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.
As a young engineer at what is now GAI Consultants Inc., Gary DeJidas didn’t think his application to lead the company’s planned 1982 expansion into Florida had much chance of succeeding.
Developer of much-embattled $7.2B natural gas line in Va. and W.Va says redesigned $370M addition eliminates a compressor station and needed water crossings.
Florida executive formed three companies from the 1960s to the 1980s, becoming one of the largest concrete pumping companies in the Southeastern U.S, said a family statement.