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The Six Mile Creek Bridge project in Erie County, Pa., is part of Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell’s Accelerated Bridge Program, which is adding $200 million a year to the mix of federal and state funds the state invests in bridges. In 2009, the overall investment in bridges in Pennsylvania totaled more than $1.6 billion. In spite of nearly tripling spending on bridge repairs over the past seven years, Pennsylvania has the highest number of structurally deficient bridges in the nation, as reported by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT). But the Gov.’s

“Tad Agoglia is almost looked upon as an angel here in Parkersburg, Iowa,” said city administrator Chris Luhring. Agoglia doesn’t have wings, as it turns out, but his story does have a Christmas feel. Two years ago, Agoglia converted his profitable disaster response and cleanup company to a nonprofit foundation. He left his home and went on Tad Agoglia surveying the the road where he spends damage in part of all year donating his Parkersburg, Iowa. expertise to stricken communities and seeking support and training for his team. Several leading equipment manufacturers and construction industry companies have caught the giving spirit and are backing him with money and machinery. “When you meet him, you’ll quickly see that his passion

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For years naysayers said it would never come to pass. Yet within a year there will be numerous passes — in soccer games, that is — when the Red Bull Arena, now rising in Harrison, N.J., is completed. Situated across the Passaic River from Newark, N.J., Harrison is a working class town whose population is keenly interested in following and playing soccer. The venue will become the new home of a Major League Soccer team, the New York Red Bulls, owned by the Austrian energy drink manufacturer Red Bull GmbH. The team is currently based in the Giants’ stadium in New Jersey. Red Bulls’ fans will find games easy to attend, since the stadium is located near the Jackson Street Bridge to Newark and will be accessible from both Interstate 280

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The venue will become the new home of a Major League Soccer team, the New York Red Bulls, owned by the Austrian energy drink manufacturer Red Bull GmbH. The team is currently based in the Giants’ stadium in New Jersey.

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When the U.S. Senate failed in September to enact six-year transportation legislation or to extend the existing funding authority in a responsible way it created a billion-dollar-a-month hole for the construction industry “The baseline for the federal highway account is reduced by a billion dollars each month we have a continuing resolution,” said Tony Dorsey, media spokesman of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). “It will cost our members one billion dollars every month we have a resolution.” While the huge loss is mostly on paper — so far — it nonetheless is a drag on the construction econdesign build contract was awarded to Skanska omy Here’ the deal: By Brenda Rug iero USA Civil Southeast Inc. in August. CEG CORRESPONDENT Though the Senate agreed with the House at the According to DelDOT, Skanska had a combi- very last moment to a one-month extension of existork began this fall on a project involving nation of the lowest price, highest technical ing transportation funding authority, senators failed the lar est single contract in the history of the score, and fastest proposed completion time. to include a provision to roll back funding rescisDelaware Department of Transportation Their project manager is Jay Erwin Jr sions stipulated in the last six-year bill. The $8.7 bil(DelDOT). The department has been in oper- Tina Shockley, DelDOT’ community rela- lion in rescission money was a bookkeeping method tions officer noted that funds for the project of understating the true cost of SAFETEA-LU, ation for more than 90 years. Bids were first opened for the project, are coming from the Federal Highway which was passed in 2005 (two years into the six which involves the new Indian River Inlet Administration (80 percent) and the State of Bridge, in February 2008. The $150 million see EXTENSION pa e 30 see BRIDGE pa e 28

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staged a rally on the National Mall against a backdrop of idle construction equipment and a sea of orange flags to emphasize the 550,000 jobs lost in this industry and encourage the federal government not to delay enactment of the multi-year highway legislation. The caravan circled Capitol Hill and

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) New York has shortchanged highway and bridge projects by billions of dollars over nearly two decades, siphoning off funds set aside to pay for repairs and upgrades to cover other state expenses, New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Oct. 29. He said almost $4 billion will have to be transferred by the state to the Highway and Bridge Trust Fund by 2014 to meet the obligations of the fund, created in 1991 to pay for construction and rehabilitation of state-owned roads and bridges. Only $11.6 billion, or just under 35 percent of the fund’s total, has gone directly toward infrastructure over the past 18 years, DiNapoli said at a Long Island news conference. The rest has been diverted, with legislative authorization, to debt payments and operations of the state

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A sea of 5,500 orange flags, each one representing 100 jobs already lost in the construction equipment industry.

A large caravan of bulldozers and other construction equipment displaying huge banners paraded through the streets of Washington Oct. 28 to send a message to lawmakers that they must act now to stop the bleeding in the construction equipment industry. Start Us Up USA! campaign organizers joined by House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., and other allies, also

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In Bethesda, Md., a major expansion and renovation to the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) is currently well under way and moving toward a 2011 completion date. The upgraded facility will be known as the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and will be a hospital and flagship medical institution for the Army, Air Force and Navy. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded the $641.4 million design-build contract to Clark/Balfour A Hitachi 500 excavator works at what will be an Beatty, A Joint Venture. The project will upgraded facility known as the Walter Reed be designed and constructed under the National Military Medical Center, and will be a Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) hospital and flagship medical institution for the program to meet LEED Silver certifica- Army, Air Force and Navy. tion. The design-build project has a current con- (15,329 sq m) in-patient addition to the existing struction cost of $617 million. The contract calls hospital. Clark/Balfour Beatty also is constructfor building a new 560,000-sq.-ft. (52,026 sq m) ing an eight-story, 944-space patient parking ambulatory care clinic and a 165,000-sq.-ft. see HOSPITAL page 98

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The Pittsburgh Construction Expo is set for Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 9 and 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the new Monroeville Convention Center.

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CEG Productions, the trade show division of Construction Equipment Guide, has announced the dates for its 2010 Pennsylvania Expos. The Pittsburgh Construction Expo is set for Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 9 and 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the new Monroeville Convention Center, and the 11th Annual Philadelphia Construction Expo will be held on Tuesday, March 9 from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. and Wednesday, March 10 from 9:30 a.m.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) New York state Sen. Elizabeth Little said the sudden closure of an unstable, half-mi. bridge spanning Lake Champlain in Essex County is isolating the communities that rely on it and harming nearby businesses. Little said the closing does not bode well for other communities that could suffer the same problem of failing roads and infrastructure. “The detour for the bridge is over 80 miles each way,’’ Little said. “There are a huge number of people who live in New York and work in Vermont, and vice versa, but also many, many people in Crown Point, Fort [William] Henry and Ticonderoga get their health care in Middlebury, Vermont, at Porter hospital.’’ She said the hospital has the only maternity ward within 55 miles for some places in the area. Engineers declared the 80-year-old bridge too unstable to be renovated, recommended demolishing it for safety reasons and building a new bridge. Michael Sweeney has taken to rowing across the water. The 58-year-old is retired, but he delivers for a local newspaper and also likes to try to support the businesses that have been struggling without the bridge traffic. “I don’t feel like waiting for the ferry so I decided for now I’m just going to row across. It’s only about half a mile,’’ Sweeney said. Barbara Brassard, the executive director of the Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce, said businesses that normally benefit from through traffic on the Crown Point Bridge have suffered losses between 30 and 90 percent since the bridge closed in mid-October. “This is the short term impact,’’ Brassard said. “The long term impact would surface next summer when the tourists normally arrive.’’ The Warren County Republican said New

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For a short time this fall, the MD 90 (Ocean City Expressway) Bridge in Worcester County, Md., was closed for repair. It was reopened to traffic just in time for Thanksgiving, on Nov. 24. The bridge was originally scheduled to open in mid-December after it was closed on Oct. 15 by the Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration (SHA) in order to replace an 85-ft. (26 m) section. “The MD 90 Bridge, which crosses Assawoman Bay, carries 18,000 vehicles each day to and from Ocean City, which is a popular resort on Maryland’s Eastern Shore,” said Kellie Boulware of SHA. “During a recent inspection, our engineers discovered that a section of the center span of the bridge had significant deterioration. Immediately, SHA enforced a weight restriction on the bridge of no more than 6,000 pounds, which limited use to passenger vehicles only, and all traffic was diverted to the southern bridge — U.S. 50 Crews continued to work around the clock to get the work done. Due to the water(Harry Kelly Memorial Bridge) to reach Ocean City. way impacts, SHA worked closely with the U.S. Coast Guard to relocate the channel

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Pennsylvania mostly work through trade date from the 1880s. The success of apprenticeship programs in unions. It is an association that goes back a long A dynamic apprenticeship program will not ways: the Master Builders’ Association — a Pittsburgh is evident in the new $13 million by itself save the U.S. construction industry founding member of Associated General see APPRENTICE page 102 from a looming shortage of skilled labor, but it is “one of the pieces of the puzzle” to stabilizing the labor situation, say industry leaders. Unions, contractors and associations operate apprenticeship programs mostly to teach trade skills. However, they also hope the programs will swell the ranks of craftspeople and retain man after completing his courses at By Jennifer Hetrick their workplace allegiance for a lifeLehigh. He worked for Cat for 12 CEG EDITORIAL ASSISTANT time. The ultimate goal of every years, moving from sales to manapprenticeship program sponsor in the H. Jack Hunkele, 94, former pres- agement. During that time, he met country is to boost both the quality and ident of Foley Inc., Piscataway, N.J., his wife Evelyn, who predeceased Jack Hunkele, president quantity of trained construction labordied at his home in the Sarasota Bay him. Upon his return to New of Foley Machinery, ers. How they pursue this common Jersey with his two children, he addressing the crowd Club, Sarasota, Fla., Nov. 11. objective differs in a variety of ways. Mr. Hunkele was originally from began working for Foley Inc. It is during the grand opening To produce skilled workers in such of Foley’s Piscataway, Newark, N.J., but moved to Peoria, fields as carpentry, cement masonry see HUNKELE page 108 N.J., facility in 1967. Ill., to work as a Caterpillar salesand construction laborer, contractors CEG CORRESPONDENT

Former Foley President, H. Jack Hunkele, Dies

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Komatsu Unveils New Hybrid PC200LC-8 Excavator in NYC Fourth and fifth graders from P.S. 115 in Brooklyn, N.Y., learned about the newest environmentally friendly construction equipment — a Komatsu Hybrid PC200LC-8 — when they visited a construction site adjacent to the Canarsie Pier near exit 13 of the Belt Parkway on Dec. 1. The students were issued hard hats and invited to sit see HYBRID page 14

(L-R): Jerry Ahern, chairman of the board, Edward Ehrbar Inc.; Joseph Posillico III, senior vice president of field operations, Posillico Civil Inc.; and David Grzelak, chairman and CEO, Komatsu America Corp., stand in front of the PC200LC-8 hybrid excavator.