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‘Burgh’s Civic Arena Project Nears Completion By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
New Millennium Rentals Opens New Facility…14
The demolition of a unique building in Pittsburgh is nearing its completion, marking the end of more than 50 years of events that totaled more than 7,000. Piece by piece over the last nine months, the Mellon Arena came down. The demolition project, which called for full demolition, abatement and site grading of the arena, began on Aug. 8, 2011. The full contract of $2,909,000 was awarded to Noralco Corporation, where George Boehm serves as the vice president. Manpower at the site averages between 40 and 50 workers. see ARENA page 42
H&R Parts Buys Crawler Equipment Sales…22
Binder Machinery Showcases New ’12 Product Offerings Champlain Bridge Designer
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Doosan and Case excavators were among the heavy machinery on the site.
Helps Celebrate New Span By Chris Carola ASSOCIATED PRESS Monro e Tract or Hosts Open Hou se in N. Y. …34
Table of Contents ................4 Air Compressors, Generators & Light Towers Section73-77 Paving Section ............79-94 Parts Section ..................114 Auction Section ......120-140 Business Calendar ..........126 Advertisers Index............138
(L-R): Leo Liang, director of business development, SANY America; Kyle Nape, vice president of global sales and marketing, SANY America; Mike Burns, construction manager, Earl Asphalt; Rob Earl, president, Earl Asphalt; Robert Earl, son; Bob Binder, chairman, Binder Machinery Co.; Jack Tang, president, SANY America Inc.; Carlin Binder, general manager of IronBin Machinery, Binder Machinery Co.; and Edward Yang, vice president, SANY America.
On May 18, Binder Machinery of South Plainfield, N.J., held an event to showcase new product offerings to its customers. The event attracted many of the biggest and most well known contractors in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. see BINDER page 28
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Some of the bridges Ted Zoli has designed get used by more vehicles in a few minutes than travel across the Lake Champlain Bridge during an entire day. Still, there’s something about the sixmonth-old span connecting New York and Vermont that’s special to the awardwinning bridge designer, and it has a lot to do with its location: the Adirondacks, where the Manhattan-based engineer was born. “There’s something remarkable about the Adirondacks. It gets in your blood,” Zoli told The Associated Press by telephone from his New York City office. Zoli was the keynote speaker May 19 for the opening ceremony of a two-day celebration of the bridge’s opening last November. Events were held at the
Crown Point State Historic Site on the New York end of the bridge, and at Chimney Point State Historic Site in Addison on the Vermont side. A fireworks display closed out the celebration. Organizers decided to hold off until May to host a community party for the new bridge, which replaced the original 80-year-old span that was demolished in December 2009. New York state bridge inspectors closed the span two months earlier after finding its concrete piers were deteriorating. Soon after the bridge’s closing, Zoli’s Kansas City-based firm, HNTB, was hired by New York state to design the new bridge — and given 10 weeks to do it. New bridge designs typically take 18 to 24 months, Zoli said. His team met the compressed deadline, and construction of the new span began in the spring of 2010. see BRIDGE page 104