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2015 FAST Act Law Funded More Than 110,000 Road, Bridge Improvements

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ARTBA - State governments moved forward with nearly 111,000 new federal-aid highway and bridge projects during the past five years under the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act law, new research from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTB...

UMA to Break NCDOT Record for Largest Square Footage of Soil Nail Wall

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UMA - UMA Geotechnical Construction, a North Carolina-based geotechnical contractor serving the Mid-Atlantic Region, is working on a project that will become the largest square footage of soil nail walls done under a single contract in North Carolina Department of Transportatio...

Repairs to Four Delaware Water Gap Bridges to Begin in April

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New Jersey Herald - Parts of U.S. Highway 209 in far eastern Pennsylvania, the most heavily traveled road owned by the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, will be closed or have restricted traffic beginning in spring 2021 as improvements and upgrades are done on four bridge structures. The work will...

Burlington, Vt., to Do Pre-Planning for Railyard Road Project

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VTDigger - Preliminary engineering on Burlington, Vt.'s railyard enterprise construction project, which will link Pine Street with Battery Street, is slated to begin this summer. The city has long hoped to connect the two major roadways downtown, in part to ease traffic on nearby King and Maple stre...

MassDOT Seeks Federal Funds as State Bridges Fall into Disrepair

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Lowell Sun - You don't have to drive underneath one of the thousands of decaying bridges in Massachusetts to know that the state's infrastructure is far from perfect, but a recent federal report indicates that things are only getting worse. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)...

State Receives $493 Million Federal Funds From FHWA

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Caltrans - Caltrans announced that the state will receive more than $493 million in additional transportation funding from the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) annual August redistribution. "These federal funds will help Caltrans and local agencies invest in improving the tra...

Contractors Serve as First Responders After Hurricane

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CEG - Contractors, equipment dealers and the heavy equipment they provide are infrastructure's first responders when natural disasters hit. When Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana on Aug. 27 as a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 150 mph., its destructive path reached the eas...

New Details Released on Schell Bridge Project in Massachusetts

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CEG - Northfield, Mass., residents are learning more about the Schell Bridge reconstruction project in their town. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will be overseeing the work when it is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2022. The proposed project cons...

Asphalt Producers Among Nation's Top Recyclers

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National Asphalt Pavement Association - Asphalt, you ask, has gone green? Yes, and they're not new players in the space, either, according to NAPA. The country's most diligent recyclers are asphalt mixture producers, who utilize more than 94 percent of old asphalt pavements in new pavement construction. Civil engineerin...

California Gets 'Quick Relief' Funds for Wildfire Damage

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AASHTO - The Federal Highway Administration recently issued two packets of "quick release" Emergency Relief or ER funds to California (and Oregon) agencies to pay for repairs to transportation infrastructure damaged by wildfires raging across several western states. Since the begi...