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Link Belt Chips in on Sandy Clean Up…8
Binder Machinery Takes on Takeuchi Line…14
Edward Ehrbar Joins JC B Dealer Network…18
Table of Contents ....................4 Truck & Trailer Section ..63-71 Recycling Section ..........75-103
Insolvency Crisis Looms as Map-21 Law Expires in 2014
Stephen Barna/Dulles Metrorail Corridor Project photo
As the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) lurches toward its fifth insolvency crisis in seven years when the MAP-21 surface transportation law expires in September 2014, federal surface transportation investment to the states could be dealt a crippling blow unless Congress acts, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) said at a Sept. 25 hearing on Capitol Hill. Testifying before the Environment & Public Works Committee, ARTBA President Pete Ruane told senators that federal highway funds account for nearly 52 percent of state roadway and bridge capital outlays annually. Eleven states rely on the program for 70 percent or more of their road and bridge capital improvements, and 20 states rely on federal reimbursements for 50 to 69 percent of their capital outlays. For the remaining 19 states, federal investment accounts for 35 to 49 percent of their highway construction activities. “Although the amount of reliance on federal funds for needed road and bridge improvements may vary state by state, it is clear that for the vast majority of states the effectiveness of their highway construction programs are heavily dependent on a strong and reliable federal partner,” Ruane said. ConExpo According to a July Congressional Retro Budget Office (CBO) report, the HTF would be unable to support any new See page 40 for an highway and transit investments in fiscal ongoing series of year 2015. highlights from past “We should be clear that the continuConExpos as they ing saga with the Highway Trust Fund’s were reported in the
The pedestrian bridge and entrance pavilion at the Tysons Corner Metrorail Station are completed. In the background is construction of offices, a hotel and residential units by the owners of Tysons Corner Center, Macerich.
All Aboard: Phase Two Begins on Dulles Metrorail
see HTF page 122
pages of CEG.
By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
Preliminary construction of Phase 2 of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project has begun in the Washington, D.C., area. The $1.77 billion construction contract for the major portion of the phase has been awarded to Capital Rail Constructors, a joint venture of Clark Construction Group and Kiewit Infrastructure South Co. Completion is expected in 2018. see DULLES page 36
ASA’s Bigane Speaks Out Against Payment Abuses
Snow & Ice Section ....111-114 Attachment & Parts Section .... ......................................115-121 Business Calendar ..............138 Auction Section ..........126-141 Advertisers Index ................142
ASA Past President Anne Bigane Wilson made a radical statement about subcontractor payment abuses at the ENR Risk & Compliance Summit on Sept. 20 in New York City — the purpose of which was to discuss how contractors manage risk, including subcontractor default. “Construction subcontractors and suppliers should get paid promptly and in-full for work properly performed,” she said. “While it may
seem silly for that to be a radical statement, it is a sad fact that in our construction industry many subcontractors and suppliers do not routinely get paid promptly — and sometimes not at all — for their work.” Richard Korman, Engineering NewsRecord’s managing senior editor of ENR.com, noted in his “Views Differ from Places on the Payment Flow-Chart” that Wilson’s “conversation seemed to have as much to do with morali-
ty and the public good as with management. The prompt payments that subs need to stay alive, she implied, were just as important as the risks to the prime contractor of subs going belly up,” Korman wrote. Wilson, who is president of both Bigane Paving Co., a fourth-generation family firm specializing in asphalt paving, and Ogden Avenue Materials Inc., an asphalt manufacturing plant, see ASA page 122