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Lunda Builds New Kellogg/Third Street Bridge in St. Paul, Minn.

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Dick Rohland – CEG Correspondent - With a panoramic view of the city skyline before them, residents living on top of Dayton's Bluff in the greater Eastside neighborhood of St. Paul, Minn., can see a new bridge take form to reconnect them to Lowertown and the downtown business and entertainment district. ...

Lunda Wins $53.6M Kellogg/3rd Street Bridge Project Contract in St. Paul, Minn.

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Tutor Perini Corporation - Tutor Perini Corporation, a leading civil, building and specialty construction company, announced June 20 that its subsidiary, Lunda Construction Company, has been awarded a project by the city of St. Paul, Minn., valued at approximately $53.6 million for the Kel...

Lunda, Parsons Collaborate On $218.5M Rocheport Bridge Replacement

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - With a goal of replacing the Interstate 70 Missouri River Bridge near Rocheport, work crews in Jefferson City, Mo., have been blasting and excavating rock to pave the way for actual construction of the new structure. The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is overseeing the undertaking,...

Lunda Construction Announces $239M Joint Venture Project

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CEG - Tutor Perini Corporation, a civil, building and specialty construction company, announced Aug. 4, that a joint venture team comprised of its subsidiary, Lunda Construction Co., together with Ames Construction and Shafer Contracting Co., is being awarded a contract valued at approximately $239 mil...

Lunda Finishes Fifth, Final Step of Hwy. 610

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Irwin Rapoport - Scheduled to be fully completed in the spring of 2017, crews from Lunda Construction Company are working on the fifth and final section of the Minnesota Department of Transportation's (MnDOT) Highway 610 design-build project that is extending the well-travelled road to Interstate 94 from the ...

AGC of Minnesota’s Milt Lunda Dies at 88

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CEG - AGC of Minnesota member Milt Lunda, 88, of Lunda Construction Company in Black River Falls, Minn., passed away Dec. 11 at Black River Memorial Hospital under the care of Black River Hospice.Lunda was born Aug. 30, 1920, in Mount Horeb, Wis. He grew Lunda Construction Company into a nationa...

Lunda ’Floats’ Bridge Building Idea in WI

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Dick Rohland - A popular and well traveled Mississippi River bridge crossing through the southern regions of the states of Wisconsin and Minnesota recently opened and expanded traffic capacity and flow to the relief of interstate travelers and commuters. Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and local and state of...

New Eastbound Rocheport Bridge Construction On Schedule

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Missouri Department of Transportation - The last steel girder was placed Sept. 11, marking a major milestone in the construction of the new eastbound Lance Corporal Leon Deraps I-70 Missouri River (Rocheport) Bridge. With the final girder in place, crews will now be able to place cross frames and wind bracing on this final span, and th...

Crews Make Upgrades to Highway 10 in Anoka, Minn.

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Dick Rohland – CEG Correspondent - Residents of Anoka, Minn., are on a winter hiatus from a two-year, $85 million project that includes a major state highway rebuild that has a particular nasty bite to it because of the complexity of the local street network, very tight workspace and detailed traffic control. At times, homeowners ...

MoDOT Picks Design-Build Contractor for New I-70 Bridge

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Missouri DOT - The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission on July 1 announced the selection of the Lunda Team, made up of Lunda Construction Co., Parsons Transportation Group Inc., Dan Brown & Associates and Hugh Zeng United, as the design-build contractor to replace the Interstate 70 Misso...

Work Resumes On Michigan's Firesteel River Bridge

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is overseeing a $12.8 million project on M-26 over the east and west branches of the Firesteel River. The work is taking place in Ontonagon County in the western Upper Peninsula. "The project is needed to replace two bridge...

Historic Minneapolis Bridge Receives Facelift

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Minneapolis's 10th Avenue SE River Bridge is getting a makeover. Considered a crucial transportation element of the riverfront area, the open spandrel column arch structure, built in 1929, has carried traffic over the Mississippi River for nine decades, serving 10,000 motor v...

Crews Place Keystone on Iowa-Illinois Bridge

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Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Crews are well into construction of the second arch of the I-74 Mississippi River Bridge. Construction of the new bridge began in July 2017. The westbound bridge is anticipated to be completed by the end of 2020 and the eastbound bridge in 2021. The new bridge will be mor...

Crews Replace 'Half-Historic' Bridge at Border

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Construction began in June 2018 on the three-year, $39.3 million Baudette-Rainy River International Bridge Replacement project at the U.S.-Canada border, a joint venture of the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Ministry of Transport–Ontario (MT...

I-74 Bridge Links Illinois-Iowa 'Quad Cities'

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Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - A $1.2 billion bridge replacement is currently under way in a cooperative effort between the Iowa and Illinois Departments of Transportation. The I-74 Mississippi River Bridge project is part of an overall plan to improve the I-74 corridor from Moline, Ill., to Davenport,...

Minneapolis Aims for Congestion-Free Travel

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - The Minnesota Department of Transportation's (MnDOT) $239 million, multi-year 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown project reached its first year of construction in July as crews from a joint-venture, consisting of Ames Construction, Lunda Contracting Co....

Quad Cities See $1.2B Span Over Mississippi

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Eric Olson - It is hard to imagine a pair of structures more in need of replacement than the two that make up the Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge.More commonly known together as the Interstate 74 Bridge, the twin suspension spans transport about 80,000 vehicles across the Mississippi River each day betwe...

MnDOT's Hwy. 5 Project Enters Second Phase

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Irwin Rapoport - The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is spending $13.8 million to rebuild the deck of the Highway 5 bridge/West 7th Street Bridge, an east-west, 1,999-ft. (609.3 m) long span (two lanes in each direction) across the Mississippi River.The project, which started last April and ...

OSHA Fines Construction Company

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CEG - Wisconsin Public Radio is reporting that federal agents are fining a Black River Falls-based construction company $105,000 after an investigation found that safety violations resulted in the injury of one worker and death of another during a bridge construction project in the Twin Ports last fall...

$600M Bridge to Connect Minn., Wis. Under Way

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Irwin Rapoport - The St. Croix Crossing that will connect Oak Park Heights, Minn., and St. Joseph, Wis., will be open to traffic in the fall of 2017 when crews from the joint-venture of the Lunda Construction Company and Ames Construction Inc. complete the substantial construction project. The $617 to $646 millio...

Wisconsin Project Gets Lift Featuring Manitowoc MLC300

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CEG - Manitowoc’s MLC300 crawler crane, which features the variable position counterweight (VPC), made a big debut at ConExpo 2014. One year later, a new MLC300 has performed on its first job site, and the owner couldn’t be more pleased with its performance. The MLC300 belongs to Mil...

Bridge Crews Float Steel Arch to New Bridge in Minn.

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Dick Rohland - With a glass-like river surface, patience and precision maneuvering, bridge workers floated and hoisted a 545 ft. (166 m) long free standing tied arch to its place on the new Hastings, Minn., bridge. Shooting to open the bridge to two lanes of traffic by early summer, 2013, it will have the longe...

New Road to Open in Busy Minnesota Tourist Town

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Dick Rohland - Road workers and their equipment will soon complete an ambitious project to rehabilitate a 10 mi. (16 km) stretch of I-35 leading into the core of Duluth, Minn., an upper Midwest tourist destination and major international shipping port. Much of the work was confined to a 4 mi. (6.4 km) stretch o...

High Waters Halt Minnesota Bridge Work Near Hastings

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Dick Rohland - Rising waters and swift currents halted construction on a new, $120 million bridge over the Mississippi River that will feature the longest free standing arch main span in North America. At a river crossing richly embedded in Minnesota’s transportation history, bridge crews from the joint v...

Unique Interchange on Schedule, on Budget for St. Paul/Minneapolis Region

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Dick Rohland - Construction of an offset single point interchange, a first of its kind for the state of Minnesota, recently hit the halfway point of a 15-month construction schedule. Located just north of St. Paul, the new interchange will replace an existing and more traditional diamond interchange.The ...

New Bridges Will Ease Twin Cities Congestion

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Dick Rohland - Bridge crews are on schedule to complete a series of three new bridges along a 20 mi. (32 km) stretch of I35, a high volume freeway linking the Twin Cities of St. Paul/Minneapolis metro region north to the city of Duluth, a busy international shipping port and tourism destination, and south to th...

Losing Bridge Bidders Spell Out Reasons for Protest

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CEG - ST. PAUL (AP) Two losing bidders for the Interstate 35W bridge replacement fleshed out their protest of the state’s contract awarding procedure on Sept. 25, saying transportation officials penalized them for proposing steel bridges instead of one made of concrete.A lawyer for C.S. Mc...

Flatiron Constructors to Build New Minn. Bridge

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CEG - The joint venture of Flatiron Constructors of Longmont, Colo., and Manson Construction of Seattle, Wash., has been selected as the firm to rebuild the I-35W bridge in downtown Minneapolis. The winning proposal was determined using the state’s design-build, best value procurement model which...

Work on Crosstown Traffic Tangle to Begin in St. Paul

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CEG - ST. PAUL (AP) Rebuilding the traffic tangle where Interstate 35W and Crosstown Highway 62 intersect near the border of Minneapolis and Richfield is scheduled to begin in June, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) said.MnDOT received two bids from road building teams on March ...

MnDOT Awards $120M Contract

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Dick Rohland - The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) recently awarded a $120-million contract to Lunda Construction Company of Black River Falls, WI, to remove and replace the I-494 bridge crossing of the Mississippi River just south of St. Paul. Included in this contract is the complete r...