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Roadbuilding

TxDOT breaks ground on I-69/I-610 West Loop Interchange

On November 28 the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) held a groundbreaking ceremony for reconstruction of the I-69/I-610 West Loop Interchange project, The Houston Chronicle reports. In attendance were Texas Transportation Chairman J. Bruce Bugg, Jr.; U.S. Congressman John Culberson; Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner; State Rep. Sarah Davis; TxDOT Houston District Engineer Quincy Allen; and other […]

December 7, 2017

Roadbuilding

How crews fixed a Houston tollway’s massive sinkhole in Harvey’s wake

Joe Harper had just hit the road to work September 7 when his mobile phone went off at 6:30 a.m. The Harris County Toll Road Authority wanted to know if he could immediately mobilize enough workers and equipment to fix a giant sinkhole at the Sam Houston Tollway in Houston. Tropical Storm Harvey’s rains had […]

October 17, 2017

Roadbuilding

Mobile dams used to open flooded roads in Texas after Harvey

The Texas Department of Transportation has high praise for technology it used to stem road flooding from Hurricane Harvey. TxDOT says the AquaDam, a mobile dam that can be installed to block up to 30 inches of floodwater, kept some flood victims from being cut off from aid. The mobile dam is basically a large […]

October 12, 2017

Roadbuilding

Cemex providing concrete for Texas Harvey repairs

Cemex USA has been busy helping Texas recover from Hurricane Harvey by assisting its employees and the community with their relief efforts, as well as helping with emergency infrastructure repairs and support. Emergency repairs were needed after floodwaters severely damaged Beltway 8 near Cemex’s headquarters, and the company stepped up, supplying approximately 750 yards of […]

October 10, 2017

Business

Subcontractors of all experience levels needed for work in Irma, Harvey disaster areas

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have left a wake of demolished homes and strewn debris, and also high demand for subcontractors who can load, haul and dump large amounts of material. Pay rates for subcontractors are also starting to rise, sometimes leading to bidding wars between local governments as communities become more desperate for relief. That […]

September 26, 2017

Roadbuilding

All tollways in Houston area now reopened following Harvey

Tolls are now being collected again in Harris County, Texas, on roads that had flooded from Hurricane Harvey. That includes the southbound lanes of the West Sam Houston Tollway/Beltway 8 in Houston, which required extensive repairs. The section of the tollway was the last of the Harris County Toll Authority’s toll roads to reopen. Traffic […]

September 19, 2017

Roadbuilding

Section of Houston tollway damaged by Harvey still closed

The northbound lanes of a main section of the West Sam Houston Tollway/Beltway 8, which were flooded by Tropical Storm Harvey, were reopened Sept. 7 after pumping out standing water, but the southbound lanes likely won’t open until the middle of this week, according to the Harris County Toll Road Authority in Houston. The authority […]

September 11, 2017

Dealers

South Texas construction equipment dealers reeling from Harvey’s wrath

Heavy equipment dealers in southern Texas are working to get back up and running following Hurricane Harvey’s devastating flooding, but are contending with storm damage, flooded roads, and loss of power and phone service, among other obstacles. All eight branches of Hlavinka Equipment Company, which sells, rents and services Kubota, JCB, Case-IH and Terex brands, […]

September 1, 2017

Roadbuilding

Assessing Harvey’s damage to Texas infrastructure a difficult task

Officials say damage by Hurricane Harvey in southeast Texas is extensive…and ongoing, Engineering News-Record reports. Infrastructure assessments have been difficult, however, because almost all transportation networks remain completely shut down. All flights have been suspended in the Houston area, all port operations have ceased at Houston and Galveston, the Federal Railroad Administration declared a state of […]

August 31, 2017

Roadbuilding

Despite Harvey’s Texas exit, over 400 roads still flooded in the state

Harvey has left Texas, but more than 400 roads covering a large portion of southeastern Texas remain closed due to flooding, the Texas Department of Transportation reported August 31. The number of closed roads is down from August 30 when more than 500 roads were reported as flooded. The affected area extends north from Corpus […]

August 31, 2017

Roadbuilding

Project engineer struck and killed by dump truck after just 2 days on the job

A 26-year-old project engineer in Texas was only on the job for two days before he was hit and killed by a dump truck Tuesday. KHOU reported that the man had recently started working with OHL Construction as an engineer. The man was walking back from lunch with some of his fellow engineers at about 12:30 p.m. […]

January 29, 2016

Workforce

Houston construction crew robbed at gunpoint twice in one week

A construction crew in Houston recently told KHOU TV that they “feared for their lives,” after being robbed at gunpoint on two separate occasions within the span of one week. The first took place Nov. 22 when Jose Alfredo Gonzalez and several other workers were robbed by four men who “ran out of a grassy area” near […]

January 7, 2016