Articles Tagged with ''North Carolina''

Widening a highway is more difficult than creating a greenfield one, according to Mike Patton, resident engineer for the North Carolina Dept. of Transportation’s (NCDOT) Division 14, which covers the state’s westernmost and mountainous counties.

North Carolina Dept. of Transportation mobilized crews and a detour system already in place for a highway construction project to get the busy interstate reopened. 

Toyota expects to a 7-million-sq-ft facility to produce electric vehicles at its Liberty, N.C., plant, currently under construction.

A joint venture of Flatiron Constructors and Blythe Development Co. successfully took on the massive $183-million Winston-Salem Northern Beltway, a design-build highway project that will loop around the northern part of Winston-Salem.

The North Carolina Dept. of Labor issued fines to two Charlotte-based companies for safety violations after three workers fell to their deaths and two others were injured in January.

Dodge offers data on projected 2023 construction starts in the Raleigh area.

Transportation agencies tackle the state’s largest infrastructure investment to relieve traffic as the region’s population grows.

Toyota's under-construction battery plant in North Carolina is now an almost $6B project with new funds, while Ford BlueOval plants in Tennessee and Kentucky are boosted by a $9.2-billion U.S. Energy Dept. conditional loan, its largest ever single investment.

The team, which includes North Carolina-based Right Build and Varnedoe Construction, will construct an 8,000-space parking expansion and roadway improvements at the airport. 

A construction worker was killed in the early morning hours of May 3 when a vehicle crashed into a work zone on Interstate 40 in Wake County, North Carolina.