Construction articles from March 2007

Construction archives from March 2007

CST Environmental Opens Charlotte Office.
March 12, 2007... Staff CST Environmental, Inc., a leading demolition, abatement and hazardous remediation contractor, recently opened a new office in Charlotte. This is the eighth office for the company in the country. CST offers all demolition...

Stoehr Breaks Ground On Expansion.(Stoehr Companies Inc.)(Safe Haven Shelter)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Staff Stoehr Companies, Inc., a commercial general contracting and construction management firm, recently broke ground on the addition and expansion of the Safe Haven Shelter in Westminster, Maryland. Safe Haven is a Department of...

R.W. Moore Honors Employees.
March 12, 2007... Staff Dan Moore, president of R.W. Moore Equipment Company, a full-service equipment provider specializing in John Deere machinery, honored six local employees for 10 years or more of service at a ceremony in early February. A gold ring...

Lane Company Acquires Apartment Complex.
March 12, 2007... Staff Lane Company, a leading multifamily real estate firm, has acquired Alexander Place Apartments in Charlotte, N.C. The firm purchased the community from INVESCO for $27 million. Although Lane manages nearly 3,000 units in...

Jackson Joins Warren And Associates.
March 12, 2007... Staff Matthew Jackson has joined Warren and Associates Design-Build, LLC as project engineer. Greenville-based Warren and Associates Design-Build focuses exclusively on design-build project delivery for commercial, industrial and...

WDG Architecture Promotes Five.
March 12, 2007... Staff WDG Architecture, recently rated one of the nation's "100 Hot Design Firms," has promoted five senior staff members to associate principal. The new associate principals are William Pegues, FCSI, CCS; Eric Schlegel, AIA; Steven...

Parsons Brinckerhoff Employees Win National Awards.
March 12, 2007... Staff Russ Fuhrman, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge project's executive project manager, has been awarded the 2007 Golden Beaver Award, which honors individuals for their contributions and achievements in the heavy construction industry. The...

Drilling Under The Chesapeake Bay.(Company overview)
March 12, 2007... By Karen Swanson D&D Drilling used environmentally friendly products and a Vermeer D24x40 to drill through the Chesapeake Bay watershed to relocate overhead cables. A Baltimore Gas & Electric (BG&E) product upgrade required moving...

AGCVA Holds Annual Convention.(Associated General Contractors of Virginia)(Conference notes)
March 12, 2007... By Christina Fisher The Associated General Contractors of Virginia celebrated a successful year at its annual convention at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia. The Associated General Contractors of Virginia (AGCVA) celebrated a...

CAGC Holds 86th Annual Convention.(Carolinas Associated General Contractors)(Conference notes)
March 12, 2007... By Christina Fisher St. Thomas was the site for members of the Carolinas AGC to discuss business and have fun. Members of the Carolinas Associated General Contractors and their families left the cold behind to hold their 86th Annual...

Two-Thirds Done!
March 12, 2007... Staff On-time, on-budget Wilson Bridge project ends 2006 with one-third of construction remaining. The Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project closed out 2006 with two-thirds of construction completed. "As we hit the two-thirds milestone, still...

Buchko Joins Vollmer Associates.
March 26, 2007... Staff Vollmer Associates, a major national engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, and planning firm, has named Janice Buchko an associate. Buchko is the regional manager of the Virginia/West Virginia region and oversees the...

Ober[bar]Kaler Attorneys Recognized.
March 26, 2007... Staff Five OberA*Kaler attorneys specializing in construction litigation were selected for the Maryland Super Lawyers 2007 issue, which was published in January. Raymond Daniel Burke, James E. Edwards, Joseph C. Kovars, John F. Morkan, and...

Murphy To Chair Metro Washington ABC.
March 26, 2007... Staff On January 10, 2007, Deborah Murphy took the oath of office and became the third woman in 49 years to chair the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). Murphy's agenda for 2007 will focus on...

Cook Joins Peckar & Abramson.
March 26, 2007... Staff Peckar & Abramson has announced that Jacques Cook, an attorney with international experience in structuring financial transactions for large-scale infrastructure projects, has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a partner....

Skanska Awards Partners For 2006 Efforts.
March 26, 2007... Staff Skanska USA Building Inc. announced three partner companies -- Adenium Systems, Sage Software Corporation and Eos Group -- as "Vendors of the Year" at its annual IT Vendor Summit. Skanska selected these vendors because of the...

WPC Earns Top Award.(WPC Inc. receives American Council of Engineering Companies North Carolina Engineering Excellence Award)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Staff The local Charlotte office of WPC, Inc. recently won the top ACEC-NC Engineering Excellence Award (EEA) for their engineering work completed for the U.S. National Whitewater Center. The EEA competition is a national program sponsored...

R.W. Murray Announces Charitable Contributions.
March 26, 2007... Staff R.W. Murray Co. is pleased to announce that they have contributed over $62,000 to 22 charitable organizations. The company takes a unique approach to charitable giving by allowing each employee to designate the recipient organization...

Centex Reaches Milestone On Project.(Centex Construction)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Staff Centex Construction has reached substantial completion of the demolition phase of its 2101 L Street, NW office project for Vornado/Charles E. Smith in Washington, D.C. The selective demolition involved removing the existing...

Dewberry To Engineer Danville Site.
March 26, 2007... Staff Dewberry, one of the nation's leading design consultants, has been selected to engineer the 200-acre site for Swedwood North America's new furniture manufacturing plant at Cane Creek Centre, an industrial park in Pittsylvania County,...

Editor's Report.
March 26, 2007... By Christina Fisher When I began to investigate the topic of construction industry education, I soon found myself confronted with an ever-growing mountain of information. It didn't take long to realize how big -- and how important -- this...