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August 10 2019 Vol. XX • No. 16
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Army Corps’ First-Ever P3 Project Presses On
The Social Responsibility of Manufacturers...10
Photo Courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District Quick Turnaround for Missouri Interchange...12
Kirby-Smith Wins Triple Crown Award...48
Earth work operations to excavate the channel on the work site for the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Inlet Structure in July 2017.
By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ $2,841,062,000 (current estimate) FargoMoorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project is pressing forward, and one of the ongoing elements is the $46,040,475 Diversion Inlet Structure (DIS) initiative in the city of Horace, N.D. (Cass County), which the Corps awarded to Ames Construction Inc. The overall project, while overseen and managed by the Corps, has contracts
“The project will provide flood risk reduction for more than 230,000 people and 70 square miles of infrastructure in the communities of Fargo, Moorhead, West Fargo, Horace and Harwood.” Terry Williams U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
being awarded by the Corps and by the Metro Flood Diversion Authority, the city of Fargo, N.D., and the city of Moorhead, Minn., the non-federal sponsors (NFS). The Project Partnership Agreement, signed on July 11, 2016, and amended last March, limits the federal share of the project to $750 million plus inflation — $98,049,996 spent thus far. Moreover, the Fargo-Moorhead project is the first from the Corps to use a publicprivate partnership (P3), which is expected to start operations in 2020. see FARGO-MOORHEAD page 52
Table of Contents ............4 Backhoes & Attachments Section ......................53-65 Paving Section ..........75-89 Business Calendar ........92 Auction Section…....94-99 Advertisers Index ..........98
Leaders Laud Transportation Infrastructure Act The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee unveiled the America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act (ATIA), which authorizes $287 billion in funding from the Highway Trust Fund for the nation’s surface transportation programs over the next five years. The legislation, which was unanimously advanced out of committee, includes provisions to improve road safety, streamline project delivery, protect the environment and grow the economy. ATIA represents a 27 percent increase over the highway funding previously authorized under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act. Provisions in the bill allows states to use federal highway funding for
lock and dam modernization and rehabilitation projects to address aging and inadequate water infrastructure that threatens the viability of farmers, manufacturers, shippers and other stakeholders. Industry leaders recently weighed in with their thoughts. ARTBA “The reports of the death of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill have been greatly exaggerated at least when it comes to transportation policy,” American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) President and CEO Dave Bauer said. see ACT page 74