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“The Nation’s Best Read Construction Newspaper… Founded 1957.” May 16, 2012 • Vol. XXV • No. 10 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910 • www.constructionequipmentguide.com
Inside
Middlesex Corp. Tames Tricky Fla. Interchange
Carolina CAT Holds Its First CT660 Event… 8
AP Photo/Pool, Mark Lennihan
Ironworkers Jim Brady (L) and Billy Geoghan release a steel cable after connecting a steel beam between two columns at the top of One World Trade Center to make it New York City’s tallest skyscraper.
Ring Power Celebrates 50 Years as Cat Dealer…14
The total project length is 1.3 mi (2.09 km). General contractor Middlesex Corporation, headquartered in Littleton, Mass., will oversee all work.
By Lori Lovely
WTC Is Back on Top in New York City
CEG CORRESPONDENT
The ‘ Shard’ Rise i n Lond on…26
Table of Contents ............4 Paving Section ........33-43 Wheel Loaders, Tool Carriers & Attachments Section ......................47-65 Parts Section ............66-67 Business Calendar ........70 Auction Section ......78-85 Advertisers Index ..........86
By David B. Caruso Seminole County, in partnership with the city of Cassselberry and the Florida ASSOCIATED PRESS Department of Transportation (FDOT), began an improvement project on state Road 436 and Red Bug Lake Road in October 2011 to improve mobility and safety in the NEW YORK (AP) One World Trade Center, the giant heavily traveled area. monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in Originally scheduled to begin in 2010, work is anticipated to be completed approxi- the Sept. 11 attacks, layed claim to the title of New York see INTERCHANGE page 84 City’s tallest skyscraper on April 30. Workers erected steel columns that made its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 ft. high, just enough to peak over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building. The milestone is a preliminary one. Workers are still adding floors to the so-called “Freedom Tower” and it isn’t expected to reach its full height for at least another year, at which point it is likely to be declared the tallest building in the United States, and third tallest in the world. Those bragging rights, though, will carry an asterisk. Crowning the world’s tallest buildings is a little like pickyear politics. Both Congress and By Joan Lowy ing the heavyweight champion in boxing. There is often disPresident Barack Obama have made ASSOCIATED PRESS agreement about who deserves the belt. transportation infrastructure investment In this case, the issue involves the 408-ft.-tall needle that WASHINGTON (AP) Defying the centerpiece of their jobs agendas. But will sit on the tower’s roof. expectations, Congress has reached the the political imperative for passing a bill Count it, and the World Trade Center is back on top. homestretch on a major overhaul of fed- has been complicated by House Otherwise, it will have to settle for No. 2, after the Willis eral transportation programs that is criti- Republicans’ insistence on including a Tower in Chicago. cal if the nation is to avoid steep cut- mandate for federal approval of the “Height is complicated,” said Nathaniel Hollister, a Keystone XL oil pipeline. The White backs in highway and transit aid. spokesman of The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban The bill is driven partly by electionsee BILL page 28
Highway Bill Heads for Legislative Homestretch
see WTC page 74