Southeast #12,2012

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Published Nationally ®

Southeast Edition $3.00

“The Nation’s Best Read Construction Newspaper… Founded 1957.” June 13, 2012 • Vol. XXV • No. 12 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910 • www.constructionequipmentguide.com

Inside

Fort Jackson Improves Facilities for Recruits

Golden Gate Bridge Turns 75 Years Old…8

Nor trax Helps Celebrate Deere Milestone…18

By Cindy Riley CEG CORRESPONDENT

Ris h Names New Manage me nt Team…28

Table of Contents ................4 Air Compressors, Generators & Light Towers Section41-45

Photo courtesy of BLHI

Roof truss and decking installation.

A $37 million construction project is nearing completion at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., providing recruits with modern training facilities. Basic Training Complex III is located on 35 acres within the United States Army Base.

Fort Jackson BTC III is a Battalion Company Operations Facility (BCOF) Complex consisting of three 64,689 sq.ft. (6,009 sq m), three-story BCOF structures. Each is oriented on a 70-acre site to create a campus layout surrounding training areas. The design consists of “L” shaped buildings housing 228 soldiers and a total site capacity of 1,440 see BCOF page 34

Demolition Work Continues on Bridge in Busy Orlando

AGC Asks Obama Administration to Reconsider Quotas The Associated General Contractors of America joined with 10 other national business associations in calling on the Obama administration to reconsider a series of new hiring mandates it wants to impose on contractors working on federal projects. Association officials noted that the government has failed to produce any data justifying the very costly and incredisee AGC page 84

Paving Section ............49-63 By Peter Hildebrandt

Parts Section ....................64 Auction Section ..........80-91 Business Calendar ............86 Advertisers Index ..............90

CEG CORRESPONDENT

At a hectic series of central Florida interchanges, SR 417 and SR 408 there was little time available for demolishing the old bridges and then reconstructing new ones in their place. As a result, the new bridges needed were constructed and then when traffic was up and running the demolition of the older structures took place. Interstate 4 in Florida loops around the north side of Orlando. This project is on the southeast corner of Orlando. see DEMOLITION page 38

Tracked excavator continues bridge work above while road markers below keep motorists to the side, farthest from the work.


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