Excavators

I-80 Job on Track, Despite Undercutting →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The 7-mi. (11.3 km) refurbishment of I-80 between Yarnell and Bellefonte in Pennsylvania is running on schedule, despite extensive undercutting because of clay and other fine materials. The project began on Feb. 28, 2005, with the westbound lanes and is expected to wrap up by Nov. 22, 2006, with the completion of the eastbound lanes. “This section of I-80 was built in mid- to late-60s. The original embankment fills were constructed mostly of rock until the last few feet to subgrade. Click for more...

Sound Barriers Added to Sawgrass Expressway →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Concrete noise wall panels are being lowered and locked into place between H-post after H-post along an approximately 7-mi. stretch of Southwest Florida’s Sawgrass Expressway. The Sawgrass, a section of the 312-mi. (502 km) Florida Turnpike system, between the turnpike’s southern interchanges and Interstate 75, is being widened in two phases from four to six lanes to accommodate the ever-increasing traffic flow along the road otherwise known as state Route 869. Click for more...

Demolition Crew Scraps Deserted Utah Steel Town →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In January 2004, Grant Mackay Demolition won the largest contract in all demolitiondom, the dismantling of Geneva Steel in nearby Orem, UT. Geneva is an aged metropolis of 1,800 acres of gray- and rust-colored metal, concrete and I-beams. The former Geneva Steel Works is now a ghost town, where 1940s postwar buildings are lined up in rows throughout the complex. Signs abound, some instructional: “Hard Hats To Be Worn At All Times.” Some identifying: “Building 73.”Nearby, Josh Mackay rips through the metal infrastructure with a Hitachi EX1200 excavator. Click for more...

Nuclear Power Plant Goes Up in Smoke →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Ten years into a decommissioning process that will likely continue for two more decades, the Trojan Nuclear Plant cooling tower in Rainer, OR, was imploded at 7 a.m. on May 21. Crowds of onlookers, including a large constituency of former plant employees, watched from a dock in Kalama, WA, directly across the Columbia River from the plant. In partnership with Portland General Electric (PGE), Controlled Demolition Inc. Click for more...

State Line Machine Celebrates 40 Years in Business →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When heavy equipment fails and costly downtime looms, someone must be available to repair diesel engines or hydraulic systems, weld, or rebuild undercarriages. Fulton S. Owensby recognized this fact in the early 1960s and sought to be that person. For the past 40 years the Wilmington, DE-based company has been working to keep its customers’ equipment — from airport snow plows to Army Corps dozers — up and running. Click for more...

EastCoast Reduces Fuel Consumption While Juggling 14 Jobs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... EastCoast General Contractors Inc., a large general contractor based in Massachusetts, is a juggler. Just as a juggler is able to manipulate several objects and keep them in motion, so too can EastCoast Contractors keep several projects in motion at the same time. EastCoast Contractors serves the northeastern United States with its general contracting company as well as its excavation division and currently, it is juggling 14 different job sites. Click for more...

Made-to-Order Rigs Key to $150M Dey Street Job →

Two Davey Kent model 515 mini-pile drilling rigs and a Bauer BG-40 from Germany were all made-to-order rigs to meet the construction challenges of the $150-million Dey Street Concourse structural box project now under way in lower Manhattan. The design-build project, which began August 2005 and is the second of five contracts, called for the construction of at least a 1,000-ft. (304.8 m) long underground pedestrian passageway that will link (approximately 500 ft. Click for more...

Doosan Infracore Showcases New Products in Manalapan →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Doosan Infracore made its third stop on a nationwide tour in Manalapan, NJ, May 10, to launch its new DX Series of excavators and DL Series of wheel loaders. The event began with a slide presentation at the Ramada Inn in East Windsor, NJ, by Chad Ellis, training and product manager, assisted by Brian Sheely, Southeast Regional sales manager of Doosan. Following lunch at Staybridge Suites in Cranbury, NJ, the invited dealers and contractors met at the dig site in Manalapan, hosted by Hoffman Equipment of Piscataway, NJ. Click for more...

Campus Overhaul a Lesson in Teamwork →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) campus in Little Rock has begun $265 million in campus expansion projects. It is one of the most expensive construction efforts in Arkansas since the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigational System was built in the 1960s. It started as two smaller, but separate jobs, said Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson. “Our existing hospital was built in the 1950s and is inadequate for meeting our patient care, education, research and community outreach missions in the future. Click for more...

Born to Ruin - CDI Razes Asbury Park Eyesore →

From Construction Equipment Guide... It took weeks of planning, but in a mere 14 seconds, the 12-story, steel-frame remains of an abandoned, uncompleted condominium building known as C-8 in Asbury Park, NJ, came crashing down. “It’s about time,” said Kenny Wilson, of Asbury Park, passing by on his morning jog three days prior to the implosion. “It’s been up there too long. It’s an eyesore, you know?”In 1986, C-8 was part of a $500-million redevelopment project that was never completed because its developers went bankrupt. Click for more...

John Deere Goes to Work For Ohio Excavating Firm →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Started more than 65 years ago as a gravel hauling company, Miller Bros. Excavating has grown to one of the top earthmovers in Ohio. The firm branched into excavating in 1942 and has continued to expand, providing services to residential and commercial customers in a 70-mi. radius around Dayton. However, there is such a thing as becoming too big. With approximately 110 pieces of equipment and more than 100 trucks, the size of Miller’s fleet and equipment has grown to the point where it risked outgrowing the lower end of the earthmoving market — the farm ponds and gas stations. Click for more...

Green Bay Contractor Packs in Pipeline →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A consortium of six Green Bay, WI, suburban communities recently let bids to build a 65-mi. long raw-water pipeline from Ledgeview, WI, to a treatment plant on Lake Michigan in Manitowoc, WI. The huge pipe-installation project is divided into separate contracts, where each contractor is responsible for installing sections of the pipeline in different locations along the path which runs through portions of Brown and Manitowoc counties. Click for more...

Cranes Kept Busy at NC Phosphorus Reduction Plant →

Two Link-Belt rough-terrain cranes played a key role in the $29-million McAlpine Creek WWMF Phosphorus Reduction project in Pineville, NC. According to Geoff Doyle, a project manager of Atlantic Skanska Inc., the Atlanta-based general contractor, a Link-Belt 8050 and a Link-Belt 8070, each a rough-terrain crane leased from Atlantic & Southern of Atlanta, were used to set chemical tanks, pumps, sludge processing equipment and precast concrete water sample stations throughout the 1-sq.-mi. Click for more...

Enormous Project to Create Bypass Into State’s ’Heart’ →

From Construction Equipment Guide... On one stretch of road that serves as a merging point for Georgia State Route 316 and Interstate 85 South, in Lawrenceville, GA — the county seat for the sprawling Gwinnett County — the daily scene, at any given time, often resembles the final laps of a NASCAR race. Roughly 260,000 cars per day constantly fight for pole position on this main artery in and out of Atlanta, forcing drivers to merge into the left lane of traffic when merging onto I-85 south toward Atlanta, from state Route 316 West in Lawrenceville. Click for more...

Citrus Canker Sparks Projects for Florida Contractor →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In a place where citrus groves once dominated the landscape all the way to the horizon, coconut palm saplings and sprawling subdivisions are now sprouting up. On the western edge of Vero Beach, FL, Joe Massagee, vice president of Heavy Equipment Services (HES) drives his truck through a decontamination spray on the way to one of the company’s work sites. “The citrus canker destroyed most of the orchards in the area,” Massagee said. Click for more...

Scurry Sails Through Carolina Lakes Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... As a teenager, President Andrew Jackson fought the British in the woods around his home in what now is Lancaster County, SC. Later, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops burned their way through the area. Were Sherman to return, he probably would do so as a retiree (perhaps in disguise, as his first visit wasn’t popular) to buy a lot in the first Del Webb Sun City retirement community in the central Carolinas. Click for more...

Equipment Gamble Pays Off for Upscale TX Storm Sewer Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Every year, millions of people travel to Las Vegas with hopes of finding their fortune in cash. Utility Contractor Connard Barker made that same trip to Vegas in early 2005, but instead of easy money, he was looking for a solution to a job-site challenge he was facing in Texas. To borrow an obvious Las Vegas cliche, Barker “hit the jackpot” at ConExpo-Con/AGG when he discovered the Volvo EW180B rubber-tired excavator. Click for more...

Averill Park Septic Service Builds on Family Ties →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When David Lobdell started his business in 1984, his equipment inventory consisted of only a small dozer, a Kubota tractor backhoe loader and a single axle dump. In those days, the company’s market area consisted primarily of Rensselaer and parts of Columbia and Albany counties in New York. “My primary interest was in expanding the excavation side of the company,” said Lobdell, “but unfortunately expanding it called for large investments in equipment.”To accomplish this, Lobdell had to expand his company gradually. Click for more...

DeFoe Takes Charge on Port Authority Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... DeFoe Corp. is quietly making good progress on a $46-million bus ramps and triple bridges rehabilitation project for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Launched March 7, 2002, the project, under the auspices of Mount Vernon, NY-based general contractor, DeFoe Corp., included the removal of an existing concrete bridge deck and replacing it with precast concrete slabs in 11 spans, according to DeFoe’s Project Manager, Dave Amato. Click for more...

Rogers Trailer Hauls in Big Savings for NJ’s Stone Industries →

When Stone Industries Inc. began shopping for a new lowboy trailer, it knew that versatility would be the main criteria in their decision. “Our business is multifunctional,” explained John Ciampo, of Stone Industries. “We manufacture crushed stone, sand and asphalt. We accept concrete and asphalt for recycling, and operate a Supply Center for decorative stone, landscaping and masonry needs. Click for more...

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