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Wow Everyone on Your List With Construction-Inspired Gifts...8
Brandywine, Drexel Break Ground on $3.5B Schuylkill Yards...98
Some pieces of the old bridge will escape the crushers and furnaces and be trucked to upstate towns looking to save thousands of dollars on their own bridge projects.
Pieces of N.Y.’s Tappan Zee BridgeFind New Life By Mary Esch ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ritchie Bros. Holds Unreserved Auction in Pittsburgh...128
Table of Contents................ 4 Paving Section.............. 57-71 Trailers Section............ 75-89
Steel and concrete panels that were once part of a mighty bridge that carried 50 million vehicles a year across the Hudson River north of New York City will find new life spanning streams along sleepy country roads. With traffic now whizzing across its shiny replacement, the 61-year-old Tappan Zee Bridge is being painstakingly dismantled in a process that will stretch into 2019. Barges haul
Auction Section...... 122-141 Business Calendar.......... 141 Advertisers Index............ 142
years ago, but only 135 met specific local requirements were spoken for. The demolition contractor will disassemble and peddle the rest. “We’re estimating it will save us about $100,000 per bridge,” said Jim Dougan, deputy public works superintendent in northern New York’s Essex County, which may build up to five bridges with the dozen pre-fab panels it requested. “For a county with about 38,000 residents, that’s pretty important.” Seven other counties also requested some see BRIDGE page 118
$50M Project Under Way on Delaware Station
Cindy Riley Snow & Ice Section 113-117 By CEG CORRESPONDENT
Parts Section....................118
sections upriver to Albany and downriver to Perth Amboy, N.J., where ground-up concrete will be sold for highway construction and steel will be melted down and recycled. Some pieces of the old bridge will escape the crushers and furnaces and be trucked to upstate towns looking to save thousands of dollars on their own bridge projects. Those parts include some of the 2,000 steel-and-concrete deck panels. New York’s Thruway Authority offered 150 to local governments for the bargain price of $1 apiece when the Tappan Zee project began four
A more than $50 million project that’s been years in the making is finally under way in Delaware. An improved Newark Rail Station is being constructed in the location of the existing SEPTA rail station, west of SR 896 in Newark. “The existing Newark train station has minimal passenger facilities, inadequate
parking and other deficiencies,” said Mark Tudor, assistant director, project development north, Delaware Department of Transportation. “It cannot accommodate high-level platforms required by the Federal Railroad Administration [FRA] and the Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA]. The current rail configuration also limits Carlo Maiale, Century Engineering photo opportunities to minimize conflicts with The project is intended to be the first phase of additional see RAIL page 106
potential improvements to the new station.