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Safety
Worker killed in wall collapse on Wisconsin jobsite
A construction worker in Madison, Wisconsin, was killed Friday morning after a wall collapsed on top of him. According to a report from the Wisconsin State Journal, 58-year-old John Stoll was working at a construction site for a new apartment building when a wall collapsed on top of him and trapped him. Madison Fire Department officials told the […]
February 22, 2015
Roadbuilding
Wisconsin road building debt to increase under governor’s proposal
Gov. Scott Walker’s current $1.3 billion road construction borrowing proposal would up state borrowing for road projects to a point that almost 20 percent would be used to pay off highway loans, according to an Associated Press report. The report continues that this increase, to 20 cents of every dollar taken in, is a leap from the 7 […]
February 18, 2015
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
Construction Equipment
Brand new excavator driven off a 60-foot bluff and abandoned in icy Lake Michigan
A brand new 20-ton Komatsu excavator was discovered in Lake Michigan earlier this week near Milwaukee and police are trying to find the people responsible. According to a report from WISN TV, highway workers for the town of Oak Creek first spotted the excavator Monday while working on a bluff improvement project. The machine is […]
December 5, 2014
Business
Best of the Best: Here are the 12 finalists in our 2015 Contractor of the Year awards
Equipment World announces its 2015 finalists for the Contractor of the Year program, now in its 15th year. Each of the 12 finalists will be the guest of program sponsor Caterpillar during a event-filled weekend at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas, including an industry roundtable, awards banquet and attendance at the NASCAR Kobalt Tools […]
December 3, 2014
Construction Equipment
Man gets jail time for bungee jumping 140 feet from crane on Wisconsin construction site
A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for breaking into a Sheboygan construction site and then bungee jumping 138 feet from a crane. According to the Wisconsin Radio Network, 26-year-old Nicholas Propson climbed a fence to enter the jobsite and then scaled the crane before making the bungee jump—all in the name […]
November 26, 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
Construction Equipment
For some reason, thieves stole a 1,300-pound traffic gate from a construction site in Green Bay
We’re not sure what the going rate for traffic gates is on the black market, but it must be enough for someone to go through the trouble of lifting the 1,300-pound object from a construction site. The Green Bay Press-Gazette reports that a thief or group of thieves used a forklift to steal the 22-foot-long gate […]
October 10, 2014
Construction Equipment
Texas construction firms are buying the majority of construction equipment for earthmoving right now and it’s not even close
At 645 buyers, Texas stomped No. 2 Florida (317 buyers) in the number of financed construction equipment buyers engaged in earthmoving through August. The numbers are the result of an analysis of Equipment Data Associates data segmenting out companies* likely to be engaged in earthmoving and which bought new equipment in the past eight months. […]
September 8, 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
Safety
Wisconsin DOT launches 511 website, Twitter accounts to keep drivers informed on construction projects
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is taking a pro-active stance in keeping construction workers safe by doing what it can to ensure as many drivers as possible know about the various active construction sites around the state. Wisconsin 511 is a new website  that WisDOT hopes will be a “one-stop-shop” for travelers and commuters to […]
June 3, 2013
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