Construction Bulletin articles from June 2009

Construction Bulletin archives from June 2009

Veit opens Milwaukee office.(Veit and Company Inc.)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... Staff Veit, a specialty contracting and waste management company in Rogers, MN, opened a new office in Milwaukee to offer earthwork, demolition, utilities, foundations and environmental remediation. The address is 1011 W. Somers Street,...

Reconstruction Accommodates Increased Traffic.
June 1, 2009... by Ivy Chang, Photos by South Dakota DOT South Dakota's Department of Transportation is making I-90 safer for increased traffic, including the Sturgis rally. A rally is coming to South Dakota, and road work must be completed by August...

Blazevic receives PE designation.
June 8, 2009... Staff Mark Blazevic earned his Professional Engineer designation and is licensed in the state of Minnesota. Blazevic is a project engineer at Encompass, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN, where he is responsible for managing field investigations...

Partnering agreement.(Distribution agreements between Truck Utilities and Manufacturing Co. and J-Craft, Inc.)(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Staff Truck Utilities, St. Paul, MN, is now an authorized service center for J-Craft, Inc., a dump body manufacturer, through a partnering agreement effective last March. In addition, Truck Utilities will distribute J-Craft's commercial...

Products submitted for review.(Conference news)(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Staff The Quality Data Oversight and Review program is accepting rolled erosion control products for review during the August 2009 meeting of the Erosion Control Technology Council. All products received by July 3, 2009, will be eligible...

ACI offers scholarships.(American Concrete Institute)(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Staff The American Concrete Institute Foundation is accepting applications for 13 different fellowships and scholarships to eligible students for 2010-2011 school year. Scholarships are $3,000 a year. Fellowships pay between $7,000 to...

Volvo sales fall.
June 8, 2009... Staff Sales for the first quarter 2009 at Volvo Construction Equipment fell by 46% with an operating loss of 17.1%. The company began to scale back production, which cut inventories by 10%, on top of the 20% in the previous quarter, but...

Caterpillar and Eaton reach agreement.
June 8, 2009... Staff Caterpillar Inc. and Eaton Corporation reached an agreement to have Caterpillar's Remanufacturing Division produce Eaton's heavy-duty transmission remanufacturing business at its Summerville, SC, facility beginning in June 2009....

Construction spending up.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Staff U.S. construction spending rose for the first time in six months. Government figures for March 2009 indicated a 0.3% rise, to $970 billion, which is 11.1% lower than spending in March 2008. Private construction spending fell 0.1%,...

Legislators Overlooked Construction Industry.
June 15, 2009... By Tim Worke, Director, Highway and Transportation Division and Dave Semerad, CEO AGC of Minnesota Minnesota legislators didn't understand the distribution of stimulus funding. During the early months of 2009, transportation interest...

Use and Popularityof Concrete Increases.
June 15, 2009... by Ivy Chang Advanced research on concrete mixes helps make this material available on any construction project. Higher demand for concrete in the last 20 years can be attributed to an exponential increase in building projects, both in...

Dalbec earns GIT certification.(Jake Dalbec)(geologist-in-training)(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Staff Jake Dalbec, American Engineering Testing, St. Paul, MN, received his Geologist-in-Training certification. He is an environmental technician and assists with phase I and II environmental site-assessment data collection, environmental...

Mulvey named Sr. VP.
June 15, 2009... Staff Adolfson & Peterson Construction, Minneapolis, named Dennis Mulvey as its senior vice president of the Midwest region. He joins A&P from Chesapeake MCM as an architect, developer and construction manager. His past projects include...

AEM elects aemsco.
June 15, 2009... Staff The Association of Equipment Manufacturers recently elected aemsco, Minot, ND, to its membership list in the international trade group. This group provides business-development resources for companies that manufacture and market...

Insect Shield.(Ergodyne Corp.)(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Staff Ergodyne introduced Insect Shield treatment into its Glowear and Chill-Its lines of safety clothes and gear to help protect workers from insect-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease and West Nile virus. The treatment uses a man-made...

Rockin' Block party.(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Staff Case Construction Equipment will launch a year-long Case Rockin' Block Party campaign this summer to celebrate 40 years of manufacturing skid steers. Customers, employees and families are invited to Case dealers across the United...

AGC calls for papers.(Associated General Contractors of America)(Conference news)(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Staff AGC of America is asking individuals and panels to submit proposals for consideration as presentations for its 91stt Annual Convention in Orlando, FL. AGC would like members to participate as speakers and panels that focus on current...

New BOMAG president.(Brief article)
June 22, 2009... Staff Walter Link was named president of BOMAG Americas, replacing Jerry Randecker who left the company. Link is responsible for operations in Kewanee, IL; Warrensburg, MO; and Mississauga, ON. Previously, Link was general manager of BOMAG...

Jim Ryan dies.(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 22, 2009... Staff Jim Ryan, CEO of Ryan Companies US, died May 28 after a 10-month battle with melanoma. Ryan helped transform his family's Minnesota-based construction business into one of the nation's leading real estate design-build development...

WCOE elects directors.(Women Construction Owners and Executives)(Brief article)
June 22, 2009... Staff Women Construction Owners and Executives, USA, elected officers and new directors at its 25th anniversary meeting. Caryn Boisen, St. Paul, MN, was elected national secretary of the national organization which provides resources to...

ConstructMyFuture.com scholarships.
June 22, 2009... Staff Ethan Heckenlaible, Fort Pierre, SD, received one of 10 ConstructMyFuture.com scholarships worth $1,000 each. He will attend Lake Area Technical Institute for diesel technology. The 2009 program was designed to encourage teens to...

CASE/MN names president.
June 29, 2009... Staff Thomas P. Venema was elected president of the Council of American Structural Engineers, Minnesota chapter, for 2009-2010. Venema is a principal engineer and vice president at American Engineering Testing, St. Paul, with...

Mn/DOT, tribe sign agreement.(Minnesota. Department of Transportation)(Brief article)
June 29, 2009... Staff On May 15, the Minnesota Department of Transportation and Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa signed an agreement to work cooperatively to manage vegetation along state highways within the boundaries of the reservation. The...

Bobcat donates records.
June 29, 2009... Staff Bobcat, West Fargo, ND, donated its corporate records to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The records are related to the manufacturing, marketing and business development of Bobcat's compact construction and...

Fraud in training.
June 29, 2009... Staff OSHA issued a warning that some trainers of its 10- and 30-hour courses in construction, maritime, and general industry safety and health are not trained and/or have failed to provide completion cards. In addition, some courses...

Fewer job losses.
June 29, 2009... Staff Associated Builders & Contractors reported that the nonresidential construction sector lost 1,400 jobs in May, slower than the 10,000 jobs lost from January through April. Total private construction employment, including specialty...

New shop in Bowman.(Brief article)
June 29, 2009... Staff Bowman County and the city of Bowman, ND, moved into a new shop they helped to build and store their equipment. The joint effort provides shared common space, including a welding bay, equipment washing area, equipment lubrication...

Safety milestone.(Adolfson and Peterson Inc.)(Brief article)
June 29, 2009... Staff Adolfson & Peterson Construction, Minneapolis, surpassed three million employee hours worked with no lost time accidents. The commitment to construction-site safety earned the company a Merit Award from the Associated Builders &...

Employment rises.
June 29, 2009... Staff The Conference Board, an international, independent business and research association, released its latest employment trends index that showed employment increased 0.2 percent from April and stands at 89.9 out of 100. The increase...