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® April 23 2025 Vol. LXVII • No. 9
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New $2.1B Buffalo Bills Stadium Tops Out
DSM Helps M&T Bank Stadium Weather the Storm...8
How One Firm Found Its Groove in the Hudson Valley...12
The project is now approximately 50 percent complete and is slated to be finished before the 2026 NFL season.
Circulation Improvement Project Nears Finish...14
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and Erie County celebrated the topping out of the new $2.1 billion Highmark Stadium at the construction site in Orchard Park, a suburb of Buffalo, on April 4, 2025.
Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Aggregate & Recycling Section . . . . . . . . . . . . .53-74 Attachments Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75-80
A major building milestone, the topping out celebrates the lifting and placing of the last roof module for the arena’s structure. The ultramodern stadium design includes technology, art and an array of amenities designed to enhance the fan
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experience — making it a world-class entertainment venue that will likely boost the Western New York economy for decades to come. The project is now approximately 50 percent see STADIUM page 36
AED Sets Visionary Goals for Equipment Technology Careers By Lucy Perry CEG CORRESPONDENT
Truck & Trailer Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81-85 Auction Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88-100 Business Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 Advertisers Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Working with dealers and manufacturers, the distributors of the heavy equipment industry are on a mission to make careers in equipment technology more attractive to a younger pool of workers. Through its Vision 2025 initiative, the Adobe Stock photo Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) The Associated Equipment Distributors Foundation Foundation believes it can draw a large num- believes it can draw a good many of the 73,000 equipber of workers willing and able to take on more ment technicians needed to fill industry demand see CAREERS page 28
through its Vision 2025 initiative.