Midwest Contractor articles from July 2008

Midwest Contractor archives from July 2008

Iowa Rail Infrastructure Hammered By Spring Floods.
July 14, 2008... Staff The railroad infrastructure in flood-ravaged areas of the state has been hit particularly hard this spring, says the Iowa Dept. of Transportation (Iowa DOT). The department has received reports of major railroad bridges either...

People.(appointments of American Builders and Contractors Supply Company Inc.)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... Staff ABC Supply Co. Inc. has promoted Jeff Durr and Stan Miller to managing partner. Durr is manager of ABC Supply's Springfield, MO, store. He joined ABC Supply in 1998 and was named manager of the Springfield branch in 2004. Miller is...

Iowa Roadway Information By Phone.(Public notice)
July 14, 2008... Staff In response to the widespread flooding and damage of Iowa highways during June, Iowa's Dept. of Transportation set up a temporary toll-free telephone number to help Iowans seeking information about road damage and travel routes. The...

Council Waives Permit Fees.(Omaha's city council)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... Staff Omaha's city council approved a measure to waive permit fees for reconstruction of storm-damaged homes and businesses at its meeting on June 10. The measure will be active for 60 days. Home and business owners will be required to...

Pipeline Project Likely.
July 14, 2008... Staff TransCanada will likely build a proposed $7-billion oil pipeline through eastern Nebraska to delivery points in Illinois and Oklahoma. The project will originate in Hardesty, Alberta, and extend to Port Arthur, Texas, with a...

Stadium Has Support.
July 14, 2008... Staff Omaha mayor Mike Fahey has an agreement with the NCAA to keep the College World Series in Omaha for the next 25 years. Now he has more support for a downtown ballpark. At a public hearing before the Omaha City Council, few residents...

Developer Revamps Buildings.
July 14, 2008... Staff Real Development Corp. began work on June 16 to renovate the lobby of the former SC Telcom Building, which has been renamed the Wichita Executive Centre. The Minneapolis-based company also continued plans to revamp the facade of...

Medical Center Expands.
July 14, 2008... Staff Olathe Medical Center is adding an advanced outpatient imaging center and new streets and walkways. Utilities and surface grading are under construction; roadwork will be completed in September. The northwest quadrant will have a...

College Undergoes Remodeling.(JAG Construction will be remodeling the Dodge City Community College math/science building)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... Staff JAG Construction will be remodeling the Dodge City Community College math/science building, adding two handicapped-accessible restrooms to the computer lab and installing two restrooms on the top level of the Student Union. Trustees...

Road Construction Affects Iowa Hwys. 376 And 12 Until November.
July 14, 2008... Staff Construction on Iowa Hwys. 376 and 12, already under way, will continue to affect traffic on those roads until November. Traffic has been switched to head-to-head the entire length of the bridge in the eastbound lanes since mid June,...

United Rentals Aerial Division Grand Opening.(United Rentals Inc.)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... Staff The relocated and expanded United Rentals aerial equipment branch in the Omaha metro area recently celebrated with a grand opening event at its 23232 Highway 6, Gretna location. United Rentals experts demonstrated new equipment...

Charting A Course.
July 14, 2008... By Vicki Speed Surveyors, real-estate specialists aid electrical transmission corridor planning As rural electric cooperatives continue to grow, transmission planners from Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association (Tri-State)...

Builders' Association to Relocate Administrative Headquarters.
July 28, 2008... Staff The Builders' Association, a nonprofit organization with over 1,000 members in the commercial construction industry, has announced it will relocate to the CourtView Building at 720 Oak Street in downtown, Kansas City, Missouri. The...

Jail Won't Meet Demands.(Design and construction of Jail)(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... Staff Consultants told Lancaster County, Nebraska, commissioners that the planned jail will fall short of what the county may need by 2020. Projections show the county will need 827 beds by then and 945 beds by 2025. The new jail, in...

Water Park Planned.
July 28, 2008... Staff Omaha's Parks Department has plans for a $4.2-million aquatic park at Zorinsky Lake Recreation Area. The city council approved $284,000 for Olsson Associates engineering to design the park, which will have pools with very slight...

Focus on Future Energy.
July 28, 2008... Staff Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson said Kansas must focus in-depth on energy issues after a 2007 request for air quality permit for two coal-fired plants were denied. Rod Bremby, the environmental regulator, denied the request because of carbon...

College Breaks Ground.
July 28, 2008... Staff Bethany College in Lindsborg broke ground on an addition to its Nelson Science Center, the third major campus project for this year. Construction began July 7 to increase the number of science labs from three to six, adding...

New Hotel, Office Park.
July 28, 2008... Staff An Embassy Suites and a conference center are planned in Olathe. John Q. Hammons Hotels and Resorts is planning the 11-story hotel with atrium-style interior, sports bar, Internet cafe, gift shop, fitness center, and a pool. The...

ADA Issues New Standards.(Disabilities Act)(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... Staff The Justice Department issued proposed regulations to revise Americans with Disabilities Act standards for accessibility in existing facilities, new construction and alterations. The ADA requires that architectural, transportation...

Bobcat of St. Louis Will Host the Bobcat Road Tour.
July 28, 2008... Staff The Bobcat Company 50 Years Unleashed North American Road Tour is a traveling exhibit that will visit 23 Bobcat dealers in 2008. The Bobcat Road Tour is a celebration of 50 years of the Bobcat loader, a machine that revolutionized...

Observation Tower at Nebraska Rail Yard Completed.
July 28, 2008... Staff After a decade of planning, a new $6-million observation tower has been completed in North Platte, NE, offering views from above the world's largest switching yard. The Golden Spike Tower and Visitor Center overlooks Union Pacific's...

Holland Construction Completes Ballwin, MO Walgreen's.
July 28, 2008... Staff Holland Construction Services, Inc. completed the new Walgreen's retail store in the eastern wing of West County's Central Plaza. Located at 15253 Manchester Road, the $2.6-million, 14,490-square-foot Walgreens retail location will...

Road Construction Project Affects Iowa 376 and 12.
July 28, 2008... Staff Traffic was switched to head-to-head for the entire length of the bridge in the eastbound lanes starting June 11 so the contractor could place new overlay on the bridge deck on the Iowa 12 Gordon Drive viaduct, according to Iowa...

Traffic Restrictions Scheduled On Interstate 80 And U.S. 71 Near Atlantic.(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... Staff According to the Iowa Department of Transportation's (Iowa DOT) Creston construction office, the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 near Atlantic were closed on June 30 to start replacing the bridges over U.S. 71 and the East...

Hertz Rental Opens In St. Peters, MO.
July 28, 2008... Staff Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation (HERC) recently celebrated the grand opening of its St. Peters, MO, General Rental facility. The event, which drew nearly 300 people, showcased the facility's showroom and product line, which...

Santa Fe Self Storage of Gardner, KS Goes Green.
July 28, 2008... Staff Santa Fe Self Storage Center, located at 1060 East Santa Fe, in Gardner, KS, has undergone an expansion and upgrade that doubled its size and created the first self storage in the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area built to...

SMSC Provides $1 Million Grant to Kickapoo Tribe for Administrative Center.(Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community )
July 28, 2008... Staff The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community announces a donation of $1 million to the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas for a new Administrative Center. The Center will house the tribal government and will feature a community meeting room and...

Missouri Town Needs $800 Million In Storm Water Improvements.(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... Staff While much of the Midwest grapples with how best to deal with 100-year floods, the city of Springfield, MO, worries about the more mundane storms that flood homes and float manhole covers. The city has identified some $800 million...

Dam Rebuild With Roller-Compacted Concrete.(AmerenUE)
July 28, 2008... Staff AmerenUE determined that the safest and most economical method of rebuilding the Upper Reservoir would be to use an RCC design In the early hours of December 14, 2005, high atop Proffit Mountain in the Missouri Ozarks, a...

Potholing With Vacuum Excavators.
July 28, 2008... By Greg Ehm, Technical Writer, Two Rivers Marketing Potholing utilities saves time and money, and vacuum excavator provides a non-destructive way to locate existing infrastructure Portable vacuum excavators have been a regular sight on...