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Roadbuilding

PennDOT completes Rapid Bridge Replacement project in Rush Township

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) reports that the Casanova Road bridge over Moshannon Creek in Rush Township reopened to traffic Nov. 23. The bridge was replaced as part of PennDOT’s Rapid Bridge Replacement Project aimed at reducing the number of structurally deficient bridges in the state. PennDOT still plans to apply a polyester polymer concrete (PPC) overlay to the bridge […]

December 5, 2016

Roadbuilding

Penn. county will use P3 to replace 33 structurally deficient bridges

Pennsylvania transportation officials will be watching Northampton County for the next few years as it begins a program to replace or repair more than a fourth of its bridges. The Morning Call reports that the county’s General Purpose Authority will award a Private-Public Partnership (P3) contract to replace 33 structurally deficient bridges in record time, while locking in the county’s costs. […]

September 16, 2016

Roadbuilding

PennDOT’s 4-year project to replace 7 bridges over I-676 on schedule

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s (PennDOT) $64.8 million project to rebuild bridges over Interstate 676 in Philadelphia is right on schedule, according to PennDOT’s Assistant Press Secretary Gene Blaum, Pennoni Associates’ designer Jim Pezzotti, and Urban Engineers’ construction manager Dave Palmer in speaking with the Philadelphia (Phillymag). PennDOT began the four-year, two-part project a little […]

August 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

Two construction workers hit by car near Westinghouse Bridge in Pittsburgh

Two construction workers were hit by a vehicle near the Westinghouse Bridge in Pittsburgh on Tuesday morning. CBS Pittsburgh reports that the accident happened on the Route 30 bridge just before 10 a.m. The construction workers were reviewing the area for a bridge replacement that is due to get underway next weekend, according to the Pennsylvania Department of […]

May 13, 2016

Roadbuilding

Tidy explosion drops Pittsburgh’s century-old Hulton Bridge into Allegheny River

A Pennsylvania bridge with more than a century of history was demolished Tuesday morning with more than 500 explosives above the Allegheny River. The Hulton Bridge connected the eastern Pittsburgh suburbs of Oakmont and Harmarville for 107 years, but the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that it was time to make way for the new bridge in part of a $66 million project. […]

January 27, 2016

Roadbuilding

Contractor cited for violations that led to partial Pennsylvania bridge collapse

A contractor in Clarion, Pennsylvania, is being held accountable for the partial collapse of a bridge earlier this year that injured two workers. According to Penn Live, Francis J. Palo Inc. has been cited for serious violations in the form of a flawed engineering process that didn’t make sure the bridge could withstand the heavy […]

January 5, 2016

Roadbuilding

2015 Better Roads Bridge Inventory: Ohio the bridge poster child; D.C. still has most SD/FO spans

No surprise: the top challenge facing state DOTs in improving structurally deficient (SD) and functionally obsolete (FO) bridges is funding, according to our 2015 Better Roads Bridge Inventory. And while maintenance was second on the list of challenges, this year staffing also mentioned as a top-level concern. The national average for percentage of SD/FO bridges […]

November 17, 2015

Roadbuilding

Man arrested for stealing road signs, rebar from Pennsylvania construction site

A Pennsylvania man is facing theft charges after he was caught with stolen road signs and rebar from a highway bridge project. Brian Pennington, 54, was allegedly seen by an officer at an area Salvation Army early Monday morning taking metal from a dumpster and putting it into his Chevrolet pickup truck. The officer approached the […]

August 12, 2015

Roadbuilding

PennDOT public-private partnership with PWKP to replace 58 bridges in 2015

Through a public-private partnership (P3) with Plenary Walsh Keystone Partners (PWKP), the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) will have 58 bridges replaced in 2015 as part of the Rapid Bridge Replacement Program. PWKP is scheduled to replace a total of 558 bridges throughout Pennsylvania over a 3-year period. They will design, construct and then maintain […]

June 24, 2015

Roadbuilding

Troopers go undercover from construction vehicles in speeding crackdown on Pennsylvania work zones

Troopers with the Pennsylvania State Police will take an embedded approach in protecting construction workers in highway work zones this summer. In partnership with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s (PTC) campaign “Operation Orange Squeeze,” troopers will be working inside construction vehicles on highway jobsites running radar. They’ll relay speeders to other other troopers waiting outside the work […]

April 21, 2015

Roadbuilding

Texas sees more traffic deaths in construction work zones than any other state

The National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse has released the latest data tally of deaths in motor vehicle traffic crashes in construction work zones, broken down by state. Of 32,719 traffic fatalities in 2013, 579 occurred in work zones. Texas topped the list, with 104 fatalities occurring in a work zone. The NWZSIC pulls the data from the […]

January 12, 2015

Roadbuilding

Texas leads U.S. equipment purchases in Q3, sales down 19 percent from 2013

If you believe everything is bigger in Texas, than it should come as no surprise that the state also needs the most road construction equipment. At 68 buyers during the third quarter of 2014, Texas construction companies financed the most road construction equipment in the United States. The numbers are according to an analysis of Equipment […]

November 21, 2014