Midwest Contractor articles from February 2006

Midwest Contractor archives from February 2006

ABC Awards.
February 13, 2006... Staff Local Chapter Honors Best Projects, Names Craft Championship Winners The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Heart of America Chapter presented its 2005 "Excellence in Construction" Awards Dec. 1 during an annual awards...

NPHQ Spotlights Best-in-Field.
February 13, 2006... Staff Missouri Department of Transportation Director Pete Rahn gave the keynote speech for highway experts at the National Partnership for Highway Quality (NPHQ) 2005 Quality Conference Dec. 13-14 in Orlando, Fla. In his speech, Rahn...

RMS Analyzes Risk, TRIA Impact.
February 13, 2006... Staff Risk Management Solutions (RMS) recently performed a number of analyses for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to assess the absolute risk of terrorism and quantify how the terms of the December 2005 renewal of the Terrorism Risk...

FHWA Lauds Kansas Program.
February 13, 2006... Staff With more than 650,000 acres of right of way along Kansas roadways, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) plays a major role in conservation practices to protect endangered species, preserve wetland areas and ensure that...

Fabick Appoints Jackson.
February 13, 2006... Staff The Fabick Cat board of directors recently announced the appointment of Keith Jackson to the position of vice president, Earthmoving. Jackson joined Fabick in 2002 as business development manager for Fabick Power Systems, Inc.,...

HECO Acquires Flow Boy.
February 13, 2006... Staff Highway Equipment Company (HECO), the leading manufacturer of highway maintenance equipment and multi-purpose agricultural spreaders, in December completed its acquisition of the Flow Boy Manufacturing division of Dan Hill and...

Power Climber Adds Kinney.
February 13, 2006... Staff Power Climber, a division of Safe-Works, LLC, recently announced the addition of Teresa Kinney in the newly created position of Midwest Regional Sales Manager. Kinney will service existing customers, develop new distribution...

Topcon Increases Satellite Access.
February 13, 2006... Staff Users of Topcon Positioning Systems GPS+ technology can now access three additional GLONASS satellites following a Christmas Day launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Topcon GPS+ is the only dual frequency...

Blastrac, United Rentals Partner.(Brief Article)
February 13, 2006... Staff Blastrac is partnering with United Rentals to provide surface preparation equipment to its rental customers. Blastrac is exiting its own rental channel and instead will direct its rental customers to new rental channel partners such...

Vermeer, Netafim Set Alliance.(marketing alliance )(Brief Article)
February 13, 2006... Staff Vermeer Manufacturing Company and Netafim Irrigation, Inc. have announced a marketing alliance that they say will offer innovative solutions to the subsurface irrigation industry. Under the agreement, Netafim will develop and...

Land Detectives.
February 13, 2006... By Steve Houston Midwest Testing provides insightful, accurate environmental and geotechnical assessment of land Travelers along Interstate 55 between St. Louis and Springfield, Ill., will encounter a quick series of about a dozen dips...

Editor's Report.
February 13, 2006... By Curt Grandia The holidays were fine, great even. I got to see and spend time with family and friends, some of whom I hadn't seen for too long. But then we got to 2006 and, well, let's just say that the New Year didn't begin very...

CP Tech Center Launched.
February 13, 2006... Staff The National Concrete Pavement Technology Center (CP Tech Center) commemorated its official launch recently with a signing ceremony and board meeting. The American Concrete Paving Association (ACPA) was a driving force in the...

Smoother, Safer, Sooner In Missouri.(Pace Constructors Inc. leased equipments from Ingersoll Equipment Co. for road construction)
February 13, 2006... By Dan and Gini McKain Pace tackles projects under Smooth Roads Initiative In November 2004, Missouri voters approved Constitutional Amendment 3 which redirected some existing highway fees to the Missouri Department of Transportation...

Teahan Leads Builders' Association.
February 27, 2006... Staff Mark R. Teahan has been named 2006 chairman of the board of The Builders' Association. He joined the board as an assistant chairman in January 1999 and has been an officer since 2002. Teahan succeeds Donald R. Pearce, president or...

KDOT Announces LPP Projects.(Kansas Department of Transportation)(Local Partnership Program)(Brief Article)
February 27, 2006... Staff The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) Jan. 20 announced the selection of 24 Local Partnership Program (LPP) projects designed to enhance economic development opportunities and improve safety in communities across the state....

Set MoDOT Spending Priorities.
February 27, 2006... Staff If you could direct the spending for Missouri's transportation system, how would you prioritize those expenditures? A new online simulation provides that opportunity. A funding allocation game on the Missouri Department of...

USGBC Honors Alberici.(United States, Green Building Council)(Alberici Corp.)(Brief Article)
February 27, 2006... Staff With more than 200 employees and special guests gathered in the front atrium of Alberici's new headquarters in St. Louis, U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) President and CEO S. Frederick Fedrizzi Jan. 30 presented Alberici...

WoC Largest Ever.
February 27, 2006... Staff The 2006 World of Concrete (WoC) was the largest in the show's 32-year history with more than 80,000 attendees and 1,800-plus exhibitors covering more than 800,000 square feet of exhibit space. The show offered something for...

Editor's Report.
February 27, 2006... By Curt Grandia little bit about a lot of things... According to an analysis by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), materials used for highway and street construction have increased in cost 22 percent over...

Wrecking Blue Ridge Mall.
February 27, 2006... By Curt Grandia Jim Kidwell Construction Tackles Its First Major Demolition Project For Jim Kidwell Construction Corp., of Greenwood, Mo., the keys to success on a project and in the excavation/grading and demolition business in...

"Rock Breaker" Expands Business.
February 27, 2006... By Curt Grandia Mobile Jaw Crusher Provides Versatility, Improves Efficiency In only about a dozen years, Greg Bair Track Hoe Service, Inc., of Overland Park, Kan., has grown from two track hoes and one employee to 20 track hoes and...

AGCI Hosts 84th Convention.(Associated General Contractors of Iowa)
February 27, 2006... By Curt Grandia Three Named To Hall of Fame, Two Receive Achievement Awards Among the highlights of its 84th State Convention held Jan. 11-13 in Des Moines, the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Iowa inducted three new members...