Tag: Walsh Construction

Business

Chicago-based construction firm celebrating 120th year

The Walsh Group traces its beginnings back 120 years when Matthew Myles Walsh started a carpentry business out of his home in Chicago in 1898. Since then, the company has grown to more than 8,000 employees with 18 regional offices. It is a multi-billion-dollar business and ranked the 11th-largest construction firm in the United States, […]

January 18, 2018

Roadbuilding

East End Crossing opens to traffic, renamed as Lewis and Clark Bridge

The East End Crossing, the second half of the Ohio River Bridges project, has opened to traffic and has been renamed the Lewis and Clark Bridge. “Louisville and the surrounding region has needed these bridges for years,” says Deputy Federal Highway Administrator David Kim. “By reducing congestion, the East End Crossing and its massive partner […]

December 20, 2016

Roadbuilding

Indiana bridge builder among finalists for Carhartt’s Tough Crew Contest

The Cintas and Carhartt Tough Crew Contest has closed its nomination period for nominees, and a bridge builder and his Indiana crew are among the 12 finalists. Michael Knott and his team out of New Palestine, Indiana, were selected to have a chance at the prize of $2,500 in Carhartt merchandise. Voting can be done […]

June 4, 2015

Roadbuilding

First concrete pour made for deck of Ohio River Bridges Project Downtown Crossing

Walsh Construction crews have made the first concrete pour on the bridge deck of the Ohio River Bridges Project Downtown Crossing on the Indiana approach side of the river. The bridge will connect downtown Louisville and Jeffersonville, Indiana, and could be completed as early as January 2016. This pour is the first of nine total […]

May 14, 2015

Roadbuilding

Homeless forced to relocate due to bridge construction

Several homeless men who live beneath the 9th Street overpass in Jeffersonville, Indiana, have been forced to move. That’s because Walsh Construction has begun demolition as part of a new phase of Ohio River Bridges Project. This is not the first time the homeless have been forced to move. Last year around a dozen homeless living […]

September 1, 2014

Construction Equipment

Ford has been secretly testing prototype 2015 F-150s at construction sites and mines for 3 years (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

[imagebrowser id=85] “Drive it like you stole it and work it hard.” Those were the marching orders Denis Kanseir, the lead prototype engineer on Ford’s 2015 F-150’s, gave the drivers of six pickups distributed evenly among three different companies when they were handed the keys back in the latter half of 2011. Barrick Mining, Elko, […]

May 29, 2014

Roadbuilding

Seal or no Seal? That is the Question

The debate continues, but here are some tips to determine the most effective strategy for your agency, whether it’s seal or no seal, for pavement performance and life-cycle cost.

April 12, 2014

Business

How Louisville construction workers stand up to the wind, snow and frigid cold of the Ohio River Bridges project

There’s been a lot of talk about the Polar Vortex lately that’s giving a great deal of the country a pretty good feeling of what it’s like to live in an arctic climate. And yet, there are those who are still going out there each and every day and facing that cold like it’s no […]

January 6, 2014