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Construction Equipment

Construction worker punches bank robber into a jail cell

If it wasn’t bad enough that alleged bank robber Frazer Piccolo was literally caught red-handed, his capture was assisted by a construction worker with a mean right hook. According to a report from KPTV in Portland, Oregon, the 44-year-old Piccolo entered the Bank of the West on Division St., at 10:45 a.m. Monday before passing […]

August 21, 2013

Technology

Boise State construction management students required to use iPads as tablets become more commonplace on jobsites

Casey Cline, a professor at Boise State University who teaches construction management, calls iPads “essential” to “the new way” of managing projects on the jobsite these days. That’s why, according to a report from the Associated Press, he’s requiring freshman students in his class to use iPads. Before they graduate, Cline wants his students to know […]

August 6, 2013

Roadbuilding

Crews complete Oregon’s Whilamut Passage Bridge four months early

[Correction: This article originally reported that the new bridges would “double highway capacity by accommodating three lanes of traffic with shoulders on each bridge.” However, the bridges will actually carry two lanes of traffic in each direction–the same as the old bridges. The incorrect statement has been removed.] Crews completed construction last week of the […]

July 29, 2013

Business

Oregon contractors, state leaders host pre-apprenticeship programs to introduce teens to construction

Expecting a sustained recovery in demand and the need to hire lots of young workers in the next few years, contractors in Oregon are working to drum up interest in the construction industry among teens and are reporting positive results. The state’s construction businesses are expected to hire 30,000 workers by 2020—45 percent of which […]

July 23, 2013

Roadbuilding

VMT is here!

Oregon replaces state gas tax with “pay per-mile road usage charge”

July 15, 2013

Roadbuilding

Portland engineers use dish soap to move century-old bridge

Engineers in Portland, Oregon, had to get creative when they needed to replace the Sellwood Bridge. Cracks had begun to appear in the support beams of the 100-year-old bridge, and, as our sister site, Equipment World, reported, the structure’s unique design forced the engineers to move the bridge in one whole 1,100-foot piece. The engineers […]

July 10, 2013

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How to move a bridge with dish soap

When cracks began to form in the Sellwood Bridge’s supports, engineers in Portland, Oregon were faced with an extreme challenge when it came to replacing the nearly century-old bridge: they had to move the whole thing at once. According to Popular Mechanics, the engineers wanted to slide the existing bridge over a bit to create […]

July 3, 2013

Roadbuilding

OTREC researchers explore e-bike perceptions

Two Portland state researchers are working on ways to encourage more people to travel on bicycles, according to a report from the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC). Researchers Jennifer Dill and John MacArthur are exploring people’s perceptions–particularly those of women, older adults and people with physical limitations–of electric-assist bikes, more commonly known as […]

June 4, 2013

Roadbuilding

Doosan Portable Power names Contractor’s Equipment Supply as dealer

Doosan Portable Power has named Contractor’s Equipment Supply (CESCO) as an authorized dealer. Headquartered in Meridian, Idaho, CESCO has three locations throughout Idaho–Meridian, McCall and Jerome–and serves customers in southern Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon. The company serves several markets, including residential and commercial building, state and local municipalities, underground site development and more. CESCO […]

May 15, 2013

Roadbuilding

The Man Who Slides Bridges

Any story is valuable if it can show us how to do our work better. And especially when that work is big, massively expensive, part of our daily lives and paid for by tax dollars. For example, an old bridge that serves as a temporary route while the new bridge is being built. Better Roads […]

April 8, 2013

Roadbuilding

The fuel tax heist: Robbing Peter Highway to pay Paul Non-Highway

Here comes another one. A state politician – this time it’s Oregon Democratic Representative Jules Bailey – who sees money raised by fuel taxes as a sort of cookie jar he can raid to buy stuff he likes. But the jar the money goes into is a Highway Trust Fund, and the money in that […]

April 4, 2013

Business

Doosan Portable Power names Pacific Power Products mobile generator dealer

Doosan Portable Power has named Pacific Power Products an authorized dealer for mobile generators. The company, headquartered in Ridgefield, Washington, will distribute Doosan Portable Power products to customers throughout Washington and Oregon from branches in Kent and Spokane, Washington, and Coburg, Redmond and Medford, Oregon. For more information, visit doosanportablepower.com or pacificdda.com.

January 28, 2013