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April 30, 2014 • Vol. XXVI • No. 9 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
Inside
Iconic Knoxville Span Set for June Finish
SDLGs Help M&M Dairy Run Clean Operation…8
Yancey Bros. Co. Holds Open House in Ga. …14
Beating the newly projected February 2014 date by more than four months, one lane of traffic in each direction on the Henley Street Bridge reopened in midOctober 2013.
By Lori Lovely
Meeki ns Hosts Sprin g Cont racto rs Auct ion…82
Table of Contents ................4 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................40-42 Recycling Section ........47-61
Connecting downtown Knoxville, Tenn., with south Knoxville and serving as a gateway to the nearby Great Smoky Mountains CEG CORRESPONDENT National Park, the Henley Street Bridge has been carrying U.S. Route 441 traffic across the Tennessee River since 1931. In 2011, the deteriorating bridge was dismantled down to its iconic arches, as part of a multi-million dollar rehabilitation project. “[The Tennessee Department of Transportation’s] bridge engineers determined the bridge was structurally deficient, with deteriorated concrete, deteriorated decks over each of the four main spans and deteriorated floor beams,” said Mark Nagi, community relations officer of Region 1. “The bridge did not meet safety standards and the structure did not meet current minimum seismic requirements.” Historical Connection Named for Colonel David Henley, a Revolutionary War officer and War Department
Cyril Keller Recalls Entrepreneurial Skid Steer Gamble In 1958, Louis Keller drove his truck into the CEG CORRESPONDENT barnyard of western Minnesota turkey farmer John Sonstegard. He entered the building where Sonstegard was working By Giles Lambertson
see HENLEY page 36
see KELLER page 30
March Job Numbers: Some States Up, Some Down
Construction firms added jobs in 38 states “The widespread gains in employment from Florida again led all states in both percentage Attachment Section .............. over the past 12 months, although job gains leva year ago are encouraging, given the tough and total construction gains with an 11.5 percent ......................................63-67
Auction Section ............78-87 Business Calendar ............84 Advertisers Index ..............86
eled off between February and March, according to an analysis April 18 by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data. Association officials said the ongoing year-over-year gains point to the urgency of revitalizing and initiating programs to encourage workers and graduating students to get construction careers.
winter many states experienced right through March,” said Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist. “The never-ending winter of 2014 may account for the dip in the number of states that added construction jobs in the latest month, but it is also possible that single-family homebuilders are not adding workers as some forecasters expected.”
rise and 41,000 new jobs between March 2013 and March 2014. Other states adding a high percentage of new construction jobs for the past 12 months included Oregon (10.8 percent, 75,800 jobs) and Minnesota (10.4 percent, 10,200 jobs). After Florida, California added the most new construction jobs for the year (37,100 jobs, 5.9 see JOBS page 76