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Safety
Milwaukee transforms the hard hat into a working tool and accessory system
Milwaukee Tools is getting into the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) in a big way and this summer they showed us a new hardhat design you’re going to want to check out. The Milwaukee hard hats will protect your brainpan like any other hard hat, but they have designed them with six accessory slots/mounting points […]
August 8, 2019
Construction Equipment
Komatsu Mining expands Milwaukee presence with South Harbor Campus
Komatsu Mining says it will remain in the Milwaukee area, & will build a $285 million, 2.5-million-square-foot South Harbor Campus, located in the city's Harbor District.
September 28, 2018
Gear
Milwaukee’s Rocket M18 LED Tower Light/Charger changed my mind about work lights
I hate work lights. Exploding incandescent clamp lights. High temperature halogens poised on top of rickety tripods just waiting for a nudge to topple over and burst into flames. Hated all of them. Always have. For three decades. That is, until I tried the cordless Milwaukee Rocket M18 LED Tower Light/Charger. Stable and solid The […]
May 25, 2017
Roadbuilding
Milwaukee County DOT receives first Safe and Sustainable Snowfighting Award
The Salt Institute presented a Safe and Sustainable Snowfighting Award to Milwaukee County’s Department of Transportation Highway Division for excellence in environmental consciousness and effective management in the storage of winter road salt, CBS 58 WDJT-Milwaukee reports. This is the agency’s first time receiving the award and it joined 86 other transportation facilities in the […]
February 16, 2017
Roadbuilding
Wisconsin DOT pays out $108.2 million to local government transportation projects
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) has awarded roughly $108.2 million for General Transportation Aids, Connecting Highway Aids and Expressway Policing Aids to local governments in its most recent round of payouts. General Transportation Aids received the bulk of the funds with $104,905,193. These funds are used for the construction, maintenance and operation of local […]
October 13, 2015
Roadbuilding
Portion of iconic highway in Wisconsin to become an Interstate
A portion of an iconic highway that stretches from Miami to the northernmost tip of Upper Michigan will become an Interstate in 2015. Highway 41, one of Wisconsin’s main north-south highways, connecting Milwaukee to the Fox River Valley and Green Bay will officially be designated as an Interstate in September 2015, The Chippewa Herald reports. The stretch […]
December 29, 2014
Safety
Wisconsin DOT first in U.S. to test reflective orange lane paint for making work zones more visible to drivers
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has announced that it will be the first DOT in the United States to test a reflective orange paint in an attempt to make construction work zones more visible to drivers passing by. WisDOT has applied the paint to three sections of pavement on Interstate 94, to the east and […]
December 9, 2014
Roadbuilding
Wisconsin approves $670 million worth of repairs
The Wisconsin Transportation Panel has approved three major highway repair projects that will total approximately $670 million. Gov. Scott Walker, who chairs the 15-member Transportation Projects Commission of lawmakers and citizens, said the approved projects were needed for the safety of the state’s transportation infrastructure. “The major highway projects being recommended for construction have undergone […]
December 2, 2014
Roadbuilding
Most commuters happy with new beltline signs
So far most drivers in Madison, Wisconsin, have been happy with the Department of Transportation’s new beltline signs. The DOT says the signs estimate travel times using detectors that track bluetooth signals coming from cars and/or cell phones. That information is then fired off to DOT computers in Milwaukee. “The detector calculates the time it […]
October 27, 2014
Workforce
Northwestern Mutual sets out to hire 1,000 construction workers in Milwaukee
Northwestern Mutual is in the middle of a substantial construction project in downtown Milwaukee and the company is in need of a lot of hands to get it done. On Monday, the company hosted a job fair in Milwaukee in search of 1,000 construction workers to build its $450 million tower, according to a report […]
October 21, 2014
Business
Wisconsin contractors are having a hard time making quality hires as demand grows
Like their peers across the country, Wisconsin contractors are preparing for a sizable increase in work in 2014. According to Associated General Contractors of America chief economist Ken Simonson, construction spending in the U.S. is expected to rise 10 percent by the end of this year. And while more work is definitely good news, those […]
March 14, 2014
Workforce
Milwaukee County dedicates $400,000 to construction, trades training
Using money from real estate sales, Milwaukee County recently provided a lot of help in the funding of a training program for construction work and other trades. According to a report from the Milwaukee Business Journal, the county recently received a large check from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Real Estate Foundation for its purchase of […]
February 20, 2014
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