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® September 6 2023 Vol. XXXV • No. 18
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Officials Utilizing Smart Work Zone On $122M Project By Lori Tobias
Bridge Construction Over S.C. Lake Could Begin in 2025...8
CEG CORRESPONDENT
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is managing traffic for a $122 million bridge replacement project in Jupiter using a Smart Work Zone, part of an Intelligent Transportation System that will be permanently installed. “A Smart Work Zone is a series of strategies and technologies employed around an infrastructure project to Orlando Hosts Annual increase safety and increase mobility Landscape Show...18 for the area,” said Daniel Smith, FDOT operations manager. Those strategies include real-time traffic information and other technologies managed by the agency’s Traffic Management Center. “We have ways to monitor traffic,” Smith said. “We know how many vehicles are passing through any given Top Talent, Machines Key spot. We have engineers looking to optimize the traffic signals through the to Success for Virginia Family Business...37
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BABA: Sold American Final Rule Stipulates Domestic Made Construction Materials On Federal Projects By Lucy Perry CEG CORRESPONDENT
In mid-August, the White House issued final guidance on the controversial Build America Buy America Act (BABA). President Joe Biden aims to bolster the economy “from the middle down and the bottom up.” With some exceptions, the word to the construction industry is to use American-made materials built by American workers. “It’s transforming our country for the better,” said Livia Shmavonian, director of the federal Made in America office. see BABA page 68
BABA supports the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s rule that manufactured products, construction materials, iron and steel in federally funded infrastructure projects be made in America.