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Pa. Continues Major Span Improvement Project By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
Schlouch Jobs Cover Broad Spectrum, Span Counties…8
MB America Ready for WOC With Live Demo...72
A major bridge replacement and widening project headed by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is well into construction in Dauphin County, Pa. Throughout the project, three bridges will be replaced, and the roadway will be widened between Mileposts 250 and 252 in Middletown Borough and Lower Swatara and Londonderry townships in Dauphin County. The work zone is situated between the Harrisburg East (Exit 247) and Lebanon-Lancaster (Exit 266) interchanges. Construction began in the fall of 2013, and is set for completion in mid-2016. The project’s total cost is set at $47.65 million. At the project’s completion, nearly 1.5 mi. (2.4 km) of the turnpike, including the three new bridges, will be wide enough to accommodate future expansion to six lanes east and west of the work zone. According to the project’s Web site, “the project continues the commission’s long-term, 100 percent tollfinanced initiative to rebuild, upgrade and modernize ‘America’s First Toll Road,’ its bridges and facilities.”
Throughout the project, three bridges will be replaced, and the roadway will be widened between Mileposts 250 and 252 in Middletown Borough and Lower Swatara and Londonderry townships in Dauphin County.
see BRIDGES page 30
Industry Jobs Expand in 224 Metro Areas Ritchie Bros. Hosts Final Sale of the Year…114
Table of Contents ................4 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................49-53 Attachment & Parts Section ......................................55-60 Recycling Section ........67-91 Business Calendar ..........116 Auction Section ......112-128 Advertisers Index ............126
Construction employment expanded in 224 seven-year low, it has become a major challenge Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas (11,000 jobs, 10 percent), Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, Ill. (9,100 metro areas, declined in 64 and was stagnant in to find qualified workers in many fields.” Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas, added jobs, 7 percent) and Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, 51 between November 2013 and November 2014, according to a new analysis of federal the largest number of construction jobs in the Wash. (8,900 jobs, 12 percent). The largest employment data released by the Associated past year (16,200 jobs, 9 percent), followed by see AGC page 119 General Contractors of America. Association officials said contractors in many parts of the country were benefitting from growing demand, yet labor shortages threaten to undermine the sector’s recovery. “It is good news that conThe mayors of Parkersburg, Vienna, Belpre, Ohio, By Evan Bevins struction employment is now and Marietta, Ohio, hope to apply lessons from Minot, PARKERSBURG NEWS AND SENTINEL rising in two-thirds of the N.D., to what the Mid-Ohio Valley’s experience will nation’s metro areas,” said Ken be if and when an anticipated ethane cracker plant is PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) A dozen local offiSimonson, chief economist of built in Wood County. cials are heading north this winter to learn how a North the association. “But now that “We’re trying to focus right now on getting ready Dakota city at ground zero of the shale boom dealt the unemployment rate for conwith a rapidly growing population. see SHALE page 26 struction workers has fallen to a
W.Va. Studies Shale Boom, Rapid Population Growth in Minot, N.D.