG - The Georgia Utility Contractors Association Inc. recently elected Charlie Murren, C.A. Murren & Sons Company Inc., as the 2011-2012 GUCA president at the 2011 GUCA Annual Conference in Amelia Island, Fla.Murren graduated from Auburn University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil En...

Contractor Hits Ace With Laser System

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CEG - Lower Bros. Co. Inc. a family-owned business based in Birmingham, Ala., has been building public and private tennis courts since 1965. It also has the distinction of being one of the earliest — if not the first — to use a Bobcat loader and grader attachment with a laser system....

Auburn Panel OKs Campus’

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CEG - AUBURN, Ala. (AP) A trustees panel has approved a design for eight new residence halls at Auburn University — a $118 million proposal described as the largest construction project ever for the campus.The Property and Facilities Committee unanimously approved the design April 26....

Auburn, Baldwin Co. Agree on New Road

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CEG - FAIRHOPE, AL (AP) A 16-mi. (26 km) highway linking Interstate 10 to U.S. 98 near Magnolia Springs can be built now that Baldwin County and Auburn University (AU) have agreed on rights of way. Auburn trustees unanimously approved an agreement that allows the county to build a two-lane highw...

South Carolina DOT Wins Perpetual Pavement Award

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CEG - The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) has won a 2004 Perpetual Pavement Award for a section of Interstate 26 in Spartanburg County from the Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA). The award will be presented May 18 by Jack Lettiere Jr., 2005 president of the American Association...

TDOT’s Interstate 81 Honored by APA

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CEG - The Tennessee Department of Transportation has won a 2004 Perpetual Pavement Award for a section of Interstate 81 in Washington and Sullivan Counties from the Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA). The award will be presented by Jack Lettiere, Jr., 2005 president of the American Association of S...

Cowin Equipment Co. Promotes Three to Vice President Roles

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CEG - Cowin Equipment Company, Inc., recently promoted three employees to vice president positions. Russ Huber has been named to the position of vice president/general manager for Georgia. In this position, he is responsible for all sales, rental, and product support activities for Cowin’s...

AGC Introduces Boy Scouts to Industry

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Bill Caton - In the infield at the Talladega Superspeedway equipment horns blared in an incomprehensible rhythm like a New York City traffic jam. Boy Scouts climbed on backhoes, front-end loaders and bulldozers and stared straight up at a 60-ton crane. Across the way, circular saws squealed and the c...