Lisa Coston - Thu September 15, 2005
Honda Transmission Plant Bringing Jobs to Tallapoosa
Rural Haralson County, GA, 40 miles west of Atlanta, is home to approximately 26,000 residents, most of whom have either grown up with someone who worked in the thriving textile mills in and around Tallapoosa, or they have worked in the textile mills themselves....
Wed July 13, 2005
Freedom Tower Redesigned to Be World’s Safest Skyscraper
NEW YORK (AP) Hurriedly redesigned to make it less vulnerable to a truck bomb, ground zero’s Freedom Tower will lose its distinctive, twisting look but will be the safest skyscraper in the world, officials said June 29....
Dorinda Anderson - Wed February 02, 2005
Contractor Outwits Mother Nature on U.S. Hwy. 281 Job in ND
Heavy rains for the first two months of a road widening project could have wreaked havoc on an early fall deadline but, thanks to an accelerated work schedule, the U.S. Highway 281 project was finished several weeks early....
Gwenyth Laird Pernie - Thu August 05, 2004
Eagle Crews Put Finishing Touches on Ladson Road
In December 2000, Eagle Construction Co. Inc. of Newberry, SC, began widening 5 mi. (8 km) of Ladson Road (between U.S. 78 and Dorchester Road) in Charleston and Dorchester counties, SC. Expected to be completed sometime later this month, the road will have an additional three lanes as well as a new bridge crossing Eagle Creek....
Giles Lambertson - Tue September 16, 2003
East to West, FL’s I-4 Spreads Out
Contractors are upgrading Interstate 4 in central Florida, section-by-section, reshaping the future of the heavily-traveled highway.
The 20 or so projects planned, completed or in progress along its 140-mi....
Kerry Lynn Kirby - Wed August 20, 2003
$162M Skyscraper Grows Roots on Mobile Waterfront
Workers currently are laying the groundwork for the tallest skyscraper in Alabama and one of the tallest buildings in the Southeast.
The Retirement Systems of Alabama’s (RSA) $162-million, 800-ft....
Cindy Riley - Wed April 23, 2003
Crews Transform Birmingham Mall Into Vestavia Center
Developers with AIG Baker have recently transformed an outdated Birmingham, AL, mall into an open-air shopping center that includes a new theater, a Publix supermarket and space for numerous retail shops and restaurants....
Troy M. Hawks - Mon November 18, 2002
$1B ’Reunion’ Gathers Momentum
What is now little more than large open fields of windswept grasses along Denver’s northeast corridor will soon house some 30,000 residents. Shea Homes has begun construction on the first phase of 750 homes that will ultimately make up the $1-billion, 2,500-acre Reunion master planned community near the Denver International Airport.
Already, subcontractor Hogan Action of Denver has moved more than 273 acres or 1.6 million cu....
Wed October 09, 2002
Deer Creek Brings John Deere Pull Scrapers to Earthmoving Contractors
John Deere tractor/scrapers are the new kids on the block and Deer Creek Equipment is introducing them to local earthmoving contractors.
In 1997, the company saw an opportunity to expand its product offerings to include earthmoving equipment, such as John Deere and Miskin pull scrapers....
Pete Sigmund - Wed September 25, 2002
Building a Terror-Proof Skyscraper: Experts Debate Feasibility, Options
Ground Zero, the 16-acre site of the destroyed World Trade Center buildings, is now bare brown earth, at a level seven stories down from the surrounding skyscrapers and streets. But it is a place of great hope, symbolized not only by the visit of President Bush on Sept....
