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Muschlitz Preps Camelback’s Winter Waterpark Muschlitz Excavating will have moved approximately 350,000 cu. yds. (267,594 cu m) of earth by the time its portion of the Camelback indoor waterpark project is completed.
Liebherr President Offers In-Depth Look at Company…8
Alpine Construction Makes Way for Mansions…14
ConExpo Retro See page 34 for an ongoing series of highlights from past ConExpos as they were reported in the pages of CEG.
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Enjoy the twists and turns of the ski slopes but not a fan of the cold weather? Camelback Mountain, in the Pocono Mountains’ town of Tannersville, Pa., may have an
Recycling Section ........73-99 Snow & Ice Section 111-114 Attachment & Parts Section ..................................115-120 Auction Section ......124-137 Business Calendar ..........126 Advertisers Index ............138
million. Muschlitz Excavating has a $9 million chunk of the project, handling the site preparation, excavation and remediation. “There are about 350,000 cu. yds. of earth to move
here,” said Jack Muschlitz of Muschlitz Excavating, based in Bath, Pa. “There are a lot of unsuitable soils here that we have to deal with. It is wet material that was see CAMELBACK page 102
Manhattan Portion of Construction Creates $4.7B Water Tunnel Opens By Jonathan Lemire ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ideal solution when a massive project -– featuring an indoor waterpark, hotel and lodge — wraps up in 2015. The project will cost Camelback approximately $160
NEW YORK (AP) One of the largest infrastructure projects in New York City took an important step toward completion Oct. 16, as a section of a new water tunnel set to deliver hundreds of million gallons of water a day was primed to open. The new tunnel, decades in the making, will provide critical backup to the city’s two existing water tubes, which were built in 1917 and 1936 and have not received any inspections or repairs. “There is no other infrastructure project that means more to protect-
ing New York City’s future than the third water tunnel,’’ said Mayor Michael Bloomberg as he addressed the press 200 ft. below Central Park. “If we were to lose one of the water tunnels without backup, parts of the city would be uninhabitable.’’ “You just can’t live when you don’t have water,’’ he said. The only way for engineers to check on the aging existing tunnels would be to turn them off, leaving huge swaths of the city without water. So, the tunnels have been left alone even though they have leaks that lose millions of gallons of water see TUNNEL page 128
20,000 Jobs in Sept. Construction employment rose by 20,000 in September and the industry’s unemployment rate fell to a six-year low of 8.5 percent, while construction spending increased for the fifth consecutive month in August, according to an analysis of new government data by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials cautioned that the data does not address any potential impacts from the recent federal government shutdown. “Both of these reports show
the industry was doing relatively well before the federal government shutdown forced many firms to hit the pause button,” said Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist. “But the shutdown likely disrupted a wide variety of projects and may have caused private investors and developers to delay decisions about new projects or plant expansions. As a result, future spending and hiring gains may be weaker.” Construction employment see JOBS page 136