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Four servicemen who attended a benefit concert for ThanksUSA at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Nov. 9, 2009, have different home states, but what they all have in common is they have been undergoing treatment at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Colonel James G. Hay, Private First Class Michael Cunningham, Sergeant Ryan Lohss and Specialist Jason Poyneer were flown to the event by the Veterans Airlift Command (VAC), a not-forprofit organization providing free air travel to wounded veterans and their families. Coble Trench Safety, based in

(L-R): SPC Jason Poyneer, SGT Ryan Lohss, PFC Mike Cunningham, Col Jim Hay, Debby Coble and Tom Coble at Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tenn.

Greensboro, N.C., was one of the travel sponsors for the concert. This was the sixth trip the company has made for the VAC Wounded Warrior program. All costs associated with these flights are covered by aircraft owners in the VAC’s national network, and while the Command is currently concentrating on those who served or still serve in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, it hopes to eventually expand flights to the veterans of other wars. “Coble Trench Safety employees, Debby Coble, and myself were thrilled to assist these wounded warriors for the Veterans Airlift Command ThanksUSA trip to Nashville, Tenn., to raise scholarship funds for our troops’families,” see CONCERT page 28

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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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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

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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 tion equipment industry Start Us and other construction equipment Up USA! campaign organizers displaying huge banners paraded joined by House Transportation through the streets of Washington & Infrastructure Committee Oct. 28 to send a message to law- Chairman Jim Oberstar D-Minn., makers that they must act now to and other allies, also staged a rally stop the bleeding in the construcsee RALLY page 48

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-fund“For the dozens of men and ed project to widen I-95 in Palm women who will be working on Bay Fla., is helping Ranger this project, the stimulus means a Construction expand its payroll good job, warm food and a comand retain dozens of employees fortable home,” Bob Schafer presfacing layoffs, the Associated ident of the Associated General General Contractors of America Contractors’ Florida East Coast announced Oct. 30. The associa- Chapter and vice president of tion added that the Florida firm’s Ranger Construction, said. “As far experiences, along with those of as this project is concerned, the contractors across the country stimulus is working as intended.” underscore the economic benefits Schafer said the stimulus-fundof investing in infrastructure and ed project couldn’t have come at a construction projects. see STIMULUS page 47

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The paver foreman and screed operator adjusting the controls of screed to keep the width uniform and depth of the asphalt consistent.

MDOT Puts Stimulus Funds to Work Resurfacing U.S. 49 By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT

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

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 see MDOT page 62

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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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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Apprenticeships Eye Creating Lifetime Craftspeople 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

Rock Slide Poses Slippery Slope for Repair Crews in Tennessee

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

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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.

Company Founder Viewed Jindal Admin. to as Angel Amid Disaster Hasten Planned Highway Work By Giles Lambertson CEG CORRESPONDENT

“Tad Agoglia is almost looked upon as an angel here in Parkersburg, Iowa,” said Table of Contents ................4 city administrator Chris Luhring. Agoglia doesn’t have wings, as it turns out, but his story does have a Christmas Underground Utility, Trenchers feel. & Boxes Section............35-37 Two years ago, Agoglia converted his profitable disaster response and cleanup Paving Section ..............41-53 company to a nonprofit foundation. He left his home and went on the road where Parts Section......................54 he spends all year donating his expertise to stricken communities and seeking Business Calendar ..............59 support and training for his team. Several leading equipment manufacturers and construction industry companies have Auction Section ............60-73 caught the giving spirit and are backing him with money and machinery. Advertisers Index ..............74 see ANGEL page 24

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LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) The state transportation department intends to speed up planned highway work, starting $120 million in road and bridge construction now that wasn’t set to begin for a few more years, Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Dec. 15. State Transportation and Development Secretary William Ankner said the state is using dollars left over from the 2007-08 and 2008-09 budget years and other available funds that had been banked in the treasury to start the construction work. “We’ve got road projects that are sorely needed by the public,’’Ankner said. As he announced the plans at a Lafayette event, Jindal Tad Agoglia surveying the damage in part of Parkersburg, Iowa.

see JINDAL page 54


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