“Our team had to work 24 hours a day for two weeks straight during September of last year,” said Ramos. “At one section the run way intersects with another run way. So, our team had to get that
“If we mill faster, we can pave faster,” said Ramos. “We were able to use a lot of activities to speed up theRamosprocess.”sees lots of improve ments in the new surface.
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By Chuck MacDonald CEGCincinnati/NorthernCORRESPONDENT Kentucky International Airport (CVG) has seen a buzz of construction proj ects recently. The airport continues to make waves in the area with an annual economic impact of $6.8 billion. CVG welcomed more than nine million passengers in 2019. It is the seventh busiest cargo airport in North AirportAmerica.planners and workers completed the rehabilitation of runway 9/27 last year with contin uing work on adjacent taxiways in 2022. This runway is critical for cargo operations and is used exten sively for nighttime operations. Due to impressive planning and execution, plus on-time availabili ty of funding through the FAA, the fix was accomplished in one year rather than two. Runway 9/27 is one of four runways at CVG. Rehabilitation work included new asphalt, concrete and lighting.
“By completing the project in a single season, rather than two, it minimizes impact to nearby com munities, cargo operations and the overall effectiveness at the air port,” said Angel Ramos, vice president of planning and develop ment.The runway needed rehabilita tion after some 30 years of service and bearing the brunt of many takeoffs and landing.
A high-speed job like this requires excellent cooperation between the airport and contrac
“The runway was concrete with an asphalt overlay,” said Ramos. “Our team milled 6 inches of asphalt and removed 18-inch pan els of concrete. We replaced the joints, P-501 concrete and P-401 asphalt, which is the standard required by the FAA.”
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport photo CVG airport encompasses a sprawling 7,700-acre campus and services passengers, freight, e-commerce, airport maintenance and other aviation-related activities.
The runway is heavily used for both passenger and cargo traffic.
section completed as quickly as possible.”Workers were able to crush the old runway materials on site and use them in the rebuild. That meant fewer truck trips to bring in new material. That also meant less car bon emissions and saved time. Another time saver was the use of an oversize milling machine, capable of milling a 20-ft.-wide swath of pavement.
Rebuilt Runway Highlights Expansion at Cincinnati Airport
Cargo traffic grew during COVID. The airport handles cargo related to e-commerce activity, so planners found it necessary to make the run way active as soon as possible. That meant long days for workers.
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“The runway is smoother, with no cracks or bumps. And it’s back to daily service.”
tors.“One of the highlights for me was the chance to work with peo ple who could problem solve and make things happen in a hurry,” he said. “In construction there are always unexpected issues that come up. Our team reacted well and dealt with challenges in the rightTheway.”project came in at just under
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OLA Holds Its Snow & Ice Clinic in Broadview Heights
(L-R): Rob Adamson of Boss Snowplow and Seth Ferkenstad of VSI/Boss Equipment joined Shawn Wendell of O’Reilly Equipment and Jordan Smith of VSI/Boss Equipment to introduce the dealership’s lineup of snowplows and de-icing equipment.
Kyle Franke (L) and Dustin Snyder of Western Lehigh Services were in from Allentown, Pa., with the Metal Pless Maxxpro 1048-20 snowplow, now with a full live edge — including on the hydraulic wings.
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Mike Kress and David Heath were busy at the Southeastern Equipment booth dis cussing the dealership’s lineup of Case machines equipped for winter maintenance.
sustainable winter management. Attendees also had an opportunity to meet with repre sentatives from Ohio’s leading equipment, product and service providers along with manufacturer representatives to discuss the latest innovations in winter maintenance in the outdoor trade show area. Breakfast and lunch were provided by OLA at the event.
Burns JCB’s Mike Tople (L) and Steve Huml presented the dealership’s lineup of JCB equipment geared for winter maintenance.
The Ohio Landscapers Association (OLA) held its annual Snow and Ice Management Clinic and Trade Show at St. Michael's Woodside in Broadview Heights, Ohio, on Aug. 25. The event is designed to provide information, training and resources geared toward improving its memberships’ snow and ice maintenance practices and improving their bottom line.
Established in 1965, the OLA is a nonprofit trade association for landscape con tractors and suppliers, encouraging profes sional standards and promoting the green industry. The association conducts informa tive meetings, educational programs and networking opportunities and serves as an advocate for its members’ business interests at both the state and federal levels.
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Amy Svoboda of Chardon Welding Inc. was on hand to discuss the dealership’s line of snow maintenance equipment.
Educational clinics were conducted by industry experts and covered topics ranging from understanding clients’ expectations to employee training techniques to salt tracking technologies and anti-icing/liquid calibra tion.The keynote speaker was Phill Sexton of WIT Advisers, a consulting company found ed by Sexton, which provides advice for landscape companies on best practices and
Cenweld Corporation’s Lynn Biegacki (L) and Kent Kroft spoke with attendees about the dealership’s truck bodies and equipment, including this Fisher snow plow.
Mark Mennell of Bobcat of Cleveland West / Leppo Rents informed show-goers about Bobcat’s co-brand partnership with Kage Innovation.
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Just six months after Intel revealed the Ohio operation, for example, Missouri-based VanTrust Real Estate announced it was building a 500-acre business park next door to house Intel suppliers. The site’s 5 million sq. ft. is equivalent to nearly nine football fields. Other projects for additional sup
Construction is expected to accelerate following Congress’ approval last month of a package boosting the semiconductor industry and scientific research in a bid to create more high-tech jobs in the United States and help it better compete with international rivals. It includes more than $52 billion in grants and other incentives for the semi conductor industry as well as a 25 percent tax credit for those companies that invest in chip plants in the United States.
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“I don’t know of a single commercial construction com pany that’s not hiring,” said Mary Tebeau, executive director of the Builders Exchange of Central Ohio, a construction industry trade association. Offsetting the imbalance are train ing programs, a push to encourage more high school students to enter the trades, and pure economics. Including overtime, pay for skilled tradespeople could hit $125,000 annually, said Dorsey Hager, executive secretary-treasurer of the Columbus Building Trades Council. Or as Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, the state’s economic development point person, puts it, the Intel project is so big and lucrative it will create oppor tunities for people who didn’t see construction jobs in their future.“When you’re willing to pay people more to do some thing, you will find the talent,” he said. In addition to new
JOHNSTOWN, Ohio (AP) Ohio’s largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment chal lenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment when there’s also a national shortage of people working in the trades.
The court ruled 6-1 that the board had multiple studies before it that found a low impact on birds and bats. The court also said the board properly determined the project would have “a minimal impact” on the public’s ability to enjoy Lake Erie.
High Court Upholds Lake Erie Wind Farm
and out-of-state workers, some will likely be pulled from the residential construction industry, thinning out an already short supply of homebuilders, said Ed Brady, CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Home Builders Institute.
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Intel will rely on lessons learned in building previous semiconductor sites nationally and global ly to ensure enough construction workers, the company said in a “Onestatement.ofIntel’s top reasons for choosing Ohio is access to the region’s robust workforce,” the company said. “It will not be without its challenges, but we are confident there is enough demand that these jobs will be filled.”
Residents of the Cleveland-area village of Bratenahl sued to stop the project, arguing the siting board didn’t have enough evidence to determine the project’s environmental impact and that the project doesn’t serve the public interest as defined in Ohio law.
Last Section of DiSalle Comes Down
“This project reverberated nationwide,” said Michael Engbert, an Ohio-based official with the Laborers’ International Union of North America. “We don’t field calls every day from members hundreds or thousands of miles away asking about transferring into Columbus, Ohio,” he said. “It’s because they know Intel is coming.”
And that’s not counting at least three new Google and Amazon data centers; plans for a new $200 million munici pal courthouse south of downtown Columbus; and solar array projects that could require nearly 6,000 construction jobs by themselves. Federal data shows about 45,000 home and commercial construction workers in central Ohio. That number increased by 1,800 from May 2021 to May 2022, meaning a future deficit given current and future demands.
For the central Ohio project, all 7,000 workers aren’t required right away. They’re also only a portion of what will be needed as the Intel project transforms hundreds of largely rural acres about 30 minutes east of Columbus.
“Theyto.all know what I’m talking about,” he said.
Ohio’s Intel Project Needs 7,000 Construction Workers
At issue is the 2020 approval by the Ohio Power Siting Board of the project by Icebreaker Windpower, which proposed the six-turbine development about 10 mi. north of Cleveland.
pliers are California-basedexpected.
“We know we’ve got some work to do as a region,” Noll said.Shortage or not, work is under way at and near the Intel site, where parades of trucks rumbled down country roads on a recent morning as the beeping of multiple construction vehicles sounded in the distance.
The last remaining section of the old DiSalle bridge over the Maumee River, Toledo, was demolished Aug. 27. The reconstruction of the bridge is part of the Ohio Department of Transportation's (ODOT) I75 project, which is reconstructing and widening I-75 between Buck Road and South Avenue through Wood and Lucas counties. The proj ect will continue through 2023.
To win the project, Ohio offered Intel roughly $2 billion in incentives, including a 30-year tax break. Intel has out lined $150 million in educational funding aimed at growing the semiconductor industry regionally and nationally.
That creates a housing shortage risk that could slow the very type of economic development that Intel is sparking, said Ed Dietz of the National Association of Home Builders.
“How do you attract those business investments if you can’t also provide additional housing available for the growth in the labor force?” he said.
It was just another day for pipe layer Taylor Purdy, who made his regular 30-minute drive from Bangs, Ohio, to his construction job helping widen a road running alongside the IntelPurdyplant.spends his days in trenches helping position storm and sanitary sewers and waterlines. Overtime is plentiful as deadlines approach. The Intel construction work is in its ear liest phases as earthmovers reshape the 1,000 acres of former farm and residential land being transformed into an industrial site.Purdy said he likes the job security of being involved on such a big project. He’s also noticed that, unlike other jobs he has worked, he does not need to explain to people what he is up
Labor leaders and state officials acknowledge there’s not currently a pool of 7,000 extra workers in central Ohio, where other current projects include a 28-story Hilton near downtown Columbus; a $2 billion addition to The Ohio State University’s medical center; and a $365 million Amgen biomanufacturing plant not far from the Intel plant.
Ohio (AP) A company can proceed with plans to build what will be the first freshwater offshore wind-powered elec tric-generation facility in North America, in Lake Erie off the coast of Cleveland, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Aug. 10.
Central Ohio is expected to reach 3 million residents by 2050, a rate that would require 11,000 to 14,000 housing units a year. That was before Intel was announced, said Jennifer Noll, the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission’s associate director of community develop ment. Meanwhile, the closest the region came to hitting that goal was in 2020 with 11,000 units.
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The remaining section of the old DiSalle bridge over the Maumee River in Toledo was demolished Aug. 27 via explosives requiring traffic on Interstate 75 on either side of the bridge to be temporarily stopped.The demolition occurred at approximately 10 p.m. Just before detonation, the area around and under the bridge was checked and traffic on Interstate 75 was slowed then stopped at Detroit Avenue southbound, and at Buck Road northbound.Crewscleared any debris from the highway and area law enforce ment as well as the United States Coast Guard were involved in the operation.TheDiSalle bridge reconstruc tion over the Maumee River is part of ODOT's I-75 project which is reconstructing and widening I-75 between Buck Road and South Avenue through Wood and Lucas counties. The project will continue through 2023.
At hand is the $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing operation near the state’s capital, announced by Intel earlier this year. When the two factories, known as fabs, open in 2025, the facility will employ 3,000 people with an average salary of around $135,000. Before that happens, the 1,000acre site must be leveled, and the semiconductor factories built.
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commerce activities start ramping up for cargo operations,” said Kleem. “During that window of time our contractor had to mill and resurface all the asphalt paving, complete electrical and drainage operations. We also had to rebuild the shoulders. Not only did we have to get the work done, but we had to meet high quality standards for the material we were placing and for the compaction levels.”
• 36,000 tons of concrete was crushed and recycled for use as a subbase•60,000 tons of excavated soil and 65,000 tons of topsoil were reused on site
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$70 million and included many savings through recycling.
“This facility is connected to the terminal and will save time for our travelers and enhance the CVG experience for the future,” said Candace McGraw, CEO of CVG.
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport photo 10,000 cu. yds. of concrete. was used.
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the runway within minutes. Frankly, we are all relieved to have met the deadlines. It was a great sense of accomplishment for our team, for the airport and for the engineering firms.”
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport photo The project required 120,000 tons of asphalt.
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Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport photo The project came in at just under $70 million and included many savings through recycling.
For 18 days, the construction teams were on the hot seat as they worked on an area where two run ways intersected. Two of the four runways at CVG were out of com mission.“This timing was very important as we needed to get everything done by mid-October when the e-
complete, officials at CVG can tick off several jobs that will increase the airport’s impact on passenger or freight needs in the area.
Last fall, CVG opened a new rental car and ground transporta tion center. The project cost $175 million to complete. The 1.5-mil lion-sq.-ft. facility will encompass 2,700 parking spaces and will be used by 11 rental car companies.
Crews Recycle to Pave Runways at Cincinnati Airport
• 14,000 tons of millings from the old runway were used in the new pavement
Samantha Kleem, vice president of operations at The Harper Company, highlighted the cooper ation between her team and Eaton Asphalt, who performed half the milling and the asphalt paving. Bansal Construction was another key partner, handling the electrical installation.“Thelevel of coordination required in this project was intense,” she said. “Sometimes one of us would complete a phase of the work and a partner would be on
For 18 days, the construction teams worked on an area where two runways intersected.
With the new runway all but
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport photo
The continued expansion of cargo and e-commerce operations at CVG is highlighted by DHL and the Amazon Air Hub located at the airport. By the end of last year, Amazon’s 600-acre facility was operating a dozen flights per day, including millions of packages every week. The Hub represents a $1.5 billion investment in the northern Kentucky region.
The project required 120,000 tons of asphalt and 10,000 cu. yds. of concrete. Some 170,000 cu. yds. of dirt was excavated on the proj ect.In addition to paving, the reha bilitation of the runway included installing more than 2,400 lights and nearly 200 illuminated signs. The lighting installation comprised fully one third of the project. The new LED lights are more energy efficient, producing 350 fewer metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. The LED lights have a life expectancy of approximately 10 years, rather than a few months with the former lights.
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OLA Trade Show Features Latest Snow Removal Equipment
ABC Equipment Rental & Sales’ Tony Migliorino was on hand to show the dealership’s Kubota equipment.
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Greg Dunham (L) of Myers Equipment Corporation was joined by Jason Mattson, manufacturer representative of Meyer Products, to introduce the company’s lineup of snowplows and salt spreaders.
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FEAM AERO is constructing a second hangar at CVG. The $40.2 million facility will encompass 150,000 sq. ft. of hangar and storage space. The facility will be able to accom modate wide-body aircraft types up to a 767 fully enclosed and have three parking spots. The project will be completed by the end of 2023.
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Workers harvested 14,000 tons of millings from the old runway for use in the new pavement.
Runway repairs were essential at CVG airport, the sev enth largest cargo airport in North America.
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport photo Construction teams from The Harper Company and Easton Asphalt used some 120,000 tons of asphalt and 10,000 cu. yds. of concrete to rebuild runway 9/27.
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