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June 5 2022 Vol. XXIII • No. 12
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Inside
New Tech Helps Asphalt Road Construction...8
McCarthy’s Expansion of Port Houston Will Help Supply Chain Woes By Chuck MacDonald CEG CORRESPONDENT
Skanska Exec’s Service for a Greater Community...12
Bergmann Dumpers Come to N.A. Market...28
Supply chain issues have been in the news these last two years like never before. Pictures of giant container ships getting stuck in the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, the Chesapeake Bay and elsewhere have appeared in the media. Ships have been lined up in the ocean like cars mired in rush hour traffic. Large container ships and the ports that serve them were once an almost invisible part of the magic that brought products from factories to the stores to the consumers. No longer. What is happening at the ports has become visible and more important than ever. Port Houston, the nation’s largest port for waterboard tonnage, receives some of these gargantuan ships and processes some three million containers each year, ranking sixth in the nation overall for total container TEUs. Port Houston owns eight public terminals along the 52-mi.-long Houston ship channel. This includes the two terminals at Bayport and Port Houston Blog photo Barbours Cut. A visitor to these terminals would inevitably come away McCarthy Building Companies has undertaken an $86 million saying it’s either “big” or “enormous.” The port is about to get even bigger as McCarthy Building Companies project for the expansion of the Bayport Wharf 6 at Port Houston and a $14 million project for rehabilitation of Container Yard 3N at Barbours Cut Terminal.
see PORT page 60
Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Paving Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29-43 Auction Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64-71 Business Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 Advertisers Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
FHWA Updates Bridge Inspection Rules Changes Include Technological Advances, Outdated Program Appeal, More The FHWA has updated its National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS) for highway bridges per requirements in the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). The updates incorporate technological advancements including drone use and repeal of the outdated Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program and the Discretionary Bridge Candidate Rating Factor. FHWA said the final rule, effective June 6, 2022, includes new requirements for a highway bridge inspection program, maintaining a bridge inventory The final rule updates requirements for and reporting inspection results. maintaining a bridge inventory and reporting
By Lucy Perry
CEG CORRESPONDENT
see RULES page 52
the results of bridge inspections.
