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February 8, 2014 • Vol. IX • No. 3 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215/885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215/885-2910
Inside
AED Names Watters 2014 Chairman, Five New Officers
AED Holds Annual Summit Show…8
A surveyor sets up his gear near the south end of the SR 99 tunnel on Dec. 6, 2013. Bertha, the SR 99 tunneling machine completed her first 1,000 ft. (304.8 m) of tunneling a day earlier.
Bobcat Launches Campaign With Giveaway…12
Seattle’s SR 99 Alaskan Way Tunnel Progresses By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
Allmand Celebrates Milestone…48
Table of Contents ....................4 Attachment & Parts Section .... ..........................................15-19 Truck & Trailer Section ....27-28 Business Calendar ................34 Recycling Section ............35-47 Auction Section ................50-59 Advertisers Index ..................58
Crews operating a Hitachi Zosen Corporation tunnel boring machine began boring operations on July 30 on the $2 billion, 1.7 mi. (2.7 km) tunnel to replace the SR 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct (SR 99 Tunnel Project) in Seattle, Wash., and have made substantial progress since.
AED 2014 Chairman Tim Watters, along with five AED officers, was installed at a ceremony during the Chairman’s Inaugural Breakfast on Jan. 17 at the AED Summit in Houston.
The tunnel, a design-build project for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), is being built by the Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP), a joint-venture of Dragados USA and the Tutor Perini Corp. When completed, the tunnel will replace a more than 60-yearold double-deck highway with a doubledeck tunnel with two lanes in each direc-
AED 2014 Chairman Tim Watters, along with five AED officers, was installed at a ceremony during the Chairman’s Inaugural Breakfast on Jan. 17 at the AED Summit in Houston. The group will guide the association for the coming year as members of the executive committee. Watters is president/owner of Piscataway, N.J.-based Hoffman Equipment, which represents Case, Manitowoc, JCB, Liebherr, Terex, LeeBoy, Rosco, Doosan, Atlas Copco, Gradall and other brands. Watters has been an AED board member since 2007. He accepted the gavel from installing officer Dennis Kruepke, an AED past chairman and chairman of McCann Industries. AED Foundation President Roy Kern
see TUNNEL page 26
see WATTERS page 56
Construction Employment Increases in 34 States Construction firms added jobs in 34 states over the past 12 months, but construction employment declined in 32 states and the District of Columbia between November and December as many parts of the country coped with weather, according to an analysis released Jan. 28 by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data. Association officials noted that while cold, wintry weather in parts of the country likely contributed to many of the declines, they urged Washington officials to take steps to ensure
continued growth for the industry and the economy. “While the year-over-year numbers are encouraging, we want to make sure the monthly declines are more about the weather than they are a sudden downturn in demand,” said Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist. “While we will have to wait for more data to understand where the market is heading, the industry could certainly benefit from more private-sector activity and public-sector invest-
ments.” Mississippi led all states with an 18 percent rise (8,500 jobs) in construction employment between December 2012 and December 2013. The state ranked 18th out of 50 states plus D.C. between November and December, with no net gain or loss. Conversely, South Dakota topped the monthly rankings, adding 3.4 percent (700 construction jobs), and added 4.9 percent (1,100 jobs) over 12 months. On the other hand, Indiana see EMPLOYMENT page 57