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Roadbuilding
Missouri DOT asks for pothole reports
With transition weather arriving (i.e., swings in temperatures from “warmish” to cold) the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is asking for motorists to report pothole locations on state highways. Fluctuations in temperature are “pothole problematic” because melting snow and ice settle into cracks and refreeze, which can expand cracks and even raise portions of roadways […]
March 5, 2015
Construction Equipment
Thief takes wheel loader for destructive joyride through Kansas City neighborhood
After stealing the machine from a Kansas City, Missouri, jobsite, a man went on a joyride through the surrounding neighborhood racking up thousands of dollars in property damage along the way. According to a report from KCTV 5, the loader belonged to Britz Wrecking and was taken from the site around 5 a.m. Tuesday. Along […]
February 26, 2015
Roadbuilding
Missouri approves budget-reduced road and bridge construction plan
The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has approved the Missouri Department of Transportation’s “325 System” plan, which will focus on maintenance rather than new construction for less than 25% of the states roads. The plan’s name comes from the figure MoDOT will have for construction in 2017—$325 million. Two years from now, the state will no longer […]
February 9, 2015
Safety
Construction worker crushed by crane near St. Louis
A worker near St. Louis was killed Monday in a crane accident. According to a report from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 31-year-old Justin D. Jokerst was working on a jobsite for a 500,000 square-foot addition to a commercial warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois. Authorities told the paper Jokerst was “working on a large Grove HL150…when he was crushed […]
January 12, 2015
Workforce
Worker hit in head by bullet as construction crew is targeted in drive-by shooting in St. Louis
A subcontractor on a parking lot project in St. Louis has pulled out of the job after a drive-by shooting targeted a construction crew earlier this week. According to a report from KMOV TV, four men fired about a dozen bullets from a car driving along 2nd Street targeting the construction workers. Thankfully no one was […]
January 2, 2015
Business
Government agency recommends updates to U.S. building codes after study of Joplin tornado
Information gathered after an extensive study of the costliest tornado on record could lead to new building and construction standards as early as 2016. The May 22, 2011 tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri was rated EF-5—the most powerful rating available from the National Weather Service—with winds between 200 and 205 miles per hour. The […]
June 12, 2014
Business
Joplin, Missouri has seen more than $1 billion in construction since devastating tornado
In the wake of the EF-5 tornado that devastated the community of Joplin, Missouri on the afternoon of May 22, 2011, it was hard for most to know where to begin in order to dig out of the destruction. The storm killed 158 people and changed the look and feel of the city forever. But […]
April 3, 2014
Business
Al Landes, president and COO of Missouri’s Herzog Contracting, named AGC of America president
Industry veteran Alan Landes has been named Associated General Contractors of America’s 2014 president. Landes was installed at the close of the AGC’s 95th annual convention last week in Las Vegas. Landes takes the reins of the organization after having served as senior vice president during 2013. He is also the former president of AGC […]
March 13, 2014
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