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Contractors use Cloud Computing in the Field…8
Carson Succeeds With Milton CAT Network…14
Basch ma nn Servi ces, Kawasak i Part ner…28
Table of Contents ............4 Paving Section ..........54-69 Underground Utility, Trenchers, Trench Boxes & Utilities Section ....73-83 Parts Section ..................84 Auction Section....124-140 Business Calendar ......136 Advertisers Index ........138
Work Begins to Connect I-95 Along Entire East Coast
Preparing to place additional shoring.
By Paul Nussbaum, Inquirer Staff Writer SPECIAL TO CEG
Construction is to start late next month or in early October on the long-awaited direct connection between Interstate 95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, after the award of a $142.9 million contract to a Bucks County firm. PKF-Mark III Inc., of Newtown, won the contract from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission to build the first section of the $420 million Stage 1 of the new interchange that will finally provide an unbroken I-95 between Maine and Florida. For decades, I-95 has been incomplete in New Jersey near Trenton. The $142.9 million will pay for widening and reconstructing about 4 mi. (6.4 km) of the turnpike in Bristol township, where the connection with I-95 will be built. It also will pay for building three new turnpike bridges and installing the piers for the flyover ramps for the connection. When Stage 1 is completed in 2018, I-95 will be rerouted onto the Pennsylvania Turnpike east of the connection and then onto the New Jersey Turnpike. The current I-95 north of the connection will be redesignated as I-395 or I-195, Project Manager Jeff Davis said. Since I-95 was built through Bucks County in 1969, crossing the turnpike, truckers and other motorists have see INTERSTATE page 118
Multi-Million Dollar Project to Modernize Cement Plant By Mary Reed
a lot has changed since then. Chicago-based Lafarge North America Inc., currently is overseeing a multi-million When the cement manufacturing plant in dollar modernization project that will result the village of Ravena in Albany County, in one of the most advanced dry-kiln faciliN.Y., was built in 1962, it was considered the ties in the nation. Originally proposed in 2008 and granted most advanced production facility of its kind an extension of project timeline by the in the world. But that was more than 50 years ago, and United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) in late 2013, modernization of the facility will reduce demand for fuel resources such as coal and significantly cut plant emissions. Currently voluntarily operating under a first of its kind mercury emissions cap, sulments for the electronic submission of injury and ill- fur dioxide (SO2) and mercury ness information that employers are already required (Hg) emissions from the plant to keep. will be reduced by an additional During the public meeting held on the proposal, 20 percent over the next three many participants expressed concern that the proposal
CEG CORRESPONDENT
OSHA Announces Extension for Comment Period on Proposed Rule The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced it will extend the comment period on the proposed rule to improve tracking of workplace injuries and illnesses to Oct. 14, 2014. The proposal, published on Nov. 8, 2013, would amend the agency’s recordkeeping regulation to add require-
see OSHA page 128
see CEMENT page 114