Oct 14, 2020
Omaha Invests $300M to Transform Riverfront
In downtown Omaha, construction crews are busy both tearing down and building up as they work on a three-phase park project certain to transform the riverfront city....
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Lori Tobias
CEG Correspondent
Lori Tobias is a career journalist, formerly on staff as the Oregon Coast reporter at The Oregonian and as a columnist and features writer at the Rocky Mountain News. She is the author of the memoir, Storm Beat - A Journalist Reports from the Oregon Coast, and the novel Wander, winner of the Nancy Pearl Literary Award in 2017. She has freelanced for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Denver Post, Alaska Airlines in-flight, Natural Home, Spotlight Germany, Vegetarian Times and the Miami Herald. She is an avid reader, enjoys kayaking, traveling and exploring the Oregon Coast where she lives with her husband Chan and rescue pups, Gus and Lily.
Oct 7, 2020
Rhode Island's $77M Project Involves Preserving or Replacing 15 Bridges
Preparation work is under way on a $77 million project to replace, preserve or rehabilitate 15 bridges on Rhode Island's Route 37. "Route 37 is a critical east-west highway that serves 42,000 vehicles per day, connecting Rhode Island's second and third largest cities, as well as I-95, I-295 and U.S....
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Oct 7, 2020
Heavy Equipment Operators: First Responders
As firefighters worked nearly 20 major wildfires across the west coast, including California and Oregon, crews counted on the help of heavy equipment operators to get the infernos under control....
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Oct 6, 2020
Crews Turn to Geofoam on Railroad Bridge Project
A railroad bridge that is being constructed by Wadsworth Brothers Construction, part of the Utah Department of Transportation's (UDOT) $82 million 5600 W. project, is likely the largest installation of Geofoam ever used in the state, and may be among the largest in the United States....
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Sep 16, 2020
Crews Reach Milestone on Transform 285/400 Project
Three and a half years after construction began on Georgia's Transform 285/400 project, construction crews are nearing a major milestone on the job to improve traffic congestion and enhance safety in the area through the I-285/SR 400 interchange in metro Atlanta....
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Sep 2, 2020
'Bumblebee' Knocks Out Tunnel for $200M Louisville Project
As work on a unique $25 million pump station wraps up, a boring machine dubbed "Bumblebee" continues carving out a 4-mi., 18-story deep tunnel in Louisville, Ky....
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Aug 11, 2020
The Final Stretch of U.S. 191 Project
Work on a Moab, Utah, project that's been on the table in some form or another since 1993 is in the final stretch, with completion set for next year. The $31 million phase three will widen U.S....
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Jul 8, 2020
Nebraska DOT Improves U.S.-136 in Webster County
Work is under way on an $11 million project in Webster County, Neb., to resurface 11 mi. of U.S.-136. The contract was awarded to Werner Construction Inc. of Hastings, Neb....
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Jun 24, 2020
Crews Confront 'Very Challenging Job' on $500M Project
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....
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Jun 23, 2020
Wisconsin's $1.2B I-39/90 Entering Home Stretch
A $1.2 billion Wisconsin interstate project under construction since 2015 is now two-thirds completed. The WisDOT Interstate 39/90 project stretches 45 mi. from the Illinois border to the U.S....
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Jun 18, 2020
'Tip of the Iceberg' Project Includes $10M Terminal Integration Upgrade
These are busy days at the Burlington International Airport (BTV) in Vermont with numerous projects under way — finishing up or about to begin. The latter includes a $10 million Terminal Integration Project, known by its acronym TIP....
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Jun 16, 2020
Newer Technology Helps Build Highway in Hurricane
The final segment of a new highway in southern Utah is on track for completion early next year — despite a number of environmental challenges. The $75 million segment five of the Southern Parkway is an 8-mi....
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Jun 9, 2020
'Crossroads of the Country' Undergoing $23M Update
There's been talk around Kansas City of the need to modernize the outdated Turner Diagonal on I-70 for at least eight years. Then, about three years ago, stakeholders learned of the availability of a federal grant, applied and were awarded it....
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Jun 2, 2020
'Rest of the West' $455M Project Starts to Take Shape
With two new gantry cranes towering against the sky, there's no doubt a $455 million project outside of Seattle is well underway. It's part of a program the Washington DOT (WSDOT) calls the "Rest of the West," a series of projects for the remaining $1.6 billion in improvements to SR 520....
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May 27, 2020
Midwest's '500-Year-Flood' Causes Damage
Only hours after parts of Michigan experienced what is described as a 500-year flood, Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) engineers were preparing emergency inspection and repair contracts....
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May 26, 2020
$1.6B Guernsey Power Plant Will Have Strong Foundation
Work is under way on the foundation for a $1.6 billion, 1,850-megawatt, natural gas-fired energy generation facility in southern Guernsey County, Ohio, the heart of the state's Utica and Marcellus Shale gas development area....
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May 21, 2020
Maine Uses Design-Build Approach for Nine Spans Over Four-Mi. Stretch
Dump truck drivers will be busy in the coming months on a bridge project in Hampden, Maine. Their task: hauling 160,000 cu. yds. of fill material for the replacement of eight bridges and repair of one on I-95 just south of Bangor....
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May 19, 2020
Ames Moves 1.5 Million Tons of Fill in Tooele County
A project under discussion for 60-odd years will give Tooele County residents three miles of new highway and a much needed connection to I-80. Phase one of the $74.4 million Midvalley Highway (S.R....
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May 6, 2020
New System-to-System Interchange in Vegas Takes Shape
Workers on the $99 million I-15/215 Interchange project in north Las Vegas are seeing something of a silver lining in the pandemic that has shut down the city. "Traffic mitigation is an issue," said Nevada DOT spokesman Tony Illia....
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Apr 29, 2020
Foundation Work Complete on $136.6M Iowa Courthouse
Foundation work on a new $136.6 million federal courthouse in Des Moines is under way with augered pier work complete and pile cap installations and early work packages for the deep footings and site utilities started in March....
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