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Vol. XXXII • No. 6
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Crews Clean Up After N.C. Rock Slide By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
One-Day JCB Demo Leads to Purchase…8
LeeBoy Culture Goes Beyond Family Roots…40
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) called out heavy equipment to clean up a rockslide that occurred along Interstate 40 near the Tennessee state line in Haywood County. Westbound lanes were closed at the highway U.S. 276 exit and eastbound lanes were closed at the Harmon Den exit. A detour was in place as crews worked to stabilize the hillside. Nathan Tanner, District 2 resident engineer of NCDOT, reported that the slide occurred around 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22 when enough debris to fill two dump trucks came down on the outside of I-40 West. It was reported that heavy, sustained rainfall was a contributing factor to the slide. “Sometime in the 1990s, material at the top of the slope settled and never came off,” CEG file photo Tanner said. “Our geotechnical engineers A previous rock slide occurred in 2009 along the same stretch of I-40 as the latest slide in see ROCK page 68
IEDA Gathers in Orlando for Meeting, Expo…80
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Mashburn Raises First Five-Story ‘Tilt-Up’ in S.C. A project to create the first five-story tilt-up building in South Carolina is currently under way in Myrtle Beach. The new medical office building, which will be located adjacent to an existing hospital, is the result of a partnership between the Grand Strand Medical Center and HCP Inc., a real estate investment trust. The contract was awarded to Mashburn Construction, Columbia, S.C., which began construction in late 2018. The approximate total cost is $22 million including tenant upfits. Completion is scheduled for the fall of 2019. The 95,000-sq.-ft facility will be located off 79th Avenue North on the campus of Grand Strand Medical Center. Services will reportedly include physician offices for heart and vascular care, spine and neurological care, general surgery, cosmetic and reconstructive surgery and primary care. Currently, Mashburn Construction is using a crane weighing 700,000 lbs. to install panels that weigh approximately 160,000 lbs. each. “The crane was provided through Citadel Contractors Inc.,” explained Lindsey Culley, business development and marketing coordinator for Mashburn. “We have had the crane on site for By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
Asphalt, Concrete, Paving, Compaction & Milling Section ......36-62 Parts Section ..............63 Auction Section ....86-95 Business Calendar......90 Advertisers Index ......94
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Representatives from Mashburn Construction, Baker Barrios Architects, HCP Inc. and Grand Strand Healthcare take part in the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Grand Strand medical office building in Myrtle Beach, S.C.