WLOS-TV - Tue March 09, 2021
North Carolina DOT Needs Skilled Workers, Will Offer Free Training
There is a little-known advantage to western North Carolina's Interstate 26 construction in Buncombe and Henderson counties — free training for new workers. Through the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), people in underserved communities are eligible to attend highway construction trade academies (HCTA)....
ARTBA - Wed February 24, 2021
2015 FAST Act Law Funded More Than 110,000 Road, Bridge Improvements
State governments moved forward with nearly 111,000 new federal-aid highway and bridge projects during the past five years under the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act law, new research from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) shows....
UMA - Wed February 10, 2021
UMA to Break NCDOT Record for Largest Square Footage of Soil Nail Wall
UMA Geotechnical Construction, a North Carolina-based geotechnical contractor serving the Mid-Atlantic Region, is working on a project that will become the largest square footage of soil nail walls done under a single contract in North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) history....
New Jersey Herald - Wed February 03, 2021
Repairs to Four Delaware Water Gap Bridges to Begin in April
Parts of U.S. Highway 209 in far eastern Pennsylvania, the most heavily traveled road owned by the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, will be closed or have restricted traffic beginning in spring 2021 as improvements and upgrades are done on four bridge structures....
VTDigger - Tue January 12, 2021
Burlington, Vt., to Do Pre-Planning for Railyard Road Project
Preliminary engineering on Burlington, Vt.'s railyard enterprise construction project, which will link Pine Street with Battery Street, is slated to begin this summer. The city has long hoped to connect the two major roadways downtown, in part to ease traffic on nearby King and Maple streets, residential areas often congested with cars....
Lowell Sun - Wed November 25, 2020
MassDOT Seeks Federal Funds as State Bridges Fall into Disrepair
You don't have to drive underneath one of the thousands of decaying bridges in Massachusetts to know that the state's infrastructure is far from perfect, but a recent federal report indicates that things are only getting worse....
Caltrans - Tue October 20, 2020
State Receives $493 Million Federal Funds From FHWA
Caltrans announced that the state will receive more than $493 million in additional transportation funding from the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) annual August redistribution. "These federal funds will help Caltrans and local agencies invest in improving the transportation system throughout California....
CEG - Wed October 07, 2020
Contractors Serve as First Responders After Hurricane
Contractors, equipment dealers and the heavy equipment they provide are infrastructure's first responders when natural disasters hit. When Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana on Aug. 27 as a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 150 mph., its destructive path reached the eastern Gulf Coast and made its way as far north as Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee....
CEG - Wed September 30, 2020
New Details Released on Schell Bridge Project in Massachusetts
Northfield, Mass., residents are learning more about the Schell Bridge reconstruction project in their town. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will be overseeing the work when it is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2022....
National Asphalt Pavement Association - Tue September 29, 2020
Asphalt Producers Among Nation's Top Recyclers
Asphalt, you ask, has gone green? Yes, and they're not new players in the space, either, according to NAPA. The country's most diligent recyclers are asphalt mixture producers, who utilize more than 94 percent of old asphalt pavements in new pavement construction....
