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Vol. XlIX • No. 10
“The Nation’s Best Read Construction Newspaper… Founded in 1957.” Your New England States Connection • Amanda Hogeboom-Merritt 1-800-988-1203
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if you have driven along busy route 24 in taunton and raynham for the past year, you can’t help but notice the heavy iron and the pre-cast piles, and the large cranes surrounding both sides of the highway in a major roadway project that has become a landmark for passing commuters. in October 2014, two liebherr lr 1200 cranes were mobilized on the site, utilized by general contractor S& r construction of lowell, mass., for approximately nine months. according to massDOt, the four-lane $17 million highway project, just south of exit 13-a, will be completed in September. it requires the complete rehabilitation of the bridge that traverses the taunton river, a major stretch of highway in and out of a large shopping area in taunton. the old bridge is not being replaced, but completely re-fabricated with more pre-fabrication concrete than S&r corp. has ever assembled. “the brutal winter stopped construction activities for approximately eight weeks, said eric W. Jones, S&r construction division manager regarding replacing the heavily-traveled highway bridge.
Bay Crane Northeast is involved with crane work and hauling PBUs.
see S&r page 8
WHA Board Embarks on First New Construction Project in Two Decades By Penelope Overton (Waterbury) republican-american
Waterbury, conn. (ap) not so long ago, Jim lawlor believed that Willow Street, with its blighted houses, weedchoked vacant lots and drug crime, was no place to raise children. When a developer asked for his support for the renovation of an apartment building there, lawlor, the chairman of the city’s housing board, immediately said no, children don’t belong there.
“then it hit me,” lawlor said. “Willow isn’t going to fix itself.” instead of running from Willow, lawlor decided to embrace the struggling neighborhood. He devised a $38 million proposal to buy, raze, and rebuild the entire city block of West Grove Street. it would be the authority’s first new construction in two decades. in recent years, at the direction of its former chairman, WHa has taken steps to demolish its public housing, not add to it. see rENOVAtION page 18