Huntsville
20 Decatur
State Supplement sponsored by:
231
65
72 Florence
2
72
565 59
43 231
31
5
ALABAMA STATE EDITION
431
Gadsden
78 59
A Supplement to:
Anniston
20
Birmingham Bessemer
82 Tuscaloosa
65 280
20 82 Auburn
80
85
Selma
Phenix City
Montgomery
82 65
231
43 84 431 331
84
THOUSANDS of units in service
84 52 Dothan
31
45
Shipment in 1-3 days
65 98
Mobile
10
®
SAME DAY shipping on parts & tools FULLY SUPPORTED by a 75 YEAR FAMILY BUSINESS
November 7 2018
10% off 10,000 ft. lb. hammers
Vol. XXXI • No. 23
“The Nation’s Best Read Construction Newspaper… Founded in 1957.” Your Alabama Connection • Rich Olivier, Atlanta, GA • 1-800-409-1479
Why pay more?
CALL 800-367-4937 *On approved credit • Financing Available
Brisco Construction Moves Quickly Trustees Authorize From SANY Rental to Ownership Bidding Process for Heath Seelbinder has spent his whole life in and around the construction business, and he knows a good deal when he sees one. Seelbinder struck out on his own nine years ago when he founded Brisco Construction in Riverside, Ala. Since then, then he has devoted a great deal of his valuable time to tracking down the right machines for his small-scale operation and a distributor he can truly call a partner. That long search bore fruit in February 2018, when he rented a SANY SY215LC excavator from Southland Machinery. “This is my first machine from Southland Machinery,” Seelbinder said. “I have never rented a machine from them except for this SANY, a machine which was eventually converted to a purchase.” Seelbinder had never rented or even demoed the SANY see BRISCO page 10
University Stadium
Pride in its SANY excavator recently led Brisco Construction to add an eye-catching machine wrap.
Heath Seelbinder (L) of Brisco Construction and Brian Phillips of Southland Machinery meet to discuss the new SANY excavator.
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) University of South Alabama trustees have voted to move forward with construction of a $72 million on-campus football stadium for the 2020 season. President Tony Waldrop authorized the bidding process to start the second phase work on the stadium, Al.com reported. He said bids need to start now to meet the desired 2020 opening timetable. South Alabama has played home games at the cityowned Ladd-Peebles Stadium since it began football, and it asked the city for $10 million to help build a new stadium on the campus. However, the city refused to put that amount of funds into the project recently. “We will not have the ability to award the bid until we go back to the board again,” the school’s athletic director Joel Erdmann said after the vote. The new stadium would be built at the current intramural field on campus, near the practice facility under construction. City Council members refused the request, prompting the school’s fundraising effort. Waldrop says officials want to finance a stadium without raising tuition on students. The school recently announced a fundraising campaign to raise money for the stadium. Trustees in June approved plans for construction of a 25,000-seat football stadium. Mayor Sandy Stimpson supported the plan, saying it would save the city money over the long run as opposed to maintaining the municipally owned LaddPeebles Stadium. Some council members questioned what would happen to Ladd-Peebles Stadium, where the Senior Bowl and Dollar General Bowl games are played each year, as well as a slate of high school games. There was also tension over shifting investment from a predominantly African American neighborhood near downtown hotels and restaurants to a more suburban area. The mayor said in a statement that the city will accumulate $225 million in maintenance for Ladd, which opened in 1948. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)