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the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and ADOT project manager, credited cooperation between the city, the contractor and the highway department. “All of us just worked really well together,” he said. Kiewit-Sundt, a joint venture between the Phoenix office of Kiewit and Sundt Construction of Tempe, was the general con-
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When the U.S. Senate failed in September to enact six-year transportation legislation or to extend the existing funding authority in a responsible way, it created a billion-dollar-a-month hole for the construction industry. “The baseline for the federal highway account is reduced by a billion dollars each month we have a continuing resolution,” said Tony Dorsey, media spokesman of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). “It will cost our members one billion dollars every month we have a resolution.” While the huge loss is mostly on paper — so far — it nonetheless is a drag on the construction economy. Here’s the deal: Though the Senate agreed with the House at the very last moment to a one-month extension of existing transportation funding authority, senators failed to include a provision to roll back funding rescissions stipulated in the last six-year bill. The $8.7 billion in rescission money was a bookkeeping method of understating the true cost of SAFETEA-LU, which was passed in 2005 (two years into the six
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Health care reform in the United States has been beaten nearly to death this year by advocates and critics alike. Yet as the debate moves into October, the final shape of “reform” remains elusive and elastic with construction industry executives anxious about its impact on their companies. Any change in the system definitely will have impact on contractors and a sweeping change could upend smaller firms — and most construction companies are small-tomedium-sized. The truth of the matter is the reform model in which government would provide most health care services would dramatically change the way every business operates, large or small. It is impractical to hope that health care reform will be tailored to the construction industry. Nevertheless, small businesses consistently favor certain reform initiatives over others. Were Washington to institute reform along the lines general contractors might lay down, the following features would be among the legislated changes: • New authority for associations to negotiate insurance packages for their members. Besides gaining clout in negotiating benefits, association insurance negotiators could win lower premiums, if given the opportunity. Associated Builders and Contractors noted that private insurance carriers must mark up premiums as much as 35 percent when dealing with small groups in order to meet profit targets and offset overhead. Whereas associations can provide the same administrative services for their members at a cost of 15 percent or less — if, that is, members are allowed to buy insurance through small business
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Horrocks Engineering and H.W. Lochner Engineering are the designers and Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction is the general contractor. Some of the bridges were transported as much as a mile and a half which is “a good distance,” Montoya said. “That was significant. There are a fair amount of projects where you move a bridge a couple hundred feet but we actually moved some of them a mile and a half.” The bridges that were moved vary in length from 85 to 173 ft. (25.9 to 52.7 m) and were 43 to 94 ft. (13 to 28.6 m) wide, Carlye Sommers, public involvement manager for Lochner, said. The largest weighed in at 1,350 tons (1,220 t). The SPMTs that moved the bridges had approximately 250 wheels and moved at an average speed of five miles per hour, Sommers said. The only route crews could move the bridges down was the same one they were working on so
The bridges that were moved vary in length from 85 to 173 ft. (25.9 to 52.7 m) and were 43 to 94 ft. (13 to 28.6 m) wide. The largest weighed in at 1,350 tons (1,220 t). Scott-Macon n Holds s Grand g in n Dallas…14 Opening
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Work on a Utah freeway reconstruction project so unusual it was featured as National Geographic Channel’s “World’s Toughest Fixes” is heading for an on-time, on-budget completion at the end of the year. What made work on a 2-mi. (3.2 km) stretch of I-80 in Salt Lake City project extraordinary was the Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) method using Self Propelled Modular Transports (SPMT) to construct six of 12 bridges and one of two ramps in the project. The $139 million project along a 2-mi. stretch from State Street to 1300 East through Salt Lake City includes construction of the bridges and ramp “not at their final location,” John Montoya, project manager, said. Instead, the girders and decks were constructed on the ground at a “bridge farm.” Massive transporters moved them to be lifted into place along the expressway.
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After many years of discussion, an ambitious project to ease congestion in Pennsylvania’s densely populated Bucks and Montgomery counsee PARKWAY page 30 ties is finally under way with construction of a long-awaited parkway. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has estimated that by 2020 the new highway will be traveled by between 23,700 and 28,300 vehicles daily Gov. Martin O’Malley announced that additional transportation Certain changes, however, projects worth $30 million will be funded by President Barack had to be made before ground Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). could be broken for the project. Funding for these additional projects is available due to savings According to PennDOT, the generated by the intense competition for Maryland’s ARRA highparkway had initially been way and transit contracts advertised earlier this year. planned as an expressway with “Without a doubt, President Obama’s recovery program is genlimited access. However, in erating the desired effect here in Maryland,” said O’Malley. March 2004, the department “Across our state, work is under way rehabilitating our roads, bridges and transit systems. Healthy competition for those state realized its projected revenues would not provide enough see FUNDS page 116 funding for all its proposed
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Health care reform in the United States has been beaten nearly to death this year by advocates and critics alike. Yet as the debate moves into October, the final shape of “reform” remains elusive and elastic with construction industry executives anxious about its impact on their companies. Any change in the system definitely will have impact on contractors and a sweeping change could upend smaller firms — and most construction companies are small-tomedium-sized. The truth of the matter is the reform model in which government would provide most health care services would dramatically change the way every business operates, large or small. It is impractical to hope that health care reform will be tailored to the construction industry. Nevertheless, small businesses consistently favor certain reform initiatives over others. Were Washington to institute reform along the lines general contractors might lay down, the following features would be among the legislated changes: • New authority for associations to negotiate insurance packages for their members. Besides gaining clout in negotiating benefits, association insurance negotiators could win lower premiums, if given the opportunity. Associated Builders and Contractors noted that private insurance carriers must mark up premiums as much as 35 percent when dealing with small groups in order to meet profit targets and offset overhead. Whereas associations can provide the same administrative services for their members at a cost of 15 percent or less — if, that is, members are allowed to buy insurance through small business health plan pools. see REFORM page 22
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In trucking, cooperation is everything. The same could be said for construction work, all contracting and the running of any successful club or organization. Cooperation in all these arenas came together as one at the Antique Truck Club of America’s Little Rhody Chapter’s Sixth Annual Antique Truck Show on Sept. 13 on the Washington County Fairgrounds in Richmond, R.I. Working in conjunction with the Historical Construction Equipment Association’s (HCEA) Northeast Rockbusters once again, more than 60 members of the local Antique Truck Club brought out their finest old equipment, to the delight and surprise of other members, guests and enthusiasts. The Antique Truck Club and the Rockbusters hold this event every September, drawing people from every New England state. Machines that range from the unusual to the sublime fill the flat fields of the fairgrounds for passersby to
admire. “We combine our shows. We support them and they support us, even in the rain,” said Jackie Volatile, who organizes these shows with her husband, Roger, the club’s president. What made the presidential couple so proud this year was that the event was organized to raise money and food for the Rhode Island Food Bank. We brought in 800 pounds of canned goods. Last year, we fed 2,000 needy families for a year and we are quite proud of that,” said Jackie Volatile. They also are very proud of the cooperation and shared interests of their members who bring any and all working antique machines to these events, as long as they are able. “We welcome classic trucks, we welcome tractors, anything that comes in,” added Roger Volatile. “Antique is antique to us.” The Volatiles represent the Little Rhody Chapter at national events, usually held in the National Chapter’s home state of Pennsylvania. “There are 21 different chapters in the see ROCKBUSTERS page 14
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A short 19-mi. (30.5 km) stretch of road just north of Detroit has been transformed into an improvement project with a rather complicated strategy. Extensive work on the I-96/I-696 corridor in Oakland and Macomb counties has been divided into four separate projects. Project 1 consists of rehabilitation of eight bridges and repair of 4 mi. (6.4 km) of pavement in Oakland County between Novi and Halsted roads, including the I-96/I-696/M-5 interchange in Novi and Farmington Hills. Project 2 picks up where the first project ends and involves pavement patching and rehabilitation of 42 bridges on I-696 in Oakland County between Halsted and Campbell-Hilton roads. Project 3 focuses on rehabilitating 22 bridges on I-696, 15 of which are located within the I696/Mound Road interchange. Project 4 includes rehabilitation of six bridges and extensive pavement repairs to I-696 between Hayes and Nieman roads in Macomb County. Also included are safety upgrades and lighting replacement on the median and ramps. Overlap For all practical purposes, the $67 million overall project has been divided into two contracts — east and west — with two prime contractors: Dan’s Excavating out of Grant, Mich., on the west contract and C.A. Hall on the east. But even that division is a little blurry. “There are overlapping facets,” says Bob Daavettila, construction director for Tetra Tech,
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A total of 56 bridges will undergo rehabilitation. Because C.A. Hall is a subcontractor for all bridge work on both contracts and since there is a lot of bridge work in the west contract, Hall is doing considerable work on both.
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By Giles Lambertson Health care reform in the United States has been beaten nearly to death this year by advocates and critics alike. Yet as the debate moves into October, the final shape of “reform” remains elusive and elastic with construction industry executives anxious about its impact on their companies. Any change in the system definitely will have impact on contractors and a sweeping change could upend smaller firms — and most construction companies are small-to-medium-sized. The truth of the matter is the
reform model in which government would provide most health care services would dramatically change the way every business operates, large or small. It is impractical to hope that health care reform will be tailored to the construction industry. Nevertheless, small businesses consistently favor certain reform initiatives over others. Were Washington to institute reform along the lines general contractors might lay down, the following features would be among the legislated changes: • New authority for associations to negotiate insurance packages see REFORM page 51
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On July 9 officials in Nashville, Tenn., broke ground on Phase II of the Interstate 40 White Bridge Road Interchange Improvement Project. Phase I was finished during the summer 2005. Since then, the project has been stalled for four years because of lack of funding. Now, the $32million project is being totally funded through money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which the President signed into law in February Many dignitaries, including Gov Phil Bredesen and Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) Commissioner Gerald Nicely, were on hand for the groundbreaking ceremony “This project will enhance Nashville’s already excellent transportation system,” said Bredesen at the ceremony. “It will improve access to Interstate 40 and Briley Parkway and will contribute to continued economic development in West Nashville.”
Bell & Associates Construction LP, Brentwood, Tenn., is the prime contractor for Phase II, which includes a new interchange at I40 and Briley Parkway/White Bridge Road/Robertson Road. The company also constructed the $43-million Phase I.
Bell & Associates Construction is the prime contractor for the $32 million project. The company has all-terrain cranes by Lorain hard at work on the job site.
The contract also includes construction of two flyover ramps to and from I-40 and Briley Parkway, plus the replacement of the White Bridge Road Bridge over I-40. In addition, three noise barriers and five retaining walls will be built and a pedestrian bridge located just west of the interchange will be replaced. “The project is just over a mile long,” explained Jeremy Mitchell, project manager with Bell & Associates. There will be “three lanes west and three lanes east on I-40 and two auxiliary lanes for the new ramps.” The Interstate will be constructed of asphalt, and the ramps will be concrete paving. There will be more than 20,000 cu. yds. (15,200 cu. m) of concrete used on this project. The two major bridges being built are the White Bridge Road Bridge and the pedestrian bridge. The White Bridge Road Bridge, measuring just over 1,500 ft. (457 m) long, is being constructed of single-column hammerhead piers and structural steel plate girders. The pedestrian bridge is approximately 230 ft. (70 m) long and see TDOT page 40
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Gov Charlie Crist and his “stimulus czar’’ said Oct. 9 that a recent federal report supports Florida’s go-slow approach to spending federal recovery money earmarked for highway projects and schools. Even so, Florida’s overall stimulus spending is a bit ahead of schedule, said czar Don Winstead, whose official title is special adviser to the governor on economic stimulus. Federal officials in February said they expected the state to spend about 20 percent of its estimated $15 billion in stimulus money by the end of September “I think we will be ahead of that sched-
ule,’’ Winstead said. “We are seeing rapid deployment and we’ll see over the next couple of months additional rapid deployment of some of the larger projects.’’ In letters to state lawmakers and members of Florida’s congressional delegation, Crist cited a Government Accountability Office report that focuses on stimulus spending for education, transportation and Medicaid. Winstead spoke about it in a teleconference with reporters. In August, U.S. Rep. James Oberstar, a Minnesota Democrat who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, sent Crist a letter chiding Florida for ranking last in spending stimulus money designated for highway projects and urged him to “refocus your efforts.’’
Health care reform in the United States has been beaten nearly to death this year by advocates and critics alike. Yet as the debate moves into October, the final shape of “reform” remains elusive and elastic with construction industry executives anxious about its impact on their companies. Any change in the system definitely will have impact on contractors and a sweeping change could upend smaller firms — and most construction companies are small-to-medium-sized. The truth of the matter is the reform model in which government would provide most health care services would dramatically
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University of Oregon (UO) basketball fans are eagerly following the progress of the new Matthew Knight Arena, which replaces the affectionately regarded but much outdated McArthur Court. McArthur Court, nicknamed Mac Court and The Pit, is the second oldest on-campus gym in the country, according to UO’s sports history Web site. Built in 1926, the court’s original capacity was 6,000; improvements over the years brought capacity to its current 9,087. “There are a lot of fond memories of The Pit,” said Tim Clevenger, vice president of marketing and brand management at The Papé Group Inc., who is a UO graduate and past president of the university’s alumni association. “However, as the program has grown, it’s just been
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harder and harder to get people in there.” “Matt Court,” as some fans refer to the new arena, will seat 12,541 — in wider, modern-style seats with better court views — and have more than four times as many restrooms compared to McArthur Court. The Matthew Knight Arena is named in honor of UO patron Phil Knight’s son, who died in 2004. In 2007, the cofounder of Nike pledged $100 million to the university’s athletic department, catalyzing funding of the $230-million arena project. Ground breaking for the 397,825-sq.ft. (36,960 sq m) arena took place in February. The first Ducks game in the new arena is scheduled to take place as early as December of next year, giving general contractor Hoffman Construction and approximately 70 subcontractors less
Over the weekend of Oct. 10, a massive landslide covered a half mile of state Route 410 in Nile Valley, Wash., with rock and debris up to 30 ft. (9.1 m) deep. The slide disrupted the course of the Naches River, pushing the riverbed up the slope opposite the slide, leaving fish exposed on the rocks dozens of feet above their previous home. The affected section of highway is between Mount Rainer National Park and SR 410’s junction with U.S. 12, about 20 mi. northwest of Yakima. The slide also damaged another main route, Nile Road, which runs parallel to SR 410. When both of those roadways were closed, the 1,500 residents of Nile Valley were faced with a 90-mi. detour. The cause of the slide is unknown. Although Washington’s Department of Natural Resources is investigating further, right now the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is less concerned with the “why” behind the slide and more focused on the “how” of fixing the problem. The first step for WSDOT and contractor Selland Construction Inc., based in Wenatchee, Wash., was to build a temporary emergency route on Nile Road for local traffic. Crews spent the week following the slide bringing
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