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Roadbuilding

Nevada has a new website for tracking road construction projects across the state

Drivers in Nevada have a new resource to track road construction projects across the Silver State. The Nevada Department of Transportation just launched a new website at estip.nevadadot.com to give information on most of the major current and future transportation and transit construction projects in the state. “The projects listed in this website not only keep Nevadans safe […]

October 19, 2015

Workforce

Iowa high school shop class tasks students with designing, building a sim home

Students in a Sioux City, Iowa, shop class are learning more than just the traditional woodworking techniques most high schoolers are taught. According to a report from the Sioux City Journal, Students in the Intro to Construction, Construction I and Advanced Construction classes are building a modular simulation home from the ground up. The students […]

October 16, 2015

Construction Equipment

World’s first 3D-printed hotel suite is complete with a 3D-printed jacuzzi (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Though 3D printing has grown in popularity in recent years, it has yet to mature into a reliable construction method for everyday structures that is cost effective and easy to duplicate. But that isn’t stopping the owner of a hotel—and soon to be home developer—in the Philippines from going all-in on the technology. In a […]

October 15, 2015

Roadbuilding

Jacobs Engineering to provide construction inspection services on U.S. 75 project in Texas

Jacobs Engineering Group was recently awarded a contract from the Texas Department of Transportation to do construction engineering inspections for the U.S. 75/Interchange Improvements Project in Collin County. According to Jacobs, the company will provide TxDOT with construction, engineering and inspection services for the interchange improvements from the President George Bush Turnpike to Park Boulevard. […]

October 14, 2015

Roadbuilding

Construction worker killed during crack sealing on Michigan Interstate

One road worker was killed and another was in serious condition Sunday after a vehicle hit them while they performed crack sealing in Michigan. According to the Detroit Free Press, the two Michigan Department of Transportation contract workers were performing maintenance on Interstate 94 when a vehicle entered a construction lane where the workers were doing crack sealing. The […]

October 13, 2015

Workforce

Crane Industry Services brings custom training courses to West Georgia Technical College

Hoping to boost the number of skilled trade workers in Georgia, Crane Industry Services, an Atlanta-bassed crane operator and rigger training company, has partnered with West Georgia Technical College in order to bring a wide set of industrial skills training courses to students. CIS announced it will offer courses at the college, located in Waco, […]

October 12, 2015

Roadbuilding

Optimizing pavement levels of service

A pavement’s level of service is a measure that combines a pavement’s design criteria – such as freeway, primary arterial, collector and local street or road—with traffic conditions such as speed, travel time, freedom to maneuver, user comfort and convenience, traffic interruptions and safety. As pavement performance and durability impacts a highway’s level of service […]

October 9, 2015

Construction Equipment

Once the Marines work out the kinks, Google’s robot dog could be pretty useful in construction, too

If you don’t know Spot by name, then you’re probably familiar with this made-of-nothing-but-knees robot dog’s jerky (and slightly terrifying) movements from its numerous TV appearances over the last few years. In that time, Google-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics has developed four versions of the dog, including Spot, the latest. And now, according to a report […]

October 8, 2015

Safety

Wall collapse kills worker on unpermitted Chicago jobsite

A wall collapse that recently killed a worker on a Chicago jobsite has building and law enforcement officials looking for answers. According to a report from the Chicago Tribune, 46-year-old Daniel Miller was killed by injuries he sustained when a brick wall collapsed on top of him in the city’s Bronzeville neighborhood September 24. Miller was pulled from […]

October 8, 2015

Roadbuilding

Bayonne Bridge completion date pushed back 2 years

The completion of the $1.3 billion Bayonne Bridge “Raise the Roadway” project has been pushed back two years, with the renovated bridge now expected to be complete in 2019. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced October 1 that the delay in construction would mean the larger “post-Panamax” ships won’t be able to navigate into […]

October 7, 2015

Safety

Worker dies following accident on UNLV campus

A man who had just begun his construction career was killed on a Las Vegas jobsite recently. According to a report from the Las Vegas Sun, 27-year-old Joshua Meade was critically injured in a jobsite accident on the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus on the morning of September 23. Authorities have not released the specifics on […]

October 7, 2015

Roadbuilding

FDNY rescues construction worker who passed out on Kosciusko Bridge pillar

A construction worker at the Thaddeus Kosciusko Bridge in New York City passed out on top of a pillar nearly 100 feet in the air and had to be rescued by firefighters. According to Gothamist, the New York Fire Department brought out a 95-foot ladder to the Queens construction site September 29 to rescue the worker. Officials haven’t […]

October 6, 2015