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Can You Hear Me Now? BRS Makes It So in Md. …8
M B Tractor Holds Demo, Rodeo in Rumney…14
Question Remains: What Will Rise at Ground Zero? By Jennifer Peltz ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW YORK (AP) The five skyscrapers were all supposed to rise by early next decade to replace the ravaged World Trade Center, with the city’s tallest towers set in a spiral evoking the Statue of Liberty’s torch. They would frame a massive memorial in a treefilled park, plus a theater and a transportation hub with uplifted wings — one of several symbols intended to defy the terrorists who destroyed the 16-acre site in under two hours. Standing on the site now — a multi-level labyrinth of concrete and steel, from the entrance resembling the rooftops of an underground city — the sweeping design unveiled 6 and a 1/2 years ago still hasn’t materialized. And while the most symbolic pieces of the puzzle at ground zero are taking shape, it’s become increasingly clear that the grand scheme will take decades to be fully completed, if it ever is at all. Vickie Cooper had mixed feelings as she peered through a fence at the site’s stark northeast corner, a spot reserved for a skyscraper now mired in arbitration over its financing.
New Design Unveiled for Brooklyn Arena…40
Table of Contents ............4 Paving Section ........57-71 Mini & Compact Equipment Section ..75-93 Parts Section ..............120 Business Calendar ......127 Auction Section ..127-144 Advertisers Index........142
see TOWERS page 110
Part of the project involves placing fill under the old railroad overpasses to prepare for removing the overpasses (Bridges 8E and 8W).
Delaware Memorial Bridge Approach Enters Third Leg By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
The third phase of a project to improve the approach to the Delaware Memorial Bridge on Interstate 295 northbound is moving along toward its proposed 2010 completion
Iconic Skyscrapers Pursue New Luster in Green Tech By Chris Kahn AP ENERGY WRITER
NEW YORK (AP) When owners of the Empire State Building decided to blanket its towering facade this year with thousands of insulating windows, they were only partly interested in saving energy. They also needed tenants. After 78 years, Manhattan’s signature office
building had lost its sheen as one of the city’s most desirable places to work. To get it back, the owners did what an increasing number of property owners have done — they went green, shelling out $120 million on a variety of environmental improvements, a move would have been considered a huge gamble a few years ago. Buildings that define city skylines across the see GREEN page 120
date. The $26 million contract, which was awarded to Mumford and Miller of Middletown, Del., is a collaborative effort between the Delaware Department of Transportation and the Delaware River and Bay Authority. “The reason that we collaborated with DelDOT is that our properties abut one another, and in the interest of minimizing inconvenience to the traveling public, we thought we would work together,” said Joe Volk, senior engineer and project manager. “Their stretch of highway needed improvement, our stretch of highway needed improvement, and it’s always best to the traveling public when you can combine efforts like this, versus having two different initiatives, perhaps at two different times, disrupting the public.” Volk noted that the collaborative effort has worked well, from planning through design and construction. “They have been involved in decisionmaking meetings,” he said. “We meet often, see APPROACH page 106