Related Links: Funding for Austin�s Manor Expressway Speeds Project Ahead Transportation Commission Selects Private Firm for Agency Review Fort Worth Street Widening, Improvement Project Under Way Plano�s Eastbound Parker Road Bridge at U.S. 75 Completed Stimulus Projects Started on Longview Roads The Woodall Rodgers Extension project on IH-35E in Dallas recently required multi-lane, and intermittent, full-road closures on I-35E near downtown to allow crews to set and weld bridge beams. The $47.5-million project to extend Woodall Rodgers Freeway from I-35E to Beckley Avenue at Singleton Boulevard will also feature the $69.7-million Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge over the Trinity River. The

Photo Courtesy CTRMA. Austin�s Manor Expressway will move forward with new funding. The project will transform the U.S. 290 corridor west of the city of Manor into a 6.2-mi tollway that will intersect with SH 130. Related Links: Transportation Commission Selects Private Firm for Agency Review Fort Worth Street Widening, Improvement Project Under Way Bridge Beams Go Up in Woodall Rodgers Extension Project in Dallas Plano�s Eastbound Parker Road Bridge at U.S. 75 Completed Stimulus Projects Started on Longview Roads Accelerating Austin’s U.S. 290 East project – known as the Manor Expressway – moved ahead as the Central Texas Regional

Related Links: Corgan Converts Natatorium Into Culinary Arts Building New Texas A&M Agriculture Headquarters Breaks Ground UH Freshman Housing Facility Construction Under Way Dallas Cowboys Break Ground on Mega-Merchandise HQ El Paso Boasts Building Activity Frenzy Hanson Pipe & Precast of Irving supplied a modular bridge for Oak Run Middle School in New Braunfels to replace an inadequate walkway. Students previously had to cross the flooded walkway when it rained. New Braunfels-based Acme Bridge Co. Inc contracted Hanson Pipe & Precast to design and manufacture the approximately $221,000 Oak Run pedestrian bridge, which was privately and publicly funded. Hanson manufactured

Related Links: Funding for Austin�s Manor Expressway Speeds Project Ahead Transportation Commission Selects Private Firm for Agency Review Fort Worth Street Widening, Improvement Project Under Way Bridge Beams Go Up in Woodall Rodgers Extension Project in Dallas Plano�s Eastbound Parker Road Bridge at U.S. 75 Completed Stimulus Projects Started on Longview Roads Wichita Falls Flyover North to West Ramp Opened Odessa�s New $24-Million JBS Interchange Opens Sam Houston Tollway Construction Improves Exit Ramps TxDOT Implements Safe Routes to School Program in West Texas Construction Contract Let for Segment 3A of Toll 49 in Tyler Work Continues on Laredo�s FM 1472

Related Links: Funding for Austin�s Manor Expressway Speeds Project Ahead Transportation Commission Selects Private Firm for Agency Review Fort Worth Street Widening, Improvement Project Under Way Bridge Beams Go Up in Woodall Rodgers Extension Project in Dallas Plano�s Eastbound Parker Road Bridge at U.S. 75 Completed Stimulus Projects Started on Longview Roads Wichita Falls Flyover North to West Ramp Opened $88-Million IH-35 Project in Waco Moves with Bridge Demolition Sam Houston Tollway Construction Improves Exit Ramps TxDOT Implements Safe Routes to School Program in West Texas Construction Contract Let for Segment 3A of Toll 49 in Tyler Work Continues on

Related Links: Congress Promotes Green-Building Practices with Financial Incentives Adolfson & Peterson Marks Safety Milestone, Earns ABC Award Rider Appointed to Industrialized Building Code Council Corrpro Houston Crew Earns Safety Excellence Award Former Austin District Engineer Hired by Williamson County TCEQ Names M.D. Anderson New Clean Texas Member Tellepsen Launches New Brand to Mark Anniversary On May 27, Mike Kress, vice president of sales and marketing at Houston-based The Bayou Companies Inc., a subsidiary of Insituform Technologies Inc., died. He was an active member of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America Foundation and the Southern Gas Association, where he

Related Links: Funding for Austin�s Manor Expressway Speeds Project Ahead Transportation Commission Selects Private Firm for Agency Review Fort Worth Street Widening, Improvement Project Under Way Bridge Beams Go Up in Woodall Rodgers Extension Project in Dallas Stimulus Projects Started on Longview Roads The Texas Department of Transportation temporarily closed the southwest and southeast U.S. 75 frontage road ramps to and from Parker Road for almost a week recently to divert traffic onto the newly completed eastbound Parker Road bridge. The work is part of a $20-million construction project to convert the U.S. 75 and Parker Road interchange from a

Related Links: DART Light Rail Scheduled to Land at DFW Airport in 2013 DHS Grant Jump Starts Houston Ship Channel Security District TCEQ Increases High and Significant-Hazard Dam Inspections The Port Commission of The Port of Houston Authority awarded a contract for an electrical installation and approved the advertisement and receipt of proposals for the purchase of deregulated electric power portwide including renewable energy. Commissioners awarded a construction contract to Houston-based Dashiell LLC, for 138kV substation expansion at Bayport Container Terminal for $2.2 million. The 138kV substation is an electrical installation that transforms high voltage from CenterPoint to a lower

Related Links: Congress Promotes Green-Building Practices with Financial Incentives Adolfson & Peterson Marks Safety Milestone, Earns ABC Award Corrpro Houston Crew Earns Safety Excellence Award Former Austin District Engineer Hired by Williamson County TCEQ Names M.D. Anderson New Clean Texas Member Tellepsen Launches New Brand to Mark Anniversary Mike Kress, VP With The Bayou Companies in Houston, Dies Jesse Rider of Tyler was appointed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to the Industrialized Building Code Council for a term that will expire on Feb. 1, 2010. The council oversees the inspection of industrialized housing and buildings to ensure that state standards

Related Links: Funding for Austin�s Manor Expressway Speeds Project Ahead Transportation Commission Selects Private Firm for Agency Review Fort Worth Street Widening, Improvement Project Under Way Bridge Beams Go Up in Woodall Rodgers Extension Project in Dallas Plano�s Eastbound Parker Road Bridge at U.S. 75 Completed Stimulus Projects Started on Longview Roads Wichita Falls Flyover North to West Ramp Opened $88-Million IH-35 Project in Waco Moves with Bridge Demolition Odessa�s New $24-Million JBS Interchange Opens TxDOT Implements Safe Routes to School Program in West Texas Construction Contract Let for Segment 3A of Toll 49 in Tyler Work Continues on Laredo�s