Raleigh News & Observer - Mon November 18, 2024
NCDOT Engineers Able to Rebuild Gap in Key Highway Bridge Damaged By Hurricane
The small mountain community of Bat Cave, in the rugged Hickory Nut Gorge southeast of Asheville, N.C., paid a heavy price in late September for being in the path of the remnants of what was Hurricane Helene....
Magni Telescopic Handlers - Mon November 18, 2024
Magni Telescopic Handlers Broadens Dealer Network With Carolina Cat in North Carolina
Magni Telescopic Handlers, a leader in rotating, fixed boom and heavy lift telehandlers, announced its new collaboration with Carolina Cat, a leading equipment supplier with nine locations across North Carolina....
Larry Lea, Thunder Creek Equipment - Wed November 13, 2024
Civil Contractor Brings PM Work In-House; Simplifies Fleet Management Schedules, Costs
Safety. Integrity. Reliability. Those are the principles that Cardinal Civil Contracting operates by on every infrastructure and site preparation job it handles. This full-service contracting company provides turnkey solutions for its customers — everything from surveying, site clearing and grading, to underground utilities, paving and more....
CEG - Fri November 08, 2024
Gregory Poole's Demo Days Event Features Cat Iron
Gregory Poole Equipment Co. held a Demo Days event Oct. 24, 2024, at the Caterpillar Customer Center in Clayton, N.C. The highly anticipated event gives attendees the chance to demo equipment before purchasing and view newly announced equipment from Cat....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu November 07, 2024
Raising I-95 in North Carolina's Coastal Plain
One small town getting hit by a pair of destructive floods in three years by powerful hurricanes is almost assuredly going to lead to expensive engineering countermeasures. That certainly has been the case the last few years in Lumberton, N.C., where Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Florence in 2018 each caused 1,000-year-floods along the city's Lumber River and inundated sections of Interstate 95, the United States' primary freeway on the East Coast, leading to its partial closure in the Tarheel State's Coastal Plain....
NCDOT - Thu November 07, 2024
NCDOT Estimates Date for 2-Way Traffic in Gorge
Traffic may be flowing in both directions on North Carolina's Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge — albeit slower than normal — by New Year's Day. N.C. Department of Transportation officials anticipate a contractor completing a stabilization project securing the westbound lanes of I-40 in the gorge....
Hoopaugh Grading Company - Thu November 07, 2024
Hoopaugh Grading's Clay Shoot Breaks Fundraising Record
Hoopaugh Grading Company (HGC) demonstrated its continued commitment to community impact by hosting its annual Clay Shoot fundraiser, generating an unprecedented $220,000 for Dream On 3, a Charlotte, N.C.-based nonprofit that makes sports dreams come true for children and teens living with life-altering conditions....
CEG - Wed October 30, 2024
NCDOT Says Coal Miners Only Helped Clear Path Near Key Storm-Damaged Highway
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) on Nov. 1 cleared up online misinformation over reports that West Virginia coal miners constructed an access road destroyed by Hurricane Helene between Bat Cave into Chimney Rock....
Chapelboro.com - Wed October 30, 2024
Expansion of $94M UNC Nursing School Gets Under Way, Set to Finish in 2026
Dignitaries, alumni, donors and guests gathered in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Oct. 25 in Kenan Stadium's Blue Zone for a groundbreaking ceremony prior to the expansion of the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Nursing's education building....
CEG - Wed October 16, 2024
NCDOT Selects Contractor to Begin Making Repairs On Hurricane-Damaged Interstate 40
Of all the roads that need fixing in western North Carolina, none will pose a bigger challenge than Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge. As a result of Hurricane Helene, the swollen river scoured the earth below the four-lane highway and washed away the eastbound lanes in several places....
