Articles Tagged with ''Highway Construction''

US DOT Awards $759M in FASTLANE Grants

July 13, 2016

Eighteen highway and freight projects are in line to share $759 million in grants under a new U.S. Dept. of Transportation program that aims to help streamline the movement of vehicles and freight across a range of surface-transportation modes.

Transportation

Foxx Asks How Post-FAST Act Dollars Will Be Spent

As Interstate hits age 60, DOT chief calls for new look at surface transportation policy

Tom Ichniowski

June 29, 2016

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Finish the Interstate Transportation Infrastructure

Peter Ruane

June 15, 2016

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What would “Ike” do? June 29 marks the 60th anniversary of the day President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the law that authorized the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System and created the Highway Trust Fund to pay for it.

ENR Top 400: Building Contractors Enjoy Home Cooking

Demographics drive building construction

Gary J. Tulacz

May 19, 2016

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While the plunge in prices for oil, gas and metals has hurt the international market, the domestic market remains strong.

Jim Parsons

April 2, 2016

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Virginia continues its use of P3 project delivery to expand capacity on some of its busiest DC-area highways.

Crews Strive To Build $2.5-Billion of Roadwork in the Himalayas

Yogesh Vajpeyi

March 29, 2016

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Unique geology and active mountain chains add to the challenge of the Kashmir tunnel construction.

Jim Parsons

March 23, 2016

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The North Carolina Dept. of Transportation (NCDOT) gradually is restarting four road projects idled in late January, when Alpena, Mich.-based DeVere Construction Co. withdrew from the jobs in an apparent payment dispute with the agency.

States to Tap $2B From Inactive Earmarked Projects

Tom Ichniowski

March 16, 2016

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FY 2016 appropriations law lets DOTs redeploy funds unspent on pre-2006 highway earmarks on new projects in same areas.

Fix Transportation Funding for the Long Run

Gregory A. Kelly

March 2, 2016

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Signed into law in December, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act finally brings some predictability to funding surface transportation infrastructure, plus a modest increase in funding.

Construction Technology

Bring Back the Two-Way Radio

The president of a family-owned 73-year-old construction firm wants to use two-way radios on jobsites again.

David M. Oneglia

December 23, 2015

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Before personal computers, cell phones, emails and texts, we used two-way radios for construction communications. Today’s technology is appropriate for personal communication, and I don’t want to denigrate its efficiency, but for construction, today’s tools don’t have anything like the powerful impact of two-way radios.

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Articles Tagged with ''Highway Construction''

US DOT Awards $759M in FASTLANE Grants

Foxx Asks How Post-FAST Act Dollars Will Be Spent

Finish the Interstate Transportation Infrastructure

ENR Top 400: Building Contractors Enjoy Home Cooking

HOT Lane Extensions Coming to Northern Va.

Crews Strive To Build $2.5-Billion of Roadwork in the Himalayas

North Carolina Restarts Stalled Devere Construction Projects

States to Tap $2B From Inactive Earmarked Projects

Fix Transportation Funding for the Long Run

Bring Back the Two-Way Radio

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