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DOT Selects Matthews-McClendon JV for $468M I-16 Project

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CEG - The Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) announced Matthews-McLendon Joint Venture (MMJV)/Infrastructure Consulting & Engineering (ICE) LLC as the awarded successful proposer for the I-16 widening project from I-95 to SR 67, PI No. 0020739 at $468.35 million. As the larg...

Liebherr HS 8300.1 With More Than 20,000 Hours Is 'as Good as New'

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Liebherr USA - Matthews Brothers Dredging LLC has been deploying a Liebherr duty cycle crawler crane type HS 8300.1 for bucket dredging along the United States Gulf Coast for four years. With a winch capacity of 500 kN and...

C.W. Matthews Contracting Progresses With Phase II of Columbus' 'Spiderweb' Project

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Phase II of the $45.8 million "Spiderweb" project debuted in April 2025 when crews from C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. began constructing a new five-lane, approximately 216-ft.-long bridge over Norfolk Southern Railway tracks on Buena Vista Road in South Columbus. ...

C.W. Matthews Holds Third Annual Asphalt Construction Rodeo

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CEG - C.W. Matthews Contracting Co., an infrastructure and asphalt construction company, recently wrapped up its third annual Asphalt Construction Rodeo at its corporate campus in Marietta, Ga. Twenty-eight of the company's asphalt machine operators signed up for the three-day competition. ...

C.W. Matthews Replacing Trio of Bridges Along SR 400

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Construction of the Georgia Department of Transportation's (GDOT) $55 million SR 400 Bridge Replacements project — taking place in Fulton County — has begun and C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc. is expected to deliver the three new bridges between April and June of 2024. ...

C.W. Matthews Completes Work to Reopen Cheshire Bridge

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GDOT - Crews from C.W. Matthews have reached a construction milestone as officials recently reopened a portion of the Cheshire Bridge over South Fork Peachtree Creek. The crucial span suffered damage from a fire in August 2021 when a 4-in. natural gas line leaked, causing the pipe to ig...

C.W. Matthews Expects to Complete $111M Phase 2 of Jackson County, Ga. Project in Coming Months

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc. began work on the Georgia Department of Transportation's $111 million I-85 Widening, Phase II (SR 53 to US 129) project in June 2021 that is taking place in the municipalities of Braselton and Pendergrass (Jackson County) to ease traffic congestion. ...

Emergency Repair: C.W. Matthews Corrects Bridge Deck On I-85

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is one of the largest and most active DOTs in the country and it recently sprang into action when emergency I-85 northbound bridge deck repairs were required near Exit 137 in the city of Jefferson, between the municipalities of Braselton and Penderg...

Former Educator Making a Difference With C.W. Matthews Contracting Co.

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Jeremy Whitaker taught construction trades education for seven years at Kennesaw Mountain High School in Cobb County, Ga., before he was hired by C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc. last June to promote the construction industry in elementary and high schools as a means to secure ...

C.W. Matthews Tackles $500M I-16/I-75 Interchange

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Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Phase one of the $500 million I-16/I-75 interchange improvement project in Macon, Ga., is well under way, but while the road to completion is a long one —approximately eight years —the completed project should dramatically improve what is currently a very busy and congested commute....

C.W. Matthews Takes Aim at Improving Deadly Ga. Road

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Cindy Riley - As temperatures continue to climb, crews in Cherokee County, Ga., are tackling a 4.3-mi. (6.9-km) project involving construction of truck passing lanes on SR 20, beginning west of Union Hill Road and extending to east of Greenwood Court in Cherokee County. Work on this project just recently began...

C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Purchases First Cat D7E in Ga.

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CEG - C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc recently purchased the first Caterpillar D7E AC electric drive track-type tractor sold in Georgia. The sale marks only the second D7E sold in the southeast with US Steel in Tallahassee, Fla., purchasing the first one. After delivery of the machine, Yancey ...

C.W. Matthews Leads Large Scale I-75 Project in Georgia

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Zoie Clift - The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is in the midst of a large-scale construction project on I-75 in Morrow with the goal of reducing traffic congestion and preparing the community for future growth.According to Richard Stanley, project manager of GDOT, the project, which start...

C.W. Matthews Reaches Midpoint of $16.7M Bridge Project

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Angela B. Hurni - Since June 2008, C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc., based out of Marietta, Ga., has been working on a $16.7-million bridge replacement contract on State Route 280 (SR 280) awarded to them by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). In addition to the replacement of the bridge, the projec...

Superintendent of Highways Steve Matthews and the Town of Clinton

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Mary S. Yamin-Garone - It’s true what they say. One man can make a difference. Just ask the residents of the town of Clinton. Ever since Steve Matthews became its highway superintendent it has been all about change — change for the town, change for the highway department and change for the residents. Whe...

C.W. Matthews Begins 14th St. Bridge Replacement

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Matthew Willett - Getting around Midtown Atlanta has been a little more circuitous since Feb. 9.Work by C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc. to replace the 14th Street bridge over the I-75/85 connector required the closure of Techwood Avenue between 16th and 10th streets until 2009 and the re-routing of traff...

C.W. Matthews, APAC Build Unique 17th Street Span

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G.W. Hall - C.W. Matthews Construction Co., of Marietta, and APAC-Georgia Inc. recently began a $38.2-million joint venture project that will provide the city of Atlanta with one of its most unique bridges. “The new design will create a connection that is functional, aesthetically pleasing, and...

C.W. Matthews Molds Atlanta’s $2B Atlantic Station

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G.W. Hall - The $2-billion Atlantic Station project continues to take shape north of 14th Street in Atlanta, at the site of the old Atlantic Steel mill. When completed in three years, the 140-acre (57 ha) mixed-use enclave will include hotels, condos, apartments, restaurants, retail establishments, office sp...

C. W. Matthews Paves the Way for Hartsfield International Air

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CEG - Construction crews were recently put to the test milling and paving a runway at a major airport where hundreds of jet airplanes roared past them each day as they took off and landed just a short distance away on a parallel runway. The construction crews were rebuilding Runway 9R-27L at th...

GDOT's Bridge Project Over SR 293, CSX Railroad Advances

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc. is making steady progress on the Georgia Department of Transportation's (GDOT) $30.1 million State Route 3/U.S. 41 bridges over State Route 293 and CSX Railroad project that is construc...

Link-Belts Complete Heavy Picks, Work $1.3B GDOT Project

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Link-Belt Cranes - Link-Belt crawler cranes are vital to a massive infrastructure renovation issued by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). Using a 200-ton 248 HSL and a 150-ton 238 HSL, C.W. Matthews of Mariett...

Diverging Diamond Interchange at Bradley Park Drive Nears Completion

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - It was on March 10, 2023, that crews from C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc. initiated construction on the Georgia Department of Transportation's (GDOT) $21 million State Route 22 at County Road 1505/Bradley Park Drive diverging diamond interchange (DDI) project in Columbus. The project i...

I-75 at Akers Mill Road Express Lanes Access Point Opens

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc. has delivered the Georgia Department of Transportation's (GDOT) $26.5 million Interstate 75 at Akers Mill Road New Express Lanes Ramp project in the city of Cumberland (Cobb County), an initiative that began in October 2021. The project provides motorist...

Columbus, Ga.'s $47M Buena Vista Interchange Project Finally Nears Finish Line

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WRBL-TV - In Columbus, Ga., a major highway interchange project is finally getting closer to being finished. State leaders and transportation officials gathered May 1, 2025, to discuss updates on the Buena Vista Interchange project. The $47 million effort aims to reconstruct the interchange at Buen...

GDOT to Begin $104M Road Widening Project Near Atlanta; Updates Status of Other Work

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Georgia Department of Transportation - The largest section of a widening project along Georgia Highway 20 north of the Atlanta metro area will soon be getting under way, the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) announced. The state agency awarded Marietta, Ga.'s C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc. a $104 million cont...

Georgia Is Moving Ahead to Enhance Highway Networks

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - As Georgia's population and economy surge, the need for an enhanced road network has never been greater, and the state's multi-billion-dollar Major Mobility Investment Program (MMIP) is building the infrastructure to meet immediate and future demands. The Georgia Department of Tra...

ECA Mourns Loss of Former President, Chairman, Alfred 'Al' Roy Kern

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EQUIPMENT CORPORATION OF AMERICA - Alfred "Al" Roy Kern died Aug. 29, 2024, former president and chairman of Equipment Corporation of America, died peacefully at home in Ocean Ridge, Fla. He was 89. Born in Pittsburgh on Nov. 30, 1934, to Leonard and Alice, Mr. Kern was a fifth-generation Pittsburgher whose great, great, g...

Northeastern University in Boston Details Plan for New Arena, Several Other Projects

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Universal Hub - Northeastern University in Massachusetts filed detailed plans June 14 with the Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) for its proposed replacement of Matthews Arena on St. Botolph Street. In addition, the college laid out longer-term plans for a number of other buildings and prop...

GDOT Crews Pour New Spans for SR 400 Project

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CEG - Construction crews working for the Georgia Department of Transportation reached a crucial milestone on one of the more significant construction projects in the state. During the first week of January, crews began executing the beginning of a new deck for the new Kimball Bridge Road bridge...

GDOT Awards Projects Valued at $162M

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GDOT & Macon Telegraph - The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) recently announced that it had awarded 22 projects in February valued at $162 million. Twenty were awarded on March 3, and two other projects from the February letting which were originally deferred were awarded later in the month. The large...

Contracting Crews Will Be Busy With Phases of $500M Project

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Georgia Department of Transportation - Contractors for the Georgia Dept. of Transportation (GDOT) — including ER Snell — have started to continue construction activities related to the I-16/I-75 Interchange Improvement Project in Macon-Bibb County. After C.W. Matthews completed Pha...

GDOT Awards $182.2M in New Projects in April, $50M for Roadwork in May

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GDOT - The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) awarded more than $182.2 million for 17 projects statewide in April, the agency announced May 31. According to the department, 47 percent of the money went to bridge projects, while 44 percent is earmarked for road resurfaci...

Crews Continue Work On $500M Megaproject

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CEG - Considerable progress is being made since ground was broken in?April 2017?on the?Georgia?Department of Transportation's (GDOT) I-16/I-75 Improvement Project. ...

Owners Plan New $70M Stadium for Kansas City's Women's Pro Soccer Team

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Associated Press - KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The owners of Kansas City's professional women's soccer team announced Oct. 26 they plan to build a $70 million stadium for the team. The stadium for Kansas City NWSL will be the first built in the United States specifically for a women's soccer team. Kansas ...

Second Phase to Alleviate Traffic Bottleneck at Tennessee's I-75/I-24 Split Set for 2023

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Chattanooga Times Free Press - The initial phase of the now-$133.5 million improvement project at the infamous Interstate 75/Interstate 24 "Split" near the Tennessee-Georgia state line was officially completed on Aug. 19, but it has not answered all the interchange's problems yet. Traffic flow through the interchan...

Crews Make Headway On $63M I-16/I-75 Improvement Project

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Since ground was broken in?April 2017?on the?Georgia?Department of Transportation's (GDOT) I-16/I-75 Improvement Project in Macon, crews from E.R. Snell Contractor Inc. and C.W. Matthews Contracting Company Inc. are making considerable progre...

Peachtree Creek Bridge Gets Its $20M Upgrade

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - The Peachtree Creek Bridge on SR 3/Northside Drive in North Atlanta (Fulton County), built in 1926, is being replaced by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) via a $20,164,623.92 contract that was awarded to C. W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc. (CWM). ...

Georgia's Alabama Highway Widening Project Set for September Finish

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Rome News Tribune - After more than 3½ years, the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has announced that its widening project along Alabama Highway/GA Highway 151 in north Georgia is closing in on the final stages of completion. Work on the project initially began in July 2017...

Georgia DOT Begins Work on New I-85 Widening in Jackson County

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GDOT - The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) on Nov. 17 announced the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Interstate 85 Phase 2 widening project in Jackson County. Work has already commenced to expand I-85 from two to three lanes in both directions east of Braselton from ...

Work Continues on Major Upgrade to Macon's I-16/I-75 Interchange

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GDOT - Contractors for the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) are hard at work on the construction activities related to the I-16/I-75 Interchange Improvement Project in Macon-Bibb County. With a cost of $500 million, GDOT considers the upgrade to the I-16/I-75 intercha...

Georgia DOT Awards $58.5M in Construction Contracts for May

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GDOT - Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) awarded 32 construction contracts for statewide transportation projects totaling $58,534,346. The largest single awarded investment, worth approximately $6.3 million, was awarded to Oxford Construction Company...

Crews Confront 'Very Challenging Job' on $500M Project

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Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - A little more than three years into a projected eight-year interchange project in Macon, the contractor can't seem to buy a break. Environmental issues, flooding and unmarked utilities have added at least a year and a half to the project to improve the I-16/I-75 interchange. But, Dane Nelson,...

Rebuilding of Church Lost in 9/11 Attacks to Resume

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Karen Matthews - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) Two years after a lack of funds halted construction of a marble-clad Greek Orthodox church at New York's World Trade Center site, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Greek Orthodox officials announced plans to resume construction with the goal of finishing the rebuilding by the 2...

Atlanta 10 Years Later: Business Booming as Growth Continues

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Mary Yamin-Garone – CEG Correspondent - Did you know that Atlanta's metropolitan area is the third largest and fastest growing in the country? And not only that, its growth rate is consistently in the top five? Now that you do, what does all of that mean? Improving the city's infrastructure is a necessity. Atlan...

Crews Rebuild Tenn. Bridge One Week After Collapse

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Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - The collapse of the I-75 South bridge over I-24 West in Chattanooga April 1 proved to be anything but a funny April Fool's Day prank to motorists and the Tennessee DOT. All lanes at the busy interchange of I-75 and I-24 closed for several hours after ...

GDOT's $135M Widening of I-85 Presses Forward

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - The first of the Georgia Department of Transportation's 11 Major Mobility Investment Program (MMIP) projects, the $135 million-plus design-build widening of I-85, is being constructed by C.W. Matthews Contracting Company (CWM) Inc. to reduce congestion on the...

GDOT's $51M Widening of SR 92 Makes Progress

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Last November the C.W. Matthews Contracting Company Inc. began work on the multi-year, $51,173,350 widening and reconstruction of State Route 92, a Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) project that begins at Malone Road in Douglas County and goes north to ...

80-Story 3 World Trade Center to Open After Years of Delays

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Karen Matthews - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) - An 80-story office building set to open this week at the World Trade Center will be the latest completed skyscraper at the site where the twin towers stood. Monday's ribbon-cutting for the 1,079-ft. 3 World Trade Center marks a major step in the rebuilding of the site,...

Deal Could Restart Stalled NYC Ferris Wheel Project

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Karen Matthews – ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) It was a soaring idea, intended to put the city's least-populous, least-visited borough on the tourism map. But six years after it was announced, a plan to build one of the world's largest Ferris wheels on Staten Island is still stuck on the ground. The four ...

The Housing Market Has Recovered While Construction Workers Still Struggle

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Christopher Matthews - It's one of the great mysteries of the U.S. real-estate recovery: home prices nationally are just a touch below pre-crisis levels, and at all-time highs in many populous markets, as buyers scramble to grab what they can during a 30-year low for housing inventory. Yet homebuilders are moving a...

Maryland Construction Worker Dies After Being Hit By Truck

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Chase Cook - A highway construction worker died has from injuries he suffered when he was struck by a truck while working on Route 175 in Severn, Md. July 26.Walter I. Gonzalez-Lopez, 56, of Baltimore died Sunday while being treated at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.Anne Ar...

Charlotte Wants to Spend $6B to Expand Rail System

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CEG - Charlotte wants to spend up to $6 billion to expand its light rail system to the airport and suburbs not currently served.But the city hasn't finalized a plan to pay for it, and there may not be support to extend the trains to areas like Matthews, southeast of the city and the northern...

Yancey Bros. Co. Hosts Open House

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. hosted more than 200 attendees at its open house event, which officially kicked off the grand opening of its newest Yancey Rents CAT Rental Store on Nov. 3 in Kennesaw, Ga. Representatives from Yancey and from Cat, as well as suppliers of rental machines from Makita, Wacker Neuso...

Leo L. Matthews Passes Away

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CEG - Leo L. Matthews passed away on Sept. 4, 2016.Mr. Matthews served as president and CEO of Allied Construction Products LLC (formerly known as Allied Steel & Tractor Products Inc.) over two separate periods of time from 1976 through 1983 in Solon, Ohio, and most recently from 1993 through 20...

Penn Station Thrill Ride Could Fund Much-Needed Renovations

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Karen Matthews - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) Catching a train at New York's crowded Penn Station is no thrill. But a development team has proposed a novel plan to overhaul the station: Build a 1,200-ft. (111.5 m) thrill ride on top of it and pay for renovations by charging $35 a ticket.The plan submitted to state of...

TxDOT Warns Drivers to Pay Attention in Work Zones

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CEG - Two seconds. That's how long Rodney Matthews, former construction inspector for the Texas Department of Transportation, had to react after he heard a crash and a driver drove through his work zone. Matthews was thrown 30 ft. (9 m) in the air and sustained a concussion and severe injuries, but...

World Trade Center Transit Hub Opens Under Cloud of $4B Cost

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Karen Matthews - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) The soaring, white transportation hub opening at the World Trade Center was designed to evoke a bird in flight, but it is hatching under a cloud.There will be no ribbon-cutting celebration when the train station's grand hall, called the Oculus, opens because the head of t...

County Reconsiders Net-Zero Energy Construction Goal

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CEG - BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Boulder County officials are recommending a slower rollout of building codes that would require all new construction in unincorporated Boulder County to be ”net zero’ for energy use by 2022 after several board members expressed concern over the costs associated w...

Much-Needed Truck Climbing Lanes Under Way on SR 20

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Brenda Ruggiero - Two sections of truck climbing lanes are currently being constructed along State Route 20 in Georgia. The project begins approximately 600 ft. (182 m) west of Union Hill Road/CR 762 at mile post 15.96 and ends 1,500 ft. (457 m) east of Greenwood Court/CR 1968 at mile post 22.40.The project...

New Interchange on I-575 Under Way in Cherokee County

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Angela B. Hurni - The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has awarded a design/build contract worth $18.1 million for the construction of a new interchange on I-575 at Ridgewalk Parkway to contractor C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc., Marietta, Ga., and transportation consultants, The LPA Group, headquart...

Heatec Expands Its Services for the Asphalt Industry

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CEG - Heatec, an Astec Industries Company located in Chattanooga, Tenn., has expanded its services for the asphalt industry. The company has become heavily involved in building new asphalt storage terminals and asphalt emulsion plants. Heatec now does major mechanical design and electrical engineering ...

Toxic Tower Damaged on 9/11 Finally Coming Down

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Karen Matthews - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) The contaminated bank tower stood shrouded in black netting for years near the World Trade Center site, filled with toxic dust and the remains of 9/11 victims.Nearly a decade after the trade center’s south tower fell into it, the building with a sad history of le...

NYC Team Bringing Transitional Shelters to Haiti

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Karen Matthews - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) A team of New York architects flew to Haiti with prototypes of an octagonal vinyl structure they hope will help house some of the 1.5 million Haitians still homeless because of the Jan. 12 earthquake. The first of the aluminum-and-steel octagonal structures will be built in J...

Long-Awaited Widening Job Gets Under Way

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Zoie Clift - Construction on a long-awaited project to ease traffic congestion on two major roads in Georgia is making headway after years of hurdles. The project, which is being led by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), involves both widening and bridge work at Johnson Ferry and Abernath...

Tentative Agreement Reached on Rebuilding WTC Site

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Karen Matthews and Jennifer Peltz - ASSOCIATED PRESSs - NEW YORK (AP) The World Trade Center developer and government agencies that control the site have reached a tentative deal to resolve a 16-month stalemate over rebuilding at ground zero. The proposed agreement will allow four office towers to be built, although one will be delayed indefini...

Protests Mar Groundbreaking for Arena

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Karen Matthews - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) Officials broke ground March 11 on a much-delayed 22-acre (9 ha) development project that will bring the National Basketball Association’s New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn. As protesters chanted and staged a mock funeral for the “soul” of Brooklyn, supporters enj...

Slew of Intersections in Ga. Get Much-Needed Makeovers

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Betsy Mordecai - Overall improvements involving resurfacing and widening of various intersections on State Routes 9 and 20 in Forsyth County, Ga., are proceeding on schedule, according to Jeff Shropshire, roadway division vice president of C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. The Marietta-based construction company̵...

N.Y. Officials, WTC Developer Agree on Next Meeting

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Karen Matthews - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) A meeting aimed at resolving an impasse over who will pay for new office towers at the World Trade Center site resulted only with an agreement by top elected officials from New York and New Jersey to meet in June with the developer.New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told r...

Macon Road Widening Job to Alleviate Growing Traffic Woes

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Eric Olson - Crews are busy working on a $14.5 million road-widening project along Bloomfield Road/Log Cabin Drive on Macon’s west-southwest side that will help alleviate growing traffic headaches in the area.The project stretches a little more than 2.5 mi. (4 km) south to north on Bloomfield Roa...

Yankees, Mets Gear Up for Last Seasons at Current Ballparks

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Karen Matthews - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) One is the House that Ruth Built. One is the concrete box where the Beatles performed in 1965 and the New York Mets went from chumps to champs.Opening Day will usher in the last season at both the current Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium, as work progresses on the gleaming new...

Crews Monitor Water Quality at Interchange Job

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Matthew Willett - The Cherokee darter is a tiny fish, less than 3 in. long, found nowhere in the world outside the Etowah River basin; it’s been listed as a threatened species since 1995.So when the Georgia Department of Transportation let the contract for interchange reconstruction at I-575 and Ga. H...

Yankees, Mets Baseball Building Boom Bites Big Apple

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Karen Matthews - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) The home plate of the New York Mets is marked with green paint in the gravel. The infield is a construction site teeming with men in hard hats. The seats of Yankee Stadium rumble not with cheers and boos, but with cement mixers and excavators.Forty-three years after the last ...

S.B. Cox Crew Demolishes Renowned Football Stadium in Roanoke

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Jeff Cronin - For the proponents of the replacement of a stadium in Roanoke, VA, the completion of S.B. Cox’s contract July 28 was a victory. Following years of debate between preservationists and those hoping for a new venue, Victory Stadium is no longer. Built 64 years ago, the 24,000-sea...

Negotiations Begin on 1st Public-Private Initiative

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Jeff Cronin - The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has launched the negotiation process for the first construction project to be built as a Public-Private Initiative (PPI) in the state, a move that could spring its expected date of completion forward by a decade.The Transportation Board voted...

Work to Start on Costliest Road Project

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CEG - ATLANTA (AP) The quarter-million people who drive the intersection of Interstate 85 and GA 316 every day will be getting some relief, but they’ll have to put up with 40 months of construction first. After decades of planning, the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) on Nov. 21...

Lou-Con’s Development Acumen Proves Prosperous

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CEG - Having spent years working in housing and commercial development, both Shay Baird and Louis Matthews recognized one thing: the industry was in need of a contractor that understood the development business.“I think contractors in the past didn’t understand the importance of timi...

Contractors Complete Key Phase of 17th Street Bridge

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G.W. Hall - Contractors involved in building Atlanta’s new 17th Street Bridge reached a major milestone recently when they set the last of the structure’s 48 steel beams in place. “The beam setting operations have been as smooth as we could have imagined,” said Mickey McGee, m...

TEC Hosts Two Successful Paving Schools for Customers

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CEG - The first week of March was a busy time for Tractor and Equipment Co. (TEC) paving specialists because of two successful Paving Schools held in north and south Georgia. The one-day schools were provided for TEC’s paving contractors at no charge. Stan Lamb, a Blaw-Knox repres...

ZX200LC/Shinn Combo Reduces Tree to Chips in Seconds

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Stephany Boyd - When contractor David Bonheimer found himself in the market for a machine rugged enough to withstand the rigors of his land-clearing business, the Hitachi ZX200LC Zaxis excavator from J.W. Burress was clearly a standout. The owner of Southern Clearing Inc. in Matthews, NC, knew he needed ...

Allied Rings in 60 Years Of Success With Celebration

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Amanda L. Gutshall - Sixty years after its inception, Allied Construction Products Inc., of Cleveland, OH, has seen a variety of owners but has stayed true to customer support and quality of equipment, making it an even stronger entity as the company celebrates this milestone.With its current owners All...

U.S. Group Transforms Highway 601

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G.W. Hall - Travel between Orangeburg and St. Matthews, SC, will become faster and easier in 2003, when the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) and U.S. Group Inc. complete a $15.1-million road widening project on U.S. Highway 601. The work will transform the main roadway linking the ...

Rea Makes its Mark on South Carolina, One Road at a Time

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Diane Jowers - Rea Construction Company is widening St. Matthews Road in Orangeburg, SC, from two lanes to four lanes. The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) project started in September of last year, and the scheduled completion date is November 2001. Rea Area Operations Manager Sinkler Boone ...