Between The Locks

The Sault Locks, in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, provide passage for an average of 10,000 ships per year, only shutting down during the winter...

Fabric Cladding Meets Steel Frame

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has added a new facility for winter de-icing operations and salt storage in Wabash, Indiana. The new tension...

12,000 Hours Logged: Crawler crane supplied two boring machines in non-stop...

By Casey C. Smith A Link-Belt 250-ton 298 HSL lattice crawler crane has logged nearly 12,000 hours at the East Side Access jobsite located in...

Recreating the Real Thing: Zoo’s arctic animal area takes shape...

Located in the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the Journey to Churchill exhibit located in the 11-acre Arctic Animal area began in...

Exceptional Surface: Pavers create supersmooth pavement on Texas highway

In late August 2012, a pair of Super 2100-2 pavers from Vögele was attaining astonishingly smooth placements of hot-mix asphalt on segments 5 and...

Flagship Building

Structural insulated panels used for Manhattan fire stations. Mike Gibson of Murray & Sons Construction was the contractor on the Manhattan, Kansas, fire stations 3...

Overhaulin’ the Roads

Full-depth reclamation strengthens rural roads for heavy-truck traffic. Drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus shale region of northern Pennsylvania has increased traffic of heavy...

25 Feet in the Deep

If the saying goes, “The whole is more than the sum of its parts,” then all those parts must absolutely be important in creating...

Curbing Impediments to Efficiency

A recent retrofit of a parking lot on the West Virginia University campus in Morgantown, West Virginia, was anything but ordinary. To do the...

Take it from me…

PART 2: Lessons learned using insulating concrete form construction In the previous issue, a contractor began their first Insulating Concrete Forms (ICF) construction project, and...