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Crews Blast for Essentia’s $800M Duluth Campus Essentia Health photo
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Highway Equipment Establishes New ‘Health Check’...20
Cunningham Paving Adds Two 8520Bs to Its LeeBoy Fleet...29
Crews demolish a parking garage on Essentia Health’s medical campus in downtown Duluth, Minn. A new hospital and clinic space are under construction.
By Irwin Rapoport
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CEG CORRESPONDENT
Paving Section ......29-45
Twice-daily blasting is required at the site of a 12-story hospital bed tower, which is part of Essentia Health's $800 million Vision Northland project on its medical campus in downtown
Attachments Section...... ..............................60-79 Auction Section ..94-103
Advertisers Index ....102
began. The next step was to remove more than 44,000 cu. yds. of basalt (volcanic) rock by blasting and mechanical means so that crews could start on the tower’s foundation in the spring. see ROCK page 98
UNL Demolishes ‘The Link’ for $160M Addition By Cindy Riley CEG CORRESPONDENT
Business Calendar......96
Duluth, Minn. The construction project began on Sept. 25, 2019, with the interior demolition of the twostory Amendola Building; two other smaller structures; and a parking ramp — the Blue Ramp — a 60 to 70 ft.-tall structure. On Oct. 11, exterior demolition operations
At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, construction crews have successfully completed demolition of the Link between Scott Engineering Center and Nebraska Hall.
Foundation work is now under way on the first of two school projects totaling $160 million. “The College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is undergoing a major multi-phase facilities initiative to transform our teaching and research enterprises,” said Lance C. Pérez, dean of the College
of Engineering. “The initiative includes three distinct phases. Demolition of the 34-year-old building called 'the Link’ is part of the $75 million Phase I project. “We are replacing this structure with a new building that will reconnect Scott Engineering see UNL page 50