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Congress Punts on Road Bill By Pete Sigmund CEG EDITORIAL CONSULTANT
Ocean County Landfill Gets Assist from Cat…8
Photo Courtesy of Stephen Barna
The launching girder (horizontal crane) prepares to forward launch across a pier and begin erection of span segments along Route 123 in Tysons Corner. Key Equipment Opens New Facility…14
MWAA Launches 23-Mi. Dulles Corridor Metrorail Extension By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
Fi rm Ma kes a Case f or Breast Cancer Support…30
Table of Contents ................4 Paving Section ............61-73 Mini & Compact Equipment
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) is currently constructing a 23-mi. (37 km) extension of an existing Metrorail system (the Metro Orange Line). It will be operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority from East Falls Church to Washington Dulles International Airport west to Ashburn. Areas served by the extension will include
Section..........................77-99 Snow & Ice Section.119-123 Parts Section ..................125 Auction Section ....................
..........................Starts at 131 Business Calendar ..........138 Advertisers Index............146
Tysons Corner, which is reportedly Virginia’s largest employment center, and the Reston Herndon area, which includes the state’s second largest employment concentration. It also will supply transportation from Dulles International Airport to downtown Washington. According to Marcia McAllister, communications manager of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project, its purpose is to “provide high-quality, high-capacity transit service in the Dulles Corridor. New Metrorail service in the corridor see DULLES page 106
Legendary pitcher Satchel Paige once said: “Don’t look back. Something may be gaining on you.” For the construction industry, that something is many billions of dollars in overdue long-term highway, bridge and transit funding. Congress has passed, and President Obama has signed into law, a stopgap six-month extension of current highway and transit funding. The legislative body, however, is over two years behind in reauthorizing a critically needed full six-year highway and surface transportation bill — representing many billions of dollars in transportation projects — to replace the $286-billion SAFETEA-LU act, which expired Sept. 30, 2009. The six-month extension, through March 2012, provides $20 billion for the critical projects, meeting a Sept. 30 deadline, when the last of seven funding extensions of the former law expired. But the multi-year funding, which contractors desperately require for purchasing and planning, remains a huge unanswered need. Congress also has reauthorized, also for six months, the federal gasoline tax, which supports the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), the main federal funding source for highway and bridge construction. This tax, last authorized in 2005, was also to expire on Sept. 30. Without it, highway, bridge and surface transportation work would have been largely unfunded, with much see HIGHWAY page 118
Loss of Fly Ash Could Increase Building Costs The cost to build roads, runways and bridges would increase by an estimated $104.6 billion over the next 20 years if coal fly ash is no longer available as a transportation construction building material, according to a new study by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation Development
Foundation (ARTBA-TDF). Fly ash is a byproduct of coal combustion for electricity generation. It is widely used as a supplementary cementitious material in the production of concrete. Fly ash concrete is a mixture of choice for many state and local transportation departments and transportation engineers
because of its performance enhancing and costsaving benefits. It also has been praised for its environmental benefits as a “green” building material — putting to use an energy production byproduct that reduces demand for carbonintensive portland cement, requires less water in see ASH page 124