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September 17 2011 Vol. XVIII • No. 19
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IAAP Holds Annual Golf Outing...12
Lafayette Bridge Moves Forward Despite Snags The Lafayette bridge project is ringed by more than a dozen Manitowoc, Terex, American and Grove cranes of all sizes. Here, one of the smaller cranes on site, a Grove, picks material off a flatbed truck.
Wooldridge Co. Offers Rich Hist ory...22
Case Tri ple Threa t Rodeo Deli vers .. .65
Table of Contents ............4 Snow & Ice Section..35-41 Parts Section ................42 Attachment Section.45-50 Truck & Trailer Section .... ..................................55-61 Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section ....77-89 Auction Section ................ ......................Starts on 93 Business Calendar ........94 Advertisers Index ........102
By Dick Rohland CEG CORRESPONDENT
Construction on the new Lafayette Bridge, a major Mississippi River crossing in St. Paul, Minn., is making good progress despite bridge workers battling a cold, snow filled winter,
spring flooding, summer rains and more flooding. Adding to the challenge of working around Mother Nature’s whims, a state shutdown caused by a state legislative budget impasse, forced constructions crews off all state funded projects for nearly a month. At a bid cost of $133 million, the Minnesota
Department of Transportation (MnDOT) awarded the contract last year to Lunda Construction, a heavy construction contractor specializing in bridge construction. Lunda crews mobilized to the site earlier this year with more than two feet of snow blanketing see LAFAYETTE page 32
ARTBA Report Says Building Costs Will Rise The cost to build roads, runways and bridges mixture of choice for many state and local trans- its environmental benefits as a “green” building would increase by an estimated $104.6 billion portation departments and transportation engi- material — putting to use an energy production over the next 20 years if coal fly ash is no longer neers because of its performance enhancing and byproduct that reduces demand for carbonavailable as a transportation construction build- cost-saving benefits. It also has been praised for see ARTBA page 66 ing material, according to a new study by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF). BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder spoke at a news conference before the Fly ash is a byproduct of coal comSnyder said Aug. 21 that he is confident a public running of the Pure Michigan 400 NASCAR Sprint bustion for electricity generation. It is widely used as a supplementary bridge authority will be in place by October to over- Cup race at Michigan International Speedway. cementitious material in the produc- see the building of a proposed second span between He was asked about the status of a new bridge, see BRIDGE page 101 tion of concrete. Fly ash concrete is a Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
Mich. Gov. Says Bridge on Track
From now through the end of the year, please check out our new special Snow and Ice section. Pages 35-41