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Inside
D.H. Griffin Looks Back at 9/11 Efforts
D’Annunzio & Sons Celebrates 30 Years…8
Work is moving along to replace a 60-year-old bridge between Keyser, W.Va., and McCoole, Md. The Memorial Bridge is a part of U.S. Route 220, and crosses the Potomac River. Mine Reclamation Job Heads Toward Finish…24
Memorial Bridge Project Progresses in W.Va., Md. By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
UTCA Hol ds Annual Conve ntio n in A.C . …46
Table of Contents ....................4 Truck & Trailer Section ..65-73 Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section ..........77-102 Attachment Section ....109-116 Snow & Ice Section ....117-121 Parts Section ................122-123 Business Calendar ..............124 Auction Section ..Starts at 131 Advertisers Index ................146
Work is moving along to replace a 60year-old bridge between Keyser, W.Va., and McCoole, Md. The Memorial Bridge is a part of U.S Route 220, and crosses the Potomac River. The full dollar amount of the project is $26.5 million, with funding coming from
the Federal Highway Administration, the state of Maryland, and the state of West Virginia. The contract was awarded by the West Virginia Department of Transportation to Ahern & Associates of Saint Albans, W.Va., a division of Kokosing Construction Co., Fredericktown, Ohio. The project manager is Steve Diehl.
Piles of debris stood 50 ft. (15 m) high when Griffin arrived at the scene.
By Giles Lambertson CEG CORRESPONDENT
Not every day does a visitor to an unprecedented public disaster show up to volunteer with recovery efforts and almost immediately become de facto manager of the project. But the eleventh day of September 2001 was not just any day in New York City. That day the city became the target of coordinated terrorist attacks that quickly spread to Washington, D.C. After an airliner was intentionally crashed into each of the World Trade City towers in New York City — with a third flown into the Pentagon in Washington and a fourth into the noted that the local employment data ground before it could hit another Washington tarremains relatively split as private sector get — the world in general, and America in particdemand increased and public sector activity ular, was stunned. declined more rapidly during the past year. David H. Griffin Jr. wasn’t stunned for long. “The construction market is caught Two days after the towers fell, with concrete dust between increases in private sector demand see BRIDGE page 124
Demands From Private Sector Boost Industry Employment Construction employment increased in 146 out of 337 metropolitan areas between August 2010 and August 2011, declined in 145 and stayed level in 46, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released Sept. 26 by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials
see ANALYSIS page 140
see GRIFFIN page 38