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Roadbuilding
Iowa DOT selling out tours of I-74 bridge project
IDOT is offering tours of the Interstate 74 bridge being built over the Mississippi River. More about the billion dollar bridge and tours on Equipment World.
September 11, 2018
Roadbuilding
Drone footage details IDOT progress on I-74 Mississippi River bridge
Check out the drone video that provides a close-up look at the new Interstate 74 bridge project over the Mississippi River.
June 26, 2018
Dealers
MH Equipment’s Evansville branch relocates, doubles in size
This move will double the size of its facilities in the city and gives the company additional capacity to grow its rental products. More on Equipment World.
May 30, 2018
Roadbuilding
Quick implosion downs old Savanna Bridge over Miss. River
Within seconds, a bridge connecting Illinois and Iowa over the Mississippi River came down in one giant blast. Watch videos of the March 9 demolition: The bridge was built in 1932 between Savanna, Illinois, and Sabula, Iowa, and at 20 feet wide was too narrow to handle wider vehicles that often overlapped the center line. […]
March 14, 2018
Roadbuilding
A 3D virtual reality view of the future I-74 Mississippi River Bridge
Though the I-74 Mississippi River Bridge between Iowa and Illinois is still three years from completion, people can now see what it will be like to actually drive across the future span. The Iowa Department of Transportation and Iowa State University have collaborated to create a virtual reality video that not only shows what it […]
March 1, 2018
Roadbuilding
Is your state red, yellow or green in new traffic-safety law ratings?
Six states and the District of Columbia earned good ratings and 13 states received poor ratings in a recent report gauging the number of traffic safety laws a state has enacted. The rest were deemed yellow, for caution. The 2018 Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws rates all the states and the District of Columbia […]
January 26, 2018
Roadbuilding
Fight to save and relocate Iowa’s historic Red Bridge continues
Jasper County Museum Executive Director Joe Otto wants to save the historic Red Bridge, the last truss bridge of its kind in Jasper County, Iowa, by having it relocated from Reasnor to Colfax at Quarry Springs Park. The bridge, which was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1998, was built in 1892 […]
January 2, 2018
Roadbuilding
Madison County (Iowa) receives grant to rebuild burned covered bridge
A grant has been awarded to rebuild the Madison County covered bridge that was destroyed by three teenage arsonists on April 15. According to the Des Moines Register, the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs told the Madison County Chamber of Commerce that it would receive $275,770 to rebuild the famous Cedar Covered Bridge in Winterset. […]
December 28, 2017
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Iowa DOT says I-74 bridge project on track, with parts ahead of schedule
During the first of many project updates, the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) told the Davenport City Council that all parts of the new Interstate 74 bridge project spanning the Mississippi River are on track or ahead of schedule, even though it doesn’t look like much is going on, the Quad-City Times reports. Most […]
December 5, 2017
Workforce
Hurricane recovery sends construction unemployment to record low
U.S. construction unemployment tied a record low in October, at 4.5 percent, with recovery from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and other disasters appearing to lead the jobs increase, according to Associated Builders and Contractors. The last time construction unemployment reached 4.5 percent in October was in 2006, the ABC says. The October 2017 rate was […]
December 4, 2017
Dealers
Volvo CE names three new Midwest dealers
Volvo Construction Equipment has added three new dealers in South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. TranSource Truck & Equipment Inc. is now an official Volvo dealer in South Dakota. In Iowa, Housby Heavy Equipment has become a Volvo dealer, and so has Wise Heavy Equipment in Nebraska. TranSource takes over in South Dakota TranSource, based in Sioux […]
December 1, 2017
Roadbuilding
Iowa gas-tax hike increases local road, bridge projects
Iowa’s 10-cent gas-tax increase, enacted in March 2015, has brought in an additional $515 million for road and bridge projects, the Quad City Times reports. The additional revenue has been coming to cities and counties and must be used for critical road and bridge projects. The state has also used about half of the money […]
November 17, 2017
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