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Ohio DOT embarks on its largest construction season ever with 936 projects

The Ohio Department of Transportation has announced that the 2014 construction season will be its largest ever. ODOT says the season is made up of 936 projects statewide totaling $2.5 billion. Most of the funding will come from the Ohio Turnpike which will provide $1.5 billion over the next six years. This year’s season includes […]

April 21, 2014

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Transportation Sec. Foxx asks taxpayers to call Congress, demand long-term highway bill in road tour stop

Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx says a short-term solution won’t do this go-around for transportation funding, and he’s on the road this week pushing the Obama administration’s four-year $302 billion plan and making localities and citizens aware of the Highway Trust Fund’s nosedive. Foxx spoke in Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday in the eighth stop of his week-long Invest in […]

April 18, 2014

Business

DOT now predicts Highway Trust Fund will run out of money by end of August

In its latest update of the Highway Trust Fund Ticker, the U.S. Department of Transportation predicts the HTF to run out of money by the end of August. In the ticker update, the DOT notes that the Highway Account started fiscal year 2014 with about $1.6 billion, and $9.7 billion was transferred from the General Fund. […]

April 16, 2014

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Vehicles crashed into 45% of U.S. highway contractors’ work zones in 2013

Vehicles crashed into 45 percent of highway contractors’ work zones in the past year, according to the study results released Monday by the Associated General Contractors of America. AGC noted that, according to the study, work zone crashes are more likely to kill motor vehicle operators and passengers than construction workers. Tom Case, chair of AGC’s […]

April 11, 2014

Business

Construction expected to grow 8% this year with “groundhog”-like growth from nonresidential

Construction industry consultant FMI has released what it calls a “cautiously optimistic” outlook for the industry in 2014 in its latest quarterly report. The report predicts construction put-in-place to grow 8 percent this year and for the next few years. “Just like the spring, despite all odds and nasty economic weather, the nation needs to […]

March 27, 2014

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Bomag breaks ground on new North American HQ in South Carolina

Wednesday morning, Bomag Americas held a ground breaking ceremony for the future site of its new North American headquarters in Ridgeway, South Carolina. Company officials as well as South Carolina State and local officials were on hand for the event. The $18.2 million investment will create 121 new jobs for the state, South Carolina Gov. […]

February 5, 2014

Construction Equipment

Highway construction project halted in Iceland to avoid disturbing home and church of “hidden elves”

It’s not uncommon for construction and road projects to be halted due to environmental concerns. But elves? That’s a new one on us. In Iceland, environmentalists have forged a partnership with elf advocates to convince the Icelandic Road and Coastal Commission to abandon a highway construction project that would build a route from the Alftanes […]

December 23, 2013

Construction Equipment

BOMAG’s new BW141AD-5, BW151AD-5 tandem vibratory rollers reduce fuel, boost comfort

BOMAG’s new BW141AD-5 and BW151AD-5 tandem vibratory rollers, boast increased fuel efficiency and provide high VPM performance on asphalt compaction jobs such as commercial sites, parking lots and highways. The rollers’ frame design provides clear operator visibility, ensuring all-around views of the roller drums, asphalt mats and surrounding areas. The operator’s platform has a comfortable, […]

September 25, 2013

Business

CHARTS: Americans don’t pay enough for roads

A great report from The Atlantic Cities brings two charts into focus that do a great job of illustrating why American infrastructure is struggling. The charts were put together by Juan Gomez and José Manuel Vassallo for the Journal of Infrastructure Systems and compile data gathered between 2004 and 2009.   The first chart compares the United States’ […]

September 23, 2013

Construction Equipment

One percent of U.S. bridges are both fracture critical and structurally deficient

A recent report from the Associated Press analyzing the 607,380 bridges in the most recent federal National Bridge Inventory found that 7,795, 1.2 percent, of them are both structurally deficient and fracture critical. Structurally deficient bridges are those in need of repair or replacing because one of its components has advanced deterioration. Fracture critical bridges […]

September 18, 2013

Business

Resason Foundation proposes per-mile tolling of U.S. Interstate system as a “fair” source of infrastructure funding

According to a report from our sister site Better Roads, the Reason Foundation, citing of the Internet Highway System, has proposed tolling interstates and charging 3.5 cents per mile for cars and 14 cents per mile for trucks. The Interstate system makes up only 2.5 percent of all miles of highway in the U.S., but carries […]

September 18, 2013

Construction Equipment

Beautiful Bay Bridge time-lapse compresses 42k hours of construction into 4 mintues

Recently, construction was completed on the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The $6.4 billion bridge replaced a structure damaged in a 1989 earthquake and last week opened to traffic. Since then, EarthCam has released its time-lapse footage of all 42,000 hours of construction that took place on the bridge. The footage is […]

September 9, 2013