A journalist who started his career at a weekly community newspaper, Irwin Rapoport has written about construction and architecture for more than 15 years, as well as a variety of other subjects, such as recycling, environmental issues, business supply chains, property development, pulp and paper, agriculture, solar power and energy, and education. Getting the story right and illustrating the hard work and professionalism that goes into completing road, bridge, and building projects is important to him. A key element of his construction articles is to provide readers with an opportunity to see how general contractors and departments of transportation complete their projects and address challenges so that lessons learned can be shared with a wider audience.
Rapoport has a BA in History and a Minor in Political Science from Concordia University. His hobbies include hiking, birding, cycling, reading, going to concerts and plays, hanging out with friends and family, and architecture. He is keen to one day write an MA thesis on military and economic planning by the Great Powers prior to the start of the First World War.
Lathrop Turner is building a $385 million, 13-story, L-shaped 302-bed patient care tower — Generations of Care Tower — on the campus of ProMedica Toledo Hospital....
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Nearly one-third of the work has been completed on the Michigan Department of Transportation's $165 million 75 Rouge River-Detroit-Downriver Connection bridge project....
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The Music Hall in Cincinnati — owned by the city, built in 1878 and designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1975 — is nearing the end of a $135 millionplus renovation....
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The Alabama Department of Transportation is spending more than $700 million to rebuild and upgrade a 2-mi. stretch of Interstate 59/20 that runs through downtown Birmingham via a three phase project that started in September 2015 and will be completed in 2020....
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Crews from Kenmore Construction Inc. are widening a 5.6-mi. stretch of Interstate 76 from two lanes to three lanes in each direction between SR 21 and Central Avenue....
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KCI Construction Co. crews are fully engaged in the Missouri Department of Transportation's (MoDOT) ongoing $80 million Congressman William “Bill” Clay Sr....
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The 90,000 cars and trucks that daily travel along a 3.7-mi. stretch of M-59/Hall Road between M-53 and Romeo Plank are the biggest challenge for the crews of Angelo Iafrate Construction as they work to complete the $60 million rebuilding of the highway....
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Construction and renovation of ProMedica's new Downtown Headquarters project in Toledo will soon wrap up. The $80 million project is being managed by the Rudolph Libbe Group....
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Because this bridge is a signature river crossing, the DOT is working with local officials and community leaders to design the aesthetics of the bridge....
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Investigations of the dam structure revealed that the concrete spillway is deteriorated and has a very low safety level....
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The addition of roundabouts will change the look and feel along the roadway....
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The original road was built in the 1930s and on a daily basis carries approximately 19,000 cars and trucks....
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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation's (WisDOT's) $1.2 billion reconstruction and expansion of Interstate 39/90 in south-central Wisconsin is well under way....
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The city of Wadsworth is the center of a $12.4 million Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) road project that is widening a section of SR 94 (High Street) to two lanes in each direction with an added median in the center and a multi-use path....
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Detroit's Adamo Demolition Company, which has demolished more than 2,600 homes and 100 apartment buildings and schools in Detroit since 2014, has depended upon its two equipment dealers — Michigan CAT and Alta Equipment — to look after the complete maintenance of its fleet since 2006....
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More than 10,700 homes, apartment buildings, schools and other buildings have been demolished by approximately 20 demolition contractors since 2014....
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Funding for the $80.7 million project was provided by the states Corridors of Commerce program, created in 2013 by the Minnesota Legislature....
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It took subcontractors three years to remove the contaminated radioactive materials from the site, a former nuclear research and depleted uranium weapons facility....
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation placed the building on its 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list....
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Concrete Applied Technologies Corporation (Catco) began work on Rochester's $21 million Inner Loop East Transformation Project in May 2015 and expects to complete the project in September 2017....
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