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For years naysayers said it would never come to pass. Yet within a year there will be numerous passes — in soccer games, that is — when the Red Bull Arena, now rising in Harrison, N.J., is completed. Situated across the Passaic River from Newark, N.J., Harrison is a working class town whose population is keenly interested in following and playing soccer. The venue will become the new home of a Major League Soccer team, the New York Red Bulls, owned by the Austrian energy drink manufacturer Red Bull GmbH. The team is currently based in the Giants’ stadium in New Jersey. Red Bulls’ fans will find games easy to attend, since the stadium is located near the Jackson Street Bridge to Newark and will be accessible from both Interstate 280

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When the U.S. Senate failed in September to enact six-year transportation legislation or to extend the existing funding authority in a responsible way, it created a billion-dollar-a-month hole for the construction industry. “The baseline for the federal highway account is reduced by a billion dollars each month we have a continuing resolution,” said Tony Dorsey, media spokesman of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). “It will cost our members one billion dollars every month we have a resolution.” While the huge loss is mostly on paper — so far — it nonetheless is a drag on the construction economy. Here’s the deal: Though the Senate agreed with the House at the very last moment to a one-month extension of existing transportation funding authority, senators failed to include a provision to roll back funding rescissions stipulated in the last six-year bill. The $8.7 billion in rescission money was a bookkeeping method of understating the true cost of SAFETEA-LU, which was passed in 2005 (two years into the six

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Health care reform in the United States has been beaten nearly to death this year by advocates and critics alike. Yet as the debate moves into October, the final shape of “reform” remains elusive and elastic with construction industry executives anxious about its impact on their companies. Any change in the system definitely will have impact on contractors and a sweeping change could upend smaller firms — and most construction companies are small-tomedium-sized. The truth of the matter is the reform model in which government would provide most health care services would dramatically change the way every business operates, lar e or small. It is impractical to hope that health care projects and this particular job was among those re-evaluated. As a result, a parkway was ultimate- reform will be tailored to the construction CEG CORRESPONDENT ly chosen as an appropriate solution for improving industry Nevertheless, small businesses After many years of discussion, an ambitious travel conditions in the area while remaining with- consistently favor certain reform initiatives project to ease congestion in Pennsylvania’ in the limitations imposed by available funds. over others. ere shington to institute densely populated Bucks and Montgomery counreform along the lines general contractors ties is finally under way with might lay down, the following features construction of a long-awaited would be among the legislated changes: • New authority for ssociations to negotiate insurance packages for their members. Besides gaining clout in negotiating benefits, association insurance negotiators could win lower premiums, if given the opportunity Associated Builders and Gov Martin O’Malley announced that additional transportation Contractors noted that private insurance projects worth $30 million will be funded by President Barack carriers must mark up premiums as much Obama’ American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). as 35 percent when dealing with small Funding for these additional projects is available due to savings groups in order to meet profit tar ets and generated by the intense competition for Maryland’ high- offset overhead. Whereas associations can provide the same administrative services way and transit contracts advertised earlier this year “Without a doubt, President Obama’s recovery program is gen- for their members at a cost of 15 percent or erating the desired effect here in Maryland,” said O’Malley less — if, that is, members are allowed to “Across our state, work is under way rehabilitating our roads, bridges and transit systems. Healthy competition for those state buy insurance through small business health plan pools.

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In trucking, cooperation is everything. The same could be said for construction work, al l contracting and the running of any successful club or organization. Cooperation in all these arenas came together as one at the Antique T uck Club of er ica’s Little Rhody Chapter Sixth A nual Antique T uck Show on Sept. 13 on the shington County Fairgrounds in Richmond, R.I. orking in conjunction w th the H storical Construction ent Association’s (HCEA) Northeast Rockbusters once again, more than 60 me bers of the local Antique T uck Club brought out their fi nest old equipment, to the delight and surprise of other me bers, guests and enthusiasts. The Antique T uck Club and the Rockbusters hold this event every September ing people from every New England state. M chines that range from the unusual to the sublime fill the flat fields of the fairgrounds for passersby to

re. “We combine our shows. e support them and they support us, even in the rain,” sa id Jackie olatile, who organizes these shows with her husban d, Roger the club’ president. hat m de the presidential couple so proud this year was that the event was organized to raise money and food for the Rhode Island Food Bank. e brought in 800 pounds of canned goods. Last year, we fed 2,000 needy families for a year and we are quite proud of that,” said Jackie olatile. They also are very proud of the cooperation and shared interests of their me bers who bring any and all working antique machines to these events , as long as they are able. “We welcome classic trucks, we welcome tractors, anything that come ” added Roge olatile. “Antique is antique to us.” The olatiles represent the L ttle Rhody Chapter at national events, usually held in the National Chapter s home state of Pennsylvania. “There are 21 different chapters in the

Cat 321C LCR and 330DL excavators are hard at work at a C.W. Matthews project in Northeast Cobb County, Ga., for emergency Cobb DOT road replacement, which included installation of a triple barrel 72 in (183 cm)., 70 ft. (21 m) long piping system and temporary road to service 40 homes that were without a roadway to get out of their Waterford subdivision homes.

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$14 m llion contract to conduct bridge rehabilitation and concrete patching on I-696 — the east project. The west contract involves significant ounts of overlay but there is none on the east contract. Instead, there is, as D avettila says, “a lot of concrete patching.” Other Names fo Old-T T Before being designated as a m litary highy in 1832, the corridor from L ke M chigan through Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids w

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reform odel in which government wo uld provide most health care services would dramatically change the w y every business operates, lar e or all. It is impractical to hope that health care reform will be tailored to the construction industry evertheless, small businesses consistently favor certain reform initiatives over others. ere shington to institute reform along the lines general contractors m ght lay down, the following features would be among the legislated changes: • New authority for ssociations to negotiate insurance packages

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A total of 56 bridges will undergo rehabilitation. Because C.A. Hall is a subcontractor for all bridge work on both contracts and since there is a lot of bridge work in the west contract, Hall is doing considerable work on both.

particularly concerning the bridge work. total of 56 bridges will under o rehabilitation. Because C H ll is a subcontractor for all bridge work on both contracts and since there’ a lot of bridge work in the west contract, H ll is doing considerable work on both. “Because they’re a m jor sub, it leads to a lot of coordination. Hall is at all the meetings for the Dan’s contract.” According to Daavettila, the two big contracts consist of a two-year project for $47 million to reconstruct pavement from ovi to ington Hills — the west project —

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Ov For all practical purposes, the $67 m llion overall project has been divided into t o contracts — east and west — th two prime contractors: D s Excavating out of Grant M ch. on the west contract and C H ll on the east. t even that division is a little blurry “There are overlapping facets,” says Bob Daavettila, construction director for Tetra Tech,

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ork on a Utah freeway reconstruction project so unusual it was featured as National Geographic Channel’s “World’ Toughest Fixes” is heading for an on-time, on-budget completion at the end of the year hat made work on a 2-mi. (3.2 km) stretch of I-80 in Salt Lake City project extraordinary was the Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) method using Self Propelled Modular T ansports (SPMT to construct six of 12 bridges and one of two ram s in the project. The $139 million project along a 2-mi. stretch from State Street to 1300 East through Salt Lake City i cludes construction of the bridges and ramp “not at their final locat on,” John Montoya, project m nager said. Instead, the girders and decks were constructed on the ground at a “bridge farm.” M ssive transporters moved them to be lifted into place along the expressway

Horrocks Engineering and H.W Lochner Engineering are the designers and Ralph L. dsworth Construction is the general contractorSome of the bridges were transported as m ch le and a half which is “a good distance,” Montoya said. “That w s significant. There are a fair amount of projects where you move a bridge a couple hundred feet but we actually moved some of them ile and a half.” The bridges that were moved vary in length from 85 to 173 ft. (25.9 to 52.7 m and were 43 to 94 ft. (13 to 28.6 m) wide, Carlye Sommers, public involvement manager for Lochner The lar est weighed in at 1,350 tons (1,220 t). The SPMT that moved the bri ges had approximately 250 wheels and moved at an average speed of five m les per hour, Som ers said. The only route crews could move the bridges down w s the same one they were working on so

change could upend smaller firms — ost construction com anies are small-tomedium-sized. The truth of the m tter is the reform model in which government would provide most health care services would dramatically change the way every business operates, lar e or small. It is impractical to hope that health care reform ll be tailored to the construction industry Nevertheless, small businesses consistently favor certain reform initiatives over others. ere shington to institute reform along the lines general contractors might lay down, the following features would be among the legislated changes: • New authority fo oc t ons to negotiate insurance packages for thei e bers. Besides gaining clout in negotiating benefits, association insurance negotiators could win lower premiums, if given the opportunity sociated Builders and Contractors noted that private insurance c e t k e much as 35 percent when dealing with small groups in order to meet profit tar ets and offset overhead. hereas associations can provide the same nistrative services for their me bers at a cost of 15 percent or less — if, that is, me bers are allowed to buy insurance through small business

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staged a rally on the National Mall against a backdrop of idle construction equipment and a sea of orange flags to emphasize the 550,000 jobs lost in this industry and encourage the federal government not to delay enactment of the multi-year highway legislation. The caravan circled Capitol Hill and

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) New York has shortchanged highway and bridge projects by billions of dollars over nearly two decades, siphoning off funds set aside to pay for repairs and upgrades to cover other state expenses, New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Oct. 29. He said almost $4 billion will have to be transferred by the state to the Highway and Bridge Trust Fund by 2014 to meet the obligations of the fund, created in 1991 to pay for construction and rehabilitation of state-owned roads and bridges. Only $11.6 billion, or just under 35 percent of the fund’s total, has gone directly toward infrastructure over the past 18 years, DiNapoli said at a Long Island news conference. The rest has been diverted, with legislative authorization, to debt payments and operations of the state

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A sea of 5,500 orange flags, each one representing 100 jobs already lost in the construction equipment industry.

A large caravan of bulldozers and other construction equipment displaying huge banners paraded through the streets of Washington Oct. 28 to send a message to lawmakers that they must act now to stop the bleeding in the construction equipment industry. Start Us Up USA! campaign organizers joined by House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., and other allies, also

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In Bethesda, Md., a major expansion and renovation to the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) is currently well under way and moving toward a 2011 completion date. The upgraded facility will be known as the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and will be a hospital and flagship medical institution for the Army, Air Force and Navy. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded the $641.4 million design-build contract to Clark/Balfour A Hitachi 500 excavator works at what will be an Beatty, A Joint Venture. The project will upgraded facility known as the Walter Reed be designed and constructed under the National Military Medical Center, and will be a Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) hospital and flagship medical institution for the program to meet LEED Silver certifica- Army, Air Force and Navy. tion. The design-build project has a current con- (15,329 sq m) in-patient addition to the existing struction cost of $617 million. The contract calls hospital. Clark/Balfour Beatty also is constructfor building a new 560,000-sq.-ft. (52,026 sq m) ing an eight-story, 944-space patient parking ambulatory care clinic and a 165,000-sq.-ft. see HOSPITAL page 98

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The Pittsburgh Construction Expo is set for Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 9 and 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the new Monroeville Convention Center.

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CEG Productions, the trade show division of Construction Equipment Guide, has announced the dates for its 2010 Pennsylvania Expos. The Pittsburgh Construction Expo is set for Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 9 and 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the new Monroeville Convention Center, and the 11th Annual Philadelphia Construction Expo will be held on Tuesday, March 9 from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. and Wednesday, March 10 from 9:30 a.m.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) New York state Sen. Elizabeth Little said the sudden closure of an unstable, half-mi. bridge spanning Lake Champlain in Essex County is isolating the communities that rely on it and harming nearby businesses. Little said the closing does not bode well for other communities that could suffer the same problem of failing roads and infrastructure. “The detour for the bridge is over 80 miles each way,’’ Little said. “There are a huge number of people who live in New York and work in Vermont, and vice versa, but also many, many people in Crown Point, Fort [William] Henry and Ticonderoga get their health care in Middlebury, Vermont, at Porter hospital.’’ She said the hospital has the only maternity ward within 55 miles for some places in the area. Engineers declared the 80-year-old bridge too unstable to be renovated, recommended demolishing it for safety reasons and building a new bridge. Michael Sweeney has taken to rowing across the water. The 58-year-old is retired, but he delivers for a local newspaper and also likes to try to support the businesses that have been struggling without the bridge traffic. “I don’t feel like waiting for the ferry so I decided for now I’m just going to row across. It’s only about half a mile,’’ Sweeney said. Barbara Brassard, the executive director of the Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce, said businesses that normally benefit from through traffic on the Crown Point Bridge have suffered losses between 30 and 90 percent since the bridge closed in mid-October. “This is the short term impact,’’ Brassard said. “The long term impact would surface next summer when the tourists normally arrive.’’ The Warren County Republican said New

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For a short time this fall, the MD 90 (Ocean City Expressway) Bridge in Worcester County, Md., was closed for repair. It was reopened to traffic just in time for Thanksgiving, on Nov. 24. The bridge was originally scheduled to open in mid-December after it was closed on Oct. 15 by the Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration (SHA) in order to replace an 85-ft. (26 m) section. “The MD 90 Bridge, which crosses Assawoman Bay, carries 18,000 vehicles each day to and from Ocean City, which is a popular resort on Maryland’s Eastern Shore,” said Kellie Boulware of SHA. “During a recent inspection, our engineers discovered that a section of the center span of the bridge had significant deterioration. Immediately, SHA enforced a weight restriction on the bridge of no more than 6,000 pounds, which limited use to passenger vehicles only, and all traffic was diverted to the southern bridge — U.S. 50 (Harry Kelly Memorial Bridge) to reach Ocean City.

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Crews continued to work around the clock to get the work done. Due to the waterway impacts, SHA worked closely with the U.S. Coast Guard to relocate the channel for marine traffic.

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in the Master Builders’ Association of Western Pennsylvania mostly work through trade unions. It is an association that goes back a long ways: the Master Builders’ Association — a founding member of Associated General

A dynamic apprenticeship program will not by itself save the U.S. construction industry from a looming shortage of skilled labor, but it is “one of the pieces of the puzzle” to stabilizing the labor situation, say industry leaders. Unions, contractors and associations operate apprenticeship programs mostly to teach trade skills. However, they also hope the programs will swell the ranks of craftspeople and retain By Jennifer Hetrick their workplace allegiance for a lifeCEG EDITORIAL ASSISTANT time. The ultimate goal of every apprenticeship program sponsor in the H. Jack Hunkele, 94, former prescountry is to boost both the quality and ident of Foley Inc., Piscataway, N.J., quantity of trained construction labordied at his home in the Sarasota Bay ers. How they pursue this common Club, Sarasota, Fla., Nov. 11. objective differs in a variety of ways. Mr. Hunkele was originally from To produce skilled workers in such Newark, N.J., but moved to Peoria, fields as carpentry, cement masonry Ill., to work as a Caterpillar salesand construction laborer, contractors

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Former Foley President, H. Jack Hunkele, Dies man after completing his courses at Lehigh. He worked for Cat for 12 years, moving from sales to management. During that time, he met his wife Evelyn, who predeceased him. Upon his return to New Jersey with his two children, he began working for Foley Inc. It is see HUNKELE page 108

Jack Hunkele, president of Foley Machinery, addressing the crowd during the grand opening of Foley’s Piscataway, N.J., facility in 1967.