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Crews Relieve Congestion Along Pa.’s Route 19 By Jennifer Rupp CEG CORRESPONDENT
Helicopter Takes Out Crane in London…8
AED Hol ds Annual Summit, CONDEX Show…14
The Route 19 Wexford Flats project in Allegheny County, Pa., had been in the works for nearly 20 years. As a prolific business district, this four-lane stretch had become congested with 28,000 vehicles per day, causing frequent rear-end accidents. In response, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) designed an $18.1 million overhaul to for 2.33 miles of Route 19. The improvement project, which runs through Pine and McCandless townships, included widening, bituminous resurfacing, concrete pavement, drainage, curb and sidewalk, signing and pavement marking, signals, and a retaining wall. The construction zone began about 300 ft. north of Longvue Road (near the top of Pine Creek Hill), and ran to just north of North Chapel/Manor Road. The new design widens Route 19 from 42 ft. to 63 ft., adding a center turn lane, curbed gutters and sidewalks. New, improved traffic signals
Golden Triangle used their LoDril attachment to drill for the caissons in the upcoming retaining wall.
see PENNDOT page 104
Outlook for Construction Improves for 2013 Golf er Pi cks Excav ator Over Ca r for P rize …2 4
Table of Contents ................4 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................54-59 Recycling Section ........63-85 Attachment Section ..99-102 Parts Section ..................103 Auction Section ......108-120 Business Calendar ..........114 Advertisers Index............118
Significantly more construction firms are industry should be larger, healthier, more tech- He said that 31 percent of firms plan to add staff planning to add new staff than plan to cut staff nologically savvy and more profitable by the this year, while only 9 percent plan to make laywhile demand for many types of private sector end of 2013 than it is today.” offs this year. The scope of those staff additions construction projects should increase this year Sandherr noted that significantly more firms are likely to be modest, however, with 79 peraccording to survey results released Jan. 15 by are planning to add staff this year compared to cent of firms reporting they plan to hire 15 or the Associated General Contractors of America the number of firms expecting to make layoffs. see OUTLOOK page 94 and Computer Guidance Corporation. The survey, conducted as part of Tentative Signs of a Recovery: The 2013 Construction Industry Hiring and Business Outlook, provides a generally optimistic outlook for the year even as firms worry about rising costs and declining public sector demand for The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association ment this year will consider numerous end-user beneconstruction. (ELFA), which represents the $725 billion equipment fits while weighing continued uncertainty related to “While the outlook for the confinance sector, revealed its Top 10 Equipment economic conditions and fiscal policies. struction industry appears to be Acquisition Trends for 2013 on Jan. 14. Given that ELFA President and CEO William G. Sutton said, heading in the right direction for every year U.S. businesses, nonprofits and govern- “Equipment acquisition plays a critical role in driving 2013, many firms are still grappling ment agencies spend in excess of $1.2 trillion in cap- the supply chains across all U.S. manufacturing and with significant economic headital goods or fixed business investment (including service sectors. We have distilled recent research data, winds,” said Stephen E. Sandherr, software), financing more than half of those assets, including the Equipment Leasing & Finance the association’s chief executive these trends impact a significant portion of the U.S. officer. “With luck and a lot of see ELFA page 32 economy. Businesses considering acquiring equipwork, the hard-hit construction
Equipment Leasing, Finance Group Reveals 2013’s Trends in Acquisition