Lori Tobias - Fri September 01, 2017
Repairs Under Way on Longest Suspension Bridge in New England
Work is well under way on a project to repair the deck of Rhode Island's Newport/Pell Bridge — at 11,247 ft. long, it is the longest suspension bridge in New England. “This is a major undertaking replacing the deck of this bridge,” said Jim Malachowski, spokesman of the RDW Group, the Providence-based public relations firm representing the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority....
Fri September 01, 2017
SDLG's Intuitive Design Wins Over City of Keene, N.H.
Keene, N.H., has used an SDLG LG959 for loading aggregate materials and snow removal since September 2016, and city operators appreciate the wheel loader's quality and simplicity. Several municipalities around North America have adopted SDLG wheel loaders for use in seasonal work, from the New Jersey Department of Transportation to the Canadian province of Saskatchewan....
Fri September 01, 2017
Work Set to Begin on Another New Hampshire-Maine Span
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) Transportation officials from Maine and New Hampshire are getting ready to begin a rehabilitation project on the Piscataqua River bridge that carries Interstate 95 between Portsmouth and Kittery....
Fri September 01, 2017
Federal Funding in Place for Bridge Between N.H., Vt.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire said federal funding is in place to build a new bridge between New Hampshire and Vermont. They said the New Hampshire Department of Transportation will receive $5 million in federal funding to replace the Rogers' Rangers Bridge on U.S....
Fri September 01, 2017
Black Splitter Attachment Ignites Md. Company's Firewood Production
Maryland Landscape Supply of Ellicott City, Md., dramatically improved the cost and efficiency of its firewood processing operation with the purchase of a Black Splitter S2X 800 hydraulic wood splitting attachment from Atlantic Excavator Attachments....
Mon August 21, 2017
Penn College to Debut Concrete Science Major in Fall 2018
A two-year major in the opportunity-rich field of concrete science technology will be offered at Pennsylvania College of Technology — the only program of its kind on the East Coast — beginning in the fall 2018 semester....
Mon August 21, 2017
Gov. Carney Signs HB 190 to Modernize Coastal Zone Act
Gov. John Carney on Aug. 2, signed into law House Bill 190 — bipartisan legislation that modernizes Delaware's Coastal Zone Act. The new law will allow for the responsible redevelopment of 14 legacy industrial sites in the coastal zone, new job creation and additional environmental clean-up of those legacy sites along Delaware's coastline....
Lori Lovely - Mon August 21, 2017
ASR Issues Cause PennDOT to Replace Miles of I-84
A few years ago, Pennsylvania DOT began the biggest project in northeastern Pennsylvania since the Casey Highway was built in the 1990s: replacing Interstate 84 through Pike and Wayne Counties. The highway, built between 1972 and 1977 is “rotting from bottom up,” PennDOT spokesman James May said in an interview with the Pocono Record in 2013....
Mon August 21, 2017
Musk Proposes Hyperloop for NY-Washington Corridor
WASHINGTON (AP) Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said he has "verbal government approval" to build a tunnel for high-speed transportation from New York to Washington that could break ground by the end of this year....
Mon August 21, 2017
Lane Construction Wins $232M Contract for Unionport Bridge
The Lane Construction Corporation, a U.S. subsidiary of Salini Impregilo, in a joint-venture partnership with Schiavone Construction Co. LLC, has won a contract for the Bruckner Expressway over Westchester Creek (Unionport Bridge) project located in Bronx County, New York....
