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May 8 2010 Vol. VI • No. 10
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New Bridge a Necessity for Bear Lake Area…13
Despite Ash Cloud, Bauma 2 0 1 0 D r a w s W e l l… 1 2
Texas Stadium Goes Out With a Bang At 7:08 a.m. on April 11, 2010, 11-yearold Casey Rogers of Terrell, Tex., pushed a red button and Texas Stadium, the iconic home of the five-time World Champion Dallas Cowboys, Irving, Tex., ceased to exist. Casey earned the honor of pushing the button when his essay won the “Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Cheddar Explosion” essay contest. The essay focused on how he started a charity called Casey’s Heart when he was 8 years old to help the homeless in the Dallas area. Going out with a huge bang, with more than 20,000 people watching onsite and many more around the world via television, was a fitting end for the 37-year-old stadium. Storied History Texas Stadium opened on October 24, see STADIUM page 8
Weir Bros. had to fill the stadium bowl 40-plus ft. (12-plus m) to reach final grade.
Building With Imminent California Diesel Earthquakes on Horizon Emissions Rule Cat Auction Services Holds Event in Houston…58
Table of Contents ............4 Wheel Loaders Section...... ..................................23-29 Paving Section ........43-49 Parts Section ................51 Business Calendar ........51 Auction Section ......55-63 Advertisers Index ..........62
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Considered Risky
With earthquakes rumbling in places like Haiti, Chile, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and, ominously, the Mexican peninsula right below California, Americans surely wonder when The Big One will strike the United States. The good news is that seismic engineers, architects and contractors are preparing for that day by building structures that will withstand the shaking. Yet it is a work in progress. “All major buildings being designed in the United States are designed for earthquake resistance,”
California’s plan to require construction contractors to install large and expensive emissions reduction kits on their off-road diesel equipment will put workers’ lives at risk and force job cuts, a prominent union official and a member of the Associated General Contractors of America told federal officials April 14. As a result, both asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration to deny or delay a decision to allow the state to proceed with its off-road rule. “Denying this rule is the only way to protect the men and women working in California’s construction industry from a new and grave risk of injury and death,” said Guy Prescott, a representative of the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local Union Three. “This rule will lead to additional fatalities.” Prescott noted that the large filters and new exhaust
By Giles Lambertson
see QUAKE page 21
Shown here are steel self-centering moment resisting frame (SC-MRFs) tests and steel self-centering concentrically braced frame (SC-CBF) tests performed at Lehigh’s NEES Equipment Site. These systems are new concepts developed at Lehigh University for new construction as well as for seismic retrofit.
see DIESEL page 42