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Business
Final Word
Capitalism as an infrastructure solution By Kirk Landers  As our dysfunctional governing bodies slither away from the challenge of passing a meaningful federal highway bill, small-government advocates and growing numbers of political moderates dream warm, fuzzy dreams about privatizing away our infrastructure problems. And why not? Indiana pocketed $3.8 billion in the last decade […]
May 25, 2012
Business
Survivor Stories
The heel-print of the Great Recession continues to reverberate throughout the industry. So how are contractors hanging on? We’ll share a number of their stories in this and upcoming issues, with the hope they offer encouragement… and perhaps an idea you can use.  Tough cost cutting, redirection helps North Carolina firm stay afloat […]
May 24, 2012
Maintenance
Final Word
Finding opportunity in changing markets It started as a faint noise on the horizon in the mid-Eighties, a conversation among a few cerebral industry watchers: The Mega Project Era was over. The last miles of the main Interstate Highway system were being built, environmental concerns were shutting down nuclear power plant construction, and the American […]
December 8, 2011
Business
On Record
Surviving By Marcia Gruver Doyle It’s been a long dry spell. I recently did a state-of-the-industry presentation and apologized for saying many of the same things I said to this audience in 2010: It’s flat out there, and its bound to be that way for awhile. The statistics aren’t encouraging. More than 2.2 million construction […]
October 5, 2011
Roadbuilding
Highway Contractor
Pavement preservation expert Larry Galehouse talks about tools and strategies that make sense for surviving the Great Recession.
October 4, 2011
Roadbuilding
Highway Contractor
How some city road managers cope with diminishing budgets.
July 7, 2011
Roadbuilding
Special Report: EQUIPMENT’S BRAVE NEW WORLD
Where we are, how we got here and what happens next. by Kirk Landers, editor emeritus, Better Roads  A recovery is coming for the U.S. construction industry. It will be long and slow. It will be different than other recoveries. And it will require planning. Even in the early stages, it is likely to […]
March 4, 2011
Roadbuilding
Think Big
FHWA head sees a year of thinking big, dreaming big and change.
January 1, 2011
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