Midwest Contractor articles from December 2006

Midwest Contractor archives from December 2006

CMAA Honors Area Project.
December 11, 2006... Staff The Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) awarded a "Project Achievement Award" in the Infrastructure-Program Management category to the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport expansion project. The $1.059-billion...

IDOT: Costs Hinder Program.
December 11, 2006... Staff According to the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT), increased construction costs continue to erode the buying power of Iowa's highway agencies. Those increased costs could mean that fewer projects than anticipated will be...

Construction Starts Set Record.
December 11, 2006... Staff Reed Construction Data (RCD) announced in November that the year-to-date value of construction starts through October, excluding residential contracts, totaled $234.9 billion, 8.6-percent higher than in the first 10 months of 2005....

PCA Expects Modest Increases.
December 11, 2006... Staff According to the most recent forecast from the Economic Research department at Portland Cement Association (PCA), marginal gains are expected in cement consumption through 2007. The fall forecast, presented in November at the PCA...

Cummins Earns Leadership Award.
December 11, 2006... Staff Global Growth Consulting Company Frost & Sullivan recently presented its "2006 North American Diesel Engine Technology Leadership of the Year Award" to Cummins Power Generation, a business unit of Cummins Inc. Each year Frost &...

Kubota Approves B5 Use.
December 11, 2006... Staff Kubota Tractor Corporation (KTC) announced November 1 that it had approved the use of "B5" biodiesel (5-percent biodiesel and 95-percent petroleum diesel) fuels in specified Kubota diesel-powered products. The manufacturer urged...

Trimble Acquires XYZ Solutions.
December 11, 2006... Staff Trimble announced November 2 that it had acquired privately held XYZ Solutions, Inc., of Alpharetta, Ga., in an all-cash transaction. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. XYZ Solutions provides real-time,...

AEM Elects 2007 Officers, Directors.
December 11, 2006... Staff Dennis Eagan , group president of Industrial Power and Equipment of Blount Inc. in Zebulon, N.C., has been elected 2007 chairman of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), the North American-based international trade group...

Contamination Cleanup.(General Excavating)
December 11, 2006... By Curt Grandia General Excavating Meets Unique Challenges of Remediation While all projects requiring large excavations present challenges, environmental remediation projects may be among the trickiest for the unknowns that...

Acid Staining for Concrete Floors.(Ayars & Ayars)
December 11, 2006... By Curt Grandia Ayars & Ayars Forms Crews To Handle New Flooring Alternative A technique for dressing up concrete floors that is relatively new to the Midwest is providing an alternative to floor coverings, particularly for commercial...

Rental Availability Keys Project.
December 11, 2006... By Curt Grandia Waste Management Final Caps A Portion of Rolling Meadows Facility To hear Waste Management District Manager Randy Boehmke tell it, the final capping of a 10-acre portion of the Rolling Meadows Recycling and Disposal...

AASHTO Elects Rahn VP.(American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials appoints Pete Rahn )(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... Staff The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in November elected Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) Director Pete Rahn its vice president. As AASHTO vice president, Rahn will serve alongside...

Sunderland Elected PCA Chairman.
December 25, 2006... Staff Charlie Sunderland, of Ash Grove Cement Company, headquartered in Overland Park, Kan., in November was elected chairman of the Portland Cement Association (PCA) board of directors. Sunderland will serve a two-year term as PCA...

Missouri Lets Largest Road Project.
December 25, 2006... Staff The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission in November selected the contractor for the largest highway project in Missouri history and the first design-build project for the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT). ...

NDOR Needs To Outpace Revenue.(Nebraska Department of Roads)(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... Staff According to the Nebraska Department of Roads (NDOR) 2006 State Highway Needs Assessment, needs on the state's highway system will outpace revenues by about $5.7 billion over the next 20 years. In the report released in November,...

Editor's Report.(transportation system)(Editorial)
December 25, 2006... By Curt Grandia How do we best meet the growing needs of our deteriorating transportation system, particularly in the face of skyrocketing costs for materials? In recent testimony before the National Surface Transportation Policy and...

One Site, Two Projects.(River City Construction)(Boone Hospital Medical Plaza)
December 25, 2006... By Curt Grandia River City Construction Meets All Challenges At Columbia's Boone Hospital Medical Plaza Rock removal, concrete design, and working in a tight, urban construction site... River City Construction is overcoming these and...

Safe And Sound Moves Forward.
December 25, 2006... By Curt Grandia Four Contractor Teams Compete For Missouri Bridge Improvement Program Missouri's Safe & Sound Bridge Improvement Program to improve more than 800 bridges by the end of 2012 is progressing according to plan. The...