Midwest #01, 2011

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Midwest Edition

January 8 2011

Vol. XVIII • No. 1

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Freedom Tower…

Inside

One World Trade Center Reaches Halfway Mark

How to Properly Maintain Earth Augers...20

With an average daily traffic on the heavily traveled road of 26,730 cars, ODOT wanted to maintain two lanes of traffic in each direction at all times.

AGGCORP Teams With PK Crushing...47

Aggressive Schedule Set as I90 Upgrades Continue By Kathy Bergstrom CEG CORRESPONDENT

Kleeman Opens New Hi-Tech Plant...48

Table of Contents ........4 Attachment Section ...... ............................27-31 Recycling Section 47-54 Truck & Trailer......57-63 Auction Section....68-75 Business Calendar…..72 Advertisers Index ......74

Contractors working on a resurfacing project on a 5-mi. (8 km) stretch of Interstate 90 in northern Ohio are contending with an aggressive schedule, challenging soil conditions and traffic demands in the near two-year project. The $34.1 million project got under way in March and is scheduled for completion this fall. The expanse of four-lane highway is in Ashtabula County in northern Ohio east of State Route 11 to west of State Route 193/84. The Interstate’s westbound lanes have been repaved, and work will begin on the eastbound lanes soon. In addition to replacing the pavement, the project includes the rehabilitation of four highway bridges and four overhead bridges. One of the challenges of the project was the amount of temporary pavement that was installed, said Bill Glass, District 4

project engineer with the Ohio Department of Transportation. Average daily traffic on the heavily traveled road is 26,730 cars, and the DOT wanted to maintain two lanes of traffic in each direction at all times. In order to achieve that goal, general contractor Shelly & Smith of Zanesville, Ohio, had to install temporary pavement next to the existing eastbound lanes. Once that was completed last spring, one lane of westbound traffic was relocated to the eastbound side. On the westbound side, contractors replaced pavement a half width at a time to allow another lane of westbound traffic to remain open throughout the project. “They completely removed all of the existing concrete pavement and asphalt shoulders and completely rebuilt the pavement with brand new asphalt,” Glass said. “There was a substantial amount of temporary pavement involved in the project.” see I90 page 10

NEW YORK (AP) Steel construction has reached the halfway point for 1 World Trade Center, the building also known as the Freedom Tower. After years of stalled development, steel at the building reached the 52nd story on Thursday, more than 600 ft. (about 200 m) above ground. The tower is slated to stand at 104 stories, with an antenna reaching hundreds of feet higher, bringing it to a symbolic 1,776 ft. (541 m) — the tallest in the country. The U.S. declared independence from Britain the year 1776. The building was renamed to better attract corporate tenants, but the Freedom Tower name has stuck for many and still remains on the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation’s Web site detailing the rebuilding. On Dec. 16, a worker wearing a hard hat drove a bolt into a steel column on the 52nd floor. It takes so long for workers at the rising tower to return to the ground that a sandwich shop built out of shipping containers is being raised along with the building by a hydraulically powered platform. The skyscraper is one of several envisioned at the site, along with a Sept. 11 memorial, transit hub and performing arts center. The memorial, with reflecting pools set above the footprints of the fallen towers, is expected to open by the 10th anniversary of the 2001 attacks.

AEM Releases Annual Report In the just-released construction equipment “business outlook” survey of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM): • Construction machinery manufacturers predict overall business in the United States to close out 2010 with 6.4-percent growth, then gain 12.7 percent in 2011 and 14.8 percent in 2012, followed by 2013 see REPORT page 22


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