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August 1, 2015 • Vol. IXX • No. 16 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
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HH Fabrication & Repair Hos ts Open House...12
Architect Chosen to Design $22M Sports Complex MANDAN, N.D. (AP) Mandan Park Board officials have chosen the architect to design a $22 million sports complex in the city. Voters in June approved a threefourths percent sales tax to fund the facility near the Tesoro oil
refinery north of Interstate 94. The Bismarck Tribune reported that Bismarck-based JLG Architects will design it. The sports complex will include a two-rink hockey arena, gymnastics facilities, and a foot-
ball and track field. The existing football and track field will be converted into ball fields. Kevin Ruhland with JLG Architects said the project could be awarded to contractors next February. Collection of the sales tax is
expected to start in October. The tax will end when all construction costs are paid. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
Business to Congress…
NDA Member Demolishes Wr igley’s Bleachers...16
CAWGC Awards Scho larsh ips. .. 24
Table of Contents ............4 Backhoes & Attachments Section ......................55-65 Paving Section ..........77-89 Auction Section ......93-101 Business Calendar ........94 Advertisers Index ........102
Crude Oil Export Ban Bad for Jobs Lifting the crude oil export ban will help reverse the downturn in employment and business activity experienced by suppliers of equipment, products and services to crude oil drilling operations, a prominent pump manufacturer told a U.S. House Committee recently. Mark Kreinbihl, group president of Gorman-Rupp Company of Mansfield, Ohio, testified to the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power in favor of a bill under consideration that would repeal the 1970s-era prohibition on exporting domestically-produced crude oil. Testifying for his company and as a member of the Energy Equipment and Infrastructure Alliance (EEIA), a shale energy supply chain trade group, Kreinbihl demonstrated the close correlation of his company’s pump business to the U.S. oil and gas drilling rig count. “From a point in late 2014, the U.S. rig count plunged from about 1,800 to 800, while at the same time our orders have followed the rig count down, declining by 40 percent from late 2014 through this June,” he noted. Gorman-Rupp’s pumps are used extensively in hydraulic fracturing-related crude see OIL page 94
By mid-fall 2015 the Renner Boulevard and K-10 interchange construction should be complete and fully open to traffic.
Kansas’s Ongoing Gateway Project Moves Toward Phase 2 By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
Planning for the construction of the Kansas Department of Transportation’s (KDOT) ongoing Johnson County Gateway Project (Phase 2) in Kansas City — the first design-build project to be initiated by the DOT —began in mid-2008 when a three-year concept study was launched. The $288 million project is the largest one to be awarded in the state’s history. “The project is needed to alleviate congestion problems both now and in the future in Johnson
County,” said Burt Morey, KDOT’s Gateway project director. “This is the confluence of three major highways — Interstate 35, I-45, and K-10 — and about 230,000 vehicles a day pass through this area. It is expected to go to 360,000 vehicles by 2040. “We didn’t have enough [funds] to do the entire project,” he added, “so there is going to be another phase. The project that we are doing today will handle about 80 percent of the problems and as we get more funding, it will be good through 2040.” see KDOT page 76