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Work to be done includes scaling and trimming, trim blasting, pre-split blasting and rock removal. Rock bolts also will be placed to secure material adjacent to areas where rock was removed in order to forestall future slides.

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I-40 Landslide May Take Six Months to Clear By Eric Olson CEG CORRESPONDENT

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When the U.S. Senate failed ni September to enact six-year transportation legislation or to extend the existing funding authority in a responsible way it createda billion-dollar a-month hole for the construc tion industry “The baseline for the federal highway account is reduced by a billion dollars eac h ” U.S. Group installed more than 2,500 yellow storm water chambers about 5 ft. (1.5 m) under- month we have a continuing resolution, ground, each of which allows rainwater to soak into the ground underneath the parking area, said Tony Dorsey, media spokesman of th e rather than run off into the surrounding area. American Association of State Highway

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and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) “It will cost our members one billion dollar s every month we have a resolution.” While the huge loss is mostly on paper — so far — it nonetheless is a drag on the con struction economy Here’s the deal: Though the Senate agreed with the House at the very last moment to a one-month The just-opened parking area, the biggest difference on rainy extension of existing transportation funding on the southwest side of Saturdays due to an unseen tech- authority, senators failed to include a provi sion to roll back funding rescissions stipu Williams-Brice Stadium in nology under their very feet. n For years, the approximately lated in the last six-year bill. The $8.7 billio Tailgate parties at University Columbia, also serves visitors to of South Carolina (USC) the South Carolina State Fair 30-acre site had been a dirt and in rescission money was a bookkeeping Gamecocks football games which will ran this year from grass parking lot for more than method of understating the true cost of 4,000 vehicles. Minor flooding SAFETEA-LU, which was passed in 2005 should be more enjoyable this Oct. 14 to 25. Football fans and fair goers had proven to be a major (two years into the six years of its effective fall with the construction of a sparkling new parking area adja- alike who have parked near the headache at the site as it sits in a authority). The sleight of hand was needed stadium in the past should notice cent to the stadium. see PARKING page 28 see EXTENSION page 58

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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 m de work on a 2-m . (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 ramps in the project. The $139 million project along a 2-mi. stretch from State Street to 1300 East through Salt Lake City includes construction of the bridges and ramp “not at their final location,” John Montoya, project manager 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 much as a mile and a half which is “a good distance,” Montoya “That was 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 m nager for Lochner The lar est weighed in at 1,350 tons (1,220 t). The SPMT that moved the bridges had approximately 250 wheels and moved at an average speed of five miles per hour, Sommers said. The only route crews could move the bridges down was the same one they were working on so

change could upend smaller firms — ost construction companies are small-toedium-sized. The truth of the matter is the reform odel 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 ght lay down, the following features would be among the legislated changes: • New authority for ssoci tions to negotiate insurance packages for their e bers. Besides gaining clout in negotiating benefits, association insurance negotiators could win lower premiums, if given the opportunity ssociated B ilders and Contractors noted that private insurance carriers must mark up premiums as m ch as 35 percent when dealing with small groups in order to meet profit tar ets and offset overhead. hereas associations can provide the same administrative services for their members at a cost of 15 percent or less — if, that is, members are allowed to buy insurance through small business

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Words Into Action: Route 202 Parkway Finally Advances projects and this particular job was among those re-evaluated. As a result, a parkway was ultimateCEG CORRESPONDENT ly chosen as an appropri ate solution for improving travel conditions in the area while remaining withAfter many years of discussion, an ambitious in the limitations imposed by available funds. project to ease congestion in Pennsylvania’ densely populated Bucks and Montgomery counties is finally under w th construction of a long-aw ited parkway The Pennsylvania Department of T ansportation (PennDOT) has estim ted that by 2020 the new highway will be traveled by between 23,700 and 28,300 vehicles daily Gov M rtin O’M lley announced that additional transportation Certain changes, however projects worth $30 million will be funded by President Barack had to be made before ground Obama’ American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). could be broken for the project. Funding for these additional projects is available due to savings According to PennDOT the generated by the intense competition for M ryland’ highparkw y had initially been y and transit contracts advertised earlier this year planned as an expressway with “Without a doubt, President Obama’s recovery program is genlimited access. However erating the desired effect here in M ryland,” said O’M lley M rch 2004, the department “Across our state, work is under way rehabilitating our roads, bridges and transit systems. Hea lthy competition for those state realized its projected revenues would not provide enough funding for all its proposed

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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 com anies. Any change in the system definitely will have impact on contractors and a sweeping change could upend smaller firms — most construction companies are small-tomedium-sized. The truth of the matter is the reform odel 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 ill 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: Besides gaining clout in negotiating benefits, association insurance negotiators could win lower premiums, if given the opportunity Associated Builders and Contractors noted that private insurance ca 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 adm nistrative services for their members at a cost of 15 percent or less — if, that is, me bers are allowed to 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, all 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 America’s Little Rhody Chapter Sixth Annual Antique T uck Show on Sept. 13 on the shington County Fairgrounds in Richmond, R.I. orking in conjunction with the Historical Construction Equipment Association’s (HCEA) Northeast Rockbusters once again, more than 60 members of the local Antique T uck Club brought out their finest old equipment, to the delight and surprise of other members, guests and enthusiasts. The Antique T uck Club and the Rockbusters hold this event every September drawing 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

ire. “We combine our shows. e support them and they support us, even in the rain,” said Jackie olatile, who organizes these shows with her husband, Roger the club’s president. hat made 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 members 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 comes in,” added Roger olatile. “Antique is antique to us.” The olatiles represent the Little Rhody Chapter at national events, usually held in the National Chapter s home state of Pennsylvania. “There are 21 different chapters in the

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hort 19-mi. (30.5 km) stretch of road just north of Detroit has been transformed into an improvement project with a rather complicated strategy. Extensive work on the I-96/I-696 corridor in Oakland and M comb counties has been divided into four separate projects. Project 1 consists of rehabilitation of eight bridges and repair of 4 mi. (6.4 km) of pavement in Oakland County between Novi and Halsted roads, including the I-96/I-696/M-5 interchange in Novi and Farmington Hills. Project 2 picks up where the first project ends and involves pavement patching and rehabilitation of 42 bridges on I-696 in Oakland County between H lsted and C pbell-Hilton roads. Project 3 focuses on rehabilitating 22 bridges on I-696, 15 of which are located within the I696/Mound Road interchange. Project 4 includes rehabi litation of six bridges and extensive pavement repairs to I-696 between Hayes and Nieman roads in M comb County Also included are safety upgrades and lighting replacement on the median and ramps. Over For all practical purposes, the $67 m llion overall project has been divided into two contracts — east and west — with two prime contractors: Dan’s Excavating out of Grant, M ch., on the west contract and C.A. Hall on the east. But even that division is a little blurry “There are overlapping facets,” says Bob Daavettila, construction director for Tetra Tech,

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 undergo rehabilitation. Because C.A. Hall 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 major 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 Novi to Farmington Hills — the west project —

$14 million contract to conduct bridge rehabilitation and concrete patching on I-696 — the east project. The west contract involves significant amounts of overlay but there is none on the east contract. Instead, there is, as Daavettila says, “a lot of concrete patching.” Other N s for an Old-Time T Before being designated as a military highway in 1832, the corridor from Lake M chigan through Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids was

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Health care reform in the U ited Stat es 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” rem ins elusive and elastic w th 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-to-medium-size 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 reform will 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 for ssociations to negotiate insurance packages

Officials with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) believe that a large rock slide blocking both directions of Interstate 40 just east of the Tennessee line could take as long as six months to clear. The slide happened in the early morning hours of Oct. 25 at mile marker 2.6 in a rugged mountainous area of Haywood County. As a result, one of the Southeast’s major thoroughfares is closed from Exit 20 in North Carolina west to Exit 451 in Tennessee, forcing a detour that will take motorists many miles out of their way. Several hours after the 200-ft.-wide (60.9 m) landslide occurred, NCDOT had rushed a crew on site to assess the situation and begin a preliminary cleanup. Initially, it was see LANDSLIDE page 26 AP Photo/Bill Sanders, Asheville Citizen-Times

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

Work begins on clearing a rock slide Oct. 27, 2009, on Interstate 40 in Haywood County, west of Asheville, N.C. Engineers plan to remove as much of the rock at the base of the slide as possible to allow room for material still clinging to the mountainside to be dislodged.

AGC: Stim Projects Add, Save Construction Jobs A $20.5 million stimulus-funded project to widen I-95 in Palm Bay, Fla., is helping Ranger Construction expand its payroll and retain dozens of employees facing layoffs, the Associated General Contractors of America announced Oct. 30. The association added that the Florida firm’s experiences, along with those of contractors across the country, underscore the economic benefits of investing in infrastructure and construction projects.

“For the dozens of men and women who will be working on this project, the stimulus means a good job, warm food and a comfortable home,” Bob Schafer, president of the Associated General Contractors’ Florida East Coast Chapter and vice president of Ranger Construction, said. “As far as this project is concerned, the stimulus is working as intended.” Schafer said the stimulus-funded project couldn’t have come at a

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Roadbuilders LLC of Laurel under the direction of Pepper Beckman. Work began in July, and the expected completion date was set at Nov. 30. The project was made possible through federal funds as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), also known

NEW ORLEANS (AP) The U.S. federal government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval on Nov. 18 awarded seven plaintiffs $720,000, but the government could eventually be forced to pay much more. The ruling should give more than 100,000 other individuals, businesses and government entities a better shot at claiming damages. Duval sided with six residents and one business who argued the Army Corps’ shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward and neighboring St. Bernard Parish. He said, however, the corps couldn’t be held liable for the flooding of eastern New Orleans, where two of the plaintiffs lived. The ruling also is emotionally resonant for south Louisiana. Many in New Orleans have argued that the flooding in the aftermath of

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The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) is currently supervising the resurfacing of 5.3 mi. (8.5 km) of U.S. 49 in Hattiesburg. The contract for the $8.3 million project was handled by Dunn

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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 construc-

tion equipment industry. Start Us Up USA! campaign organizers joined by House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., and other allies, also staged a rally see RALLY page 48

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By Giles Lambertson 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

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their workplace allegiance for a lifetime. The ultimate goal of every apprenticeship program sponsor in the country is to boost both the quality and quantity of trained construction laborers. How they pursue this common objective differs in a variety of ways. To produce skilled workers in such fields as carpentry, cement masonry and construction laborer, contractors 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’

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Association — a founding member of Associated General Contractors — and the carpenters union both date from the 1880s. The success of apprenticeship programs in Pittsburgh is evident in the new $13 million training center of the Carpenters Joint Apprenticeship and Training Program. Ground was broken a year ago for the center, which sits adjacent to the carpenters’ headquarters. The 93,000-sq-ft. facility is state of the art, according to Jon O’Brien, MBA’s director of communicasee APPRENTICE page 31

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Rain set off a rock slide at the 17-mi. marker on U.S. 64 in the Ocoee River Gorge in Polk County, Tenn., early one morning in November, blocking the west lane. The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) quickly dispatched mobile maintenance crews to clear it, but when a boulder the size of a truck fell on the east lane, TDOT

brought in a private contractor to break it up with an impact hammer in preparation for removal. A few hours later, TDOT geologist Vanessa Bateman arrived from her Nashville office. Upon hearing a thunderous cracking noise, she ordered workers to move back just before continuous rain precipitated another slide that dropped boulders on the roadway. In a matter of seconds, the scope of the cleanup had been magnified, with the road see TDOT page 18

Photo Courtesy of Fernando Medina/Orlando Magic 2009

The Amway Center, which is scheduled to open in fall 2010, will be home to the NBA’s Orlando Magic.

Alison Premo Black said the value of highway, street and bridge construction (from all sources) put in place should reach $90.5 billion in 2010, up from about $83.9 billion this year. Black cautioned, however, that the boost to the market could be temporary. Uncertainty over the reauthorization of the multi-year federal surface transportation bill and future growth of the overall

“This will be one of the most technologically advanced event centers in the world when it opens,” said Robert L. Rayborn, RA, LEED AP Construction Executive Sports and Public Assembly Group of Turner Construction Company, which is managing the project. The center, which also is set to host national events and concerts, will feature a modern mix of metal and glass exterior materials. There will be a 120-ft.(36.5 m) tall glass tower (with features such as 200 LED lights and an observation deck on top) that will serve as a landmark for the downtown area while anchoring the arena to the adjacent I-4

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Highway Construction Market Expected to Grow 8 Percent in ’10 Driven by record federal investment in surface transportation, increased spending through the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and continued easing in material prices, the highway construction market is expected to grow eight percent in 2010, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) annual economic forecast. ARTBA Vice President of Policy & Economist

A sports landmark is in the works in downtown Orlando, Fla. The Amway Center, which is scheduled to open in fall 2010, will be home to the NBA’s Orlando Magic and at 875,000 sq. ft. (81,290 sq m) and 8.75 acres (3.5 ha) it will nearly triple the size of the Orlando Magic’s current home arena.