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® September 7 2025 Vol. XXVI • No. 18
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Inside
Webber Widens Texas Spur 399/SH 5 A Komatsu PC360LC-11 excavator stockpiles materials for a future embankment.
TerraPower Starts On Wyoming Facility...8
By Jay Nachman
Liebherr Bolsters Job Site Efficiency...12
Wirtgen Touts New Large Milling Machine...33
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is taking steps to address anticipated highway congestion in rapidly growing Collin County in Texas by widening Spur 399/State Highway 5 from four to six lanes. The $168 million project includes the construction of eight new bridges and the widening of two others. The approximately 2-mi. stretch of roadway between Stewart Road and Eldorado Parkway is nearly 40 mi. north of Dallas. The road widening is intended to make the CEG CORRESPONDENT
highway “easier and safer for the traveling public,” said Carlos Arocha, a senior project manager with Webber, a Ferrovial company, the project contractor. As the spur reaches its northern endpoint, it will taper back to four lanes. Arocha said there are anywhere from 40 to 60 workers on the site. Two crews are installing drainage, using excavators and rollers. Another two crews are setting up temporary detours to reroute traffic, using bulldozers, a motor grader, rollers and a water truck.
Workers use a 70ton rough-terrrain crane to help with the pouring of the first column of the project on the northbound ramp at Stewart Road Bridge.
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Tamping Down Supply-Chain Issues Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Pandemic-Tested Contractors Paving Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33-48 Can Work Through Sudden Utility Equipment Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49-52 Changes in Price, Availability By Lucy Perry Auction Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60-65 Business Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 Advertisers Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
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Uncertainty about material prices and availability is nothing new to construction contractors. They know that neither the most detailed plan nor the best-crafted contract will help when delivery falls short. “Go” becomes “no-go” in an instant, creating a ripple effect and hitting other areas of the construction project from see SUPPLY page 20
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