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Roadbuilding

Worker has leg amputated following freak accident

A worker who slipped and fell into an auger at a highway construction site in November was forced to have his leg amputated and remained in the hospital, according to the latest update from Patch. The accident occurred on Highway 4 in Antioch, California. Emergency crews were called to the site to help the worker […]

December 29, 2014

Roadbuilding

AASHTO 2015 Bottom Line Report: $120 billion annual road investment needed to keep up with demand

Next year will be a critical year for America’s surface transportation infrastructure, says a just released report from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. In addition to getting highway legislation beyond the short-term mindset (a current extension ends in May), an annual investment of $120 billion for highways and bridges between 2015 […]

December 23, 2014

Roadbuilding

Nebraska expects big increase in highway projects next year

If you live Nebraska, prepare for an increase in highway construction next year. During 2014, a total of 107 highway improvement projects took place. That number is expected to increase by 40 percent during 2015, with at least 150 planned projects. The increase in highway projects for 2015 was announced by Governor Dave Heineman and […]

December 4, 2014

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

Roadbuilding

How to stay safe in extremely cold winter weather

Thankfully the hot weather that goes along with summer is finally over! Unfortunately, that means winter weather is rapidly approaching, and cold stress should be taken every bit as seriously as heat exhaustion. The bad news: highway and bridge construction workers don’t typically get “snow days,” or a day off because it’s a wee bit chilly outside. […]

November 5, 2014

Roadbuilding

Highway and bridge construction starts on the rise in September

New construction starts rose 10 percent in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $604.1 billion, according to McGraw Hill Construction. The increase followed an up-and-down pattern during the previous two months, and brought activity to its highest level so far during 2014. Nonbuilding construction saw a 38 percent increase at $162.9 billion with the electric […]

October 20, 2014

Business

With Prop 1, Texas may break the logjam, spur innovation in highway funding

In November, Texans will go to the polls and vote on Proposition 1, which, in a nutshell, proposes to take half the money from the state’s gas and oil revenues and direct it toward highway construction and maintenance. Everything in this bill is sure to please the construction industry. And everything I’ve read over the […]

October 14, 2014

Roadbuilding

Building a better highway construction jobsite

The brave men and women who don their steel-toed boots and neon green safety T-shirts to build the nation’s highways and byways put their lives on the line every day to create the road systems that motorists may take for granted. It’s not easy work when all of the variables of working in such a […]

October 9, 2014

Roadbuilding

Are flying robots the future of road construction?

Centuries ago some people thought the world would be taken over by robots and flying cars by now. They may not have been 100 percent correct, but they weren’t completely wrong either. When it comes to highway and bridge construction, flying robots may start playing huge roles. Javier Irizarry, associate professor at Georgia Tech’s School […]

September 30, 2014

Roadbuilding

Highway and bridge construction on the rise in August

New construction starts are back to the normal pace reported during the first seven months of the year. Construction dropped nine percent in August after recording a boost in energy-related manufacturing projects in July. However, the drop did not seem to have a negative impact on highway and bridge construction. According to McGraw Hill Construction, a division […]

September 23, 2014

Roadbuilding

Driver hops out of truck and attacks construction worker

As if workers in road work zones didn’t have enough to worry about between speeding cars and inattentive drivers, the driver of a tanker truck was recently arrested for allegedly attacking a construction worker near Fairbanks, Alaska. According to a report from NewsMiner.com, 26-year-old truck driver Alan Osborn Baxter pulled up to the work zone, left […]

September 22, 2014

Business

Road builders, construction groups oppose bill to lower gas tax, surrender federal highway authority to states

Construction groups and transportation interests have written Congress to express opposition to the so-called “devolution” of the federal highway program and the proposed Transportation Empowerment Act. The bill, introduced in the House and Senate last fall, transfers almost all authority over federal highway and transit programs to the states over a five-year period. It would […]

September 18, 2014