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HNTB’S Yarossi named chairman of ARTBA Foundation

Paul Yarossi, executive vice president of HNTB, has been named chairman of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF) Board of Trustees. Yarossi, who has worked at HNTB since 1973, served as ARTBA chairman in 2011 and as vice chair of ARTBA-TDF since 2014. He has also served ARTBA as senior […]

May 22, 2017

Roadbuilding

ARTBA presents Helping Hand Awards to Gardner Asphalt Supply, Florida Transportation Builders’ Association members

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation (ARTBA) Development Foundation presented its first place 2017 Helping Hand Award to Gardner Asphalt Supply and Florida Transportation Builders’ Association member companies. The awards, presented during the ARTBA Foundation awards lunch in Washington, D.C., May 17, recognize “organizations within the transportation industry that have exceptional strategic philanthropic […]

May 18, 2017

Roadbuilding

NAPA, ARTBA to partner on online asphalt paving and milling safety training

The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) and the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) are teaming up to create and implement an online asphalt paving and milling safety training program. This announcement follows NAPA’s endorsement of ARTBA’s Safety Certification for Transportation Project Professionals (SCTPP) started last year. The development process will involve creating modules […]

May 16, 2017

Roadbuilding

2017 Infrastructure Week kicks off with ‘Time To Build’ theme

The 2017 Infrastructure Week kicked off May 15 in Washington, D.C., with an event featuring business and association leaders as well as Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao discussing the new technologies, projects and infrastructure in the 21st century. Chao gave the keynote address at the launch and focused on the successful reopening of the I-85 bridges […]

May 16, 2017

Roadbuilding

ARTBA report shows no negative impact on lawmakers who support increased gas taxes

A report by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) Transportation Investment Advocacy Center (TIAC) shows that legislators who support increased gas taxes are not negatively impacted by voters. TIAC reviewed more than 2,500 state legislators in 16 states in the report, and found that 91 percent of those supporting legislation to raise state […]

May 1, 2017

Roadbuilding

ARTBA Labor Report: February highway and bridge contractor employment grew 8.2% in February

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) says workers employed by highway, street and bridge contractors grew 8.2 percent in February compared to the same month in 2016, representing a net increase of roughly 20,300 workers. Total workers employed in this segment reached 267,400, the highest mark for February since 2008. ARTBA points out, […]

April 12, 2017

Roadbuilding

ARTBA: Kansas infrastructure investment would have $600 million economic impact

A new report from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) indicates an annual transportation investment increase of $264 million for Kansas could have a nearly $600 million economic impact on the state. The Kansas Contractors Association commissioned the association to conduct the study. ARTBA chief economist Alison Premo Black, who conducted the research, recently […]

April 3, 2017

Roadbuilding

ARTBA graduates 14 transportation construction pros in second round of safety certification program

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation announces 14 additional transportation construction professionals have finished its Safety Certification for Transportation Project Professionals (SCTPP) program. Fifty-five were in the SCTPP “inaugural class” that finished in January. ARTBA launched the program in fall 2016 as a means of creating a safety benchmark for “future civil engineering and […]

March 20, 2017

Roadbuilding

ARTBA ranks Nevada bridges #1 in the nation

The American Road and Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) recently-released analysis of bridges in the United States shows that only 1.6 percent of Nevada’s approximately 2,000 public bridges are considered structurally deficient, once again making Nevada the top ranking state in the nation, the Carson Valley Times reports. The Nevada Department of Transportation’s (NDOT) bridge inspection and rehabilitation program has […]

March 1, 2017

Roadbuilding

PennDOT plans to replace 20 structurally deficient bridges in Lancaster County in 2017

A report released by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) on Feb. 15 lists Pennsylvania as second among the states with structurally deficient bridges. In effort to bring that number down, PennDOT is planning to replace 20 bridges in Lancaster County in 2017 at an average cost of $1.59 million apiece, Lancaster Online reports. “We’ve been chipping away […]

February 28, 2017

Roadbuilding

ARTBA: Number of U.S. structurally deficient bridges drops to 55,710

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) analysis of the 2016 National Bridge Inventory from the Federal Highway Administration shows the number of structurally deficient bridges in the U.S. has dropped to 55,710 from 58,500 shown in the previous report. Even though the figure has dropped, this still represents 1,276 miles of structurally deficient […]

February 16, 2017

Roadbuilding

ARTBA safety certification program inaugural class has 55 transportation construction professionals

The “inaugural class” of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) Safety Certification for Transportation Project Professionals (SCTPP) includes 55 transportation construction professionals from 11 states. ARTBA launched the program in fall 2016 as a means of creating a safety benchmark for “future civil engineering and construction management program graduates who are interested in […]

January 26, 2017