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Roadbuilding
LBJ Express highway in Dallas, largest Texas P3, opens to public 3 months ahead of schedule
The largest public-private partnership (P3) in Texas, the approximately $2.6 billion LBJ Express highway reconstruction project, has opened to the public three months ahead of schedule. The project began in 2011 and involved reconstruction off all the main and expanded frontage lanes of Interstate 635 in the north Dallas region, stretching from Luna Road to […]
September 14, 2015
Roadbuilding
August Texas Proposition 1 project approvals total $304 million for 22 projects
The Texas Transportation Commission has approved 22 projects valued at roughly $304 million as part of the sixth round of the state’s Proposition 1 transportation funding program. This brings the total number of projects approved to 115 out of the 200 planned. The fifth round included 17 projects at a value of $401.5 million. Proposition […]
September 3, 2015
Roadbuilding
Worker killed in equipment accident on Texas highway paving job
A construction worker inside a Texas work zone was killed last week in an accident involving heavy equipment at the jobsite. According to a report from KSAT TV, 66-year-old Salvador Guillen was killed during a repaving job August 10 on FM 541 near FM 2505, west of Poth. KSAT spoke with both Guillen’s employer, New Braunfels-based contractor […]
August 17, 2015
Workforce
Construction worker dies from heat stroke in Texas
A worker on a residential construction site near Dallas died last month due to extreme temperatures being felt across Texas. According to a report from NBC Dallas-Fort Worth, the cause of 25-year-old Roendy Granillo’s death was confirmed on Friday by the Collin County Medical Examiner as heat stroke. Granillo was working on a home in Melissa […]
August 11, 2015
Roadbuilding
Worker shortage delays major highway expansion project in Austin
Austin is the latest city in the U.S where contractors are concerned over the shortage of skilled construction workers. According to a report from KVUE, construction crews are adding one toll lane in each direction to the congested 11-mile stretch of Texas State Highway Loop 1 (the MoPac) from Parmer Lane to Cesar Chavez Street. “It’s a […]
July 15, 2015
Construction Equipment
Train crashes into stuck truck hauling a track loader in Texas
The driver of a tractor trailer with a track loader in haul escaped a close call in Texas recently when his rig got stuck on a railroad crossing and was hit by a train. According to a report from the Odessa American, the rig became stuck on a crossing off Interstate 20 in Ector County around 9 […]
July 9, 2015
Safety
Trench collapse kills worker on gas station project in Texas
A worker on a crew building a new location for the Allsups chain of gas stations and convenience stores was killed in a trench collapse last week. According to a report from KFDA TV, 63-year-old Juan Castaneda was killed June 30 while installing fuel tanks in Fritch, Texas. The station reports the trench’s dirt walls […]
July 8, 2015
Roadbuilding
New $4.3 billion plan for Interstate 35 in Austin would add lanes
Texas officials announced on June 15 a new 10-year, $4.3 billion plan to ease congestion on Interstate 35 in Austin. The conceptual plan would add new lanes along the upper decks of the interstate between Airport Boulevard and Martin Luther King Boulevard through central Austin, according to KXAN in Austin. “The need to address I-35 […]
June 17, 2015
Roadbuilding
Texas lawmakers cross the aisle on plan to raise the state’s road budget by $3 billion
The Texas House of Representatives Transportation chairman and his counterpart in the state’s Senate have reached a deal to inject the transportation budget with $3 billion more each year. The Dallas Morning News reports Rep. Joe Picket (D-El Paso) and Sen. Robert Nichols (R-Jacksonville) announced May 26 that they’d agreed upon a plan to fund […]
May 27, 2015
Safety
Worker killed by fall from Dallas apartment complex
Details are scarce surrounding the death of a construction worker in Dallas last week. According to a report from CBS Dallas-Fort Worth, a worker at an apartment complex still under construction fell to his death Thursday morning. Emergency workers told the site that the worker fell from “a higher floor of the four-story Maple District […]
May 20, 2015
Roadbuilding
Texas approves $168 million in Proposition 1 road projects
The Texas Transportation Commission (TTC) has approved roughly $168 million for 23 Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) road projects as part of the state’s Proposition 1 funding program. Last year Texas voters approved Proposition 1, a program that has $1.74 billion available for transportation projects in 2015. In late March, the TTC approved nine projects […]
May 5, 2015
Construction Equipment
Crane collapses atop Dallas museum, many confuse it for an art installation
The Dallas Museum of Art has released surveillance video of a crane collapse that occurred there earlier this month and subsequently was mistaken as a piece of art itself. According to a report from the Dallas Morning News, the collapse occurred on April 3, falling onto the museum’s roof and narrowly missing a more than 40-year-old red […]
April 20, 2015
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