Tag: construction crews

Roadbuilding

“Topping out” ceremony celebrates completion of towers for new Port of Long Beach bridge

On December 5, state, local and federal officials joined construction crews for a “topping out” ceremony to celebrate the completion of the two 515-foot-tall towers for the new Port of Long Beach bridge, Port of Long Beach reports. The towers will be the centerpieces of California’s first cable-stayed bridge for vehicular traffic, which will be […]

December 13, 2017

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Mass. town officials assure public unfinished look of road just part of cold-in-place recycling

A recent paving project on Route 43 in Williamstown, Mass., might have residents wondering if it’s really finished, according to a report by iBerkshires.com. The cold-in-place recycling technique the city is using leaves the road looking unfinished for a little while. Town Manager Jason Hoch told the news agency that, “At the end of the project, it will look and […]

August 18, 2016

Roadbuilding

Drunk driving deaths down in Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has said deaths and injuries caused from drunken drivers have dropped dramatically over the past year. The number of fatalities in alcohol-related crashes in Wisconsin have dropped a whopping 47 percent from 348 in 2003 to 185 in 2013. The number of injuries fell 59 percent, from 6,445 in 2003 […]

August 21, 2014

Construction Equipment

Construction crew unearths rare, pre-Civil War sword in Arkansas

While doing excavation work for a new parking deck in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, a construction crew unearthed a sword that predates the Civil War. The Clark Construction crew turned the sword over to the Historic Arkansas Museum. In an interview with KATV, the museum’s chief curator, Swanee Burnett, said the museum is very excited […]

February 14, 2014

Construction Equipment

Construction crews unearth 6,200-year-old wood carving in Wales

“In archaeological circles, this is the is equivalent to winning the lottery.” That was the reaction from Richard Scott Jones, an archaeologist from Heritage Recording Services Wales, to Wales Online after a construction crew unearthed an ancient wood carving in the UK country. Jones called the carving “priceless” and said it dates back 6,270 years to […]

August 13, 2013

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Construction crew bulldozes 2,300-year-old Mayan ruin for road fill

The Nohmul complex stood for 2,300 years as a jewel of Belizean tourism and a beautiful example of the sheer talent and engineering skill of ancient construction crews. All of which makes it tragic that what time could not bring down, a modern construction crew did with complete disregard. According to the Associated Press, a […]

May 16, 2013

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Construction crew uncovers fossils of four new whale species

Construction crews on both coasts of the U.S. have been doing double duty as archaeologists as of late. First was a report of a crew in Charleston uncovering 27 American Revolution-era graves, and now comes a report from CBS that a road construction crew in Southern California has discovered the fossils of four new […]

February 22, 2013