Excavators

Cat Kicks 307B Into High Gear With New Buckets, Swing Boom →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Caterpillar 307B hydraulic excavator with an operating weight of between 6,500 kilograms (14,330 lbs.) and 8,418 kilograms (18,555 lbs.) and 40 kilowatt (54 hp) is the company’s newest entry to the B-Series line. Caterpillar maintained the successful 300 family design concept and added customer requested improvements. The 307B maintains the high approval of the 307 while adding several new features and attachments that significantly add to the machines’ performance and operator comfort: Swing Boom. Click for more...

Wadsworth Golf Construction Caddies 18 Holes for Maryland’s Hyatt Resort →

From Construction Equipment Guide... All work and no play makes conference attendees dull boys and girls. Fortunately for them, when Hyatt Hotels’ latest resort complex is completed conferees and other guests will be able to avail themselves of a number of relaxing amenities, including a health spa and the opportunity to play golf on an l8-hole championship level course. Hyatt’s Chesapeake Bay resort is being built on a 342-acre site on the Choptank River in Cambridge, MD. Click for more...

Erosion Control Job Helps Save Pennsylvania Creek →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Excavating contractors and conservation officers are working together to solve the problem of soil-eroding and flooding creeks in a unique project that is under way in northeastern Pennsylvania and may serve as a model for similar projects around the country. Using the concept of fluvial geomorphology, in which erosion-causing sediment build up on the creek bed is eliminated by redirecting the water flow back into its original course at the center of the bed, the project is transforming the 20-mi. Click for more...

Contractor Takes On New Jersey Muck With ’Solar’ Power →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Take some New Jersey muck by the side of a river, add some concrete pilings, sift the dirt to remove debris, rearrange things a little bit, and watch as townhouses spring up in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge. That is exactly what is happening along the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, in Edgewater, Bergen County, directly across from Manhattan. In Edgewater and neighboring towns, thanks to the booming economy, homebuilders are busy in an area that was once just barren land. Click for more...

Biggest Turnpike Expansion in Five Decades Takes $2.6B Toll →

It’s the biggest expansion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike System since the l950s, during which the Turnpike’s northeastern, eastern and western extensions were constructed. When the massive Mon-Fayette Expressway is completed and opens as SR-43 it will extend north from I-68 near Morgantown, WV, through the Uniontown and Brownsville areas and the Monongahela River Valley to I-376 near Pittsburgh, PA. “The Mon-Fayette Expressway is actually composed of four separate, localized projects that would interconnect to form a continuous, 65-mi. Click for more...

Mennonite Campus Site Brings Local Contractors Together in Good Faith →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When B. R. Kreider & Sons was approached about performing the excavating work for the Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) five acre (2 hectare) Orientation Campus in Akron, Lancaster County, PA, the firm did what comes naturally and called on friends and competitors for help. Excavating work on the $4-million project is being performed by five different contractors: Allgyer Excavating Inc., of Womelsdorf, Berks County, and four Lancaster County firms: Andrews Excavating of Willow Street, Flyway Excavating of Lititz, D.H. Click for more...

Expansion Project Takes Off at New Hampshire Airport →

From Construction Equipment Guide... New Hampshire’s largest airport, located in the city of Manchester, is midway through a $320-million rejuvenation project. As part of an improvement project that began in 1993 with the construction of a new terminal building, the airport, located about 64 kilometers (40 mi.) north of Boston, MA, is to be completed in 2005. The airport also will boast new taxiways, taxi bridges, a 4,800 space parking facility, an Airfield Rescue and Fire Fighting Building, a private air terminal and two runway extension projects. According to Richard Fixler, assistant airport director of engineering and planning the runway extension projects were needed to bring the runways into Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) compliance. Click for more...

Pennsylvania Contractor Needs Hip Waders for Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When the city of Roanoke and its partners — Roanoke County and the city of Salem — bid to replace the Roanoke River interceptor two years ago, only three bids were received. The city tried again, this time receiving only two bids. However, what the pipeline industry viewed as an extremely difficult project to construct, Alex E. Paris Contracting Co. Inc. viewed as a challenge to be overcome. Based in Atlasburg, PA, Alex E. Click for more...

Worst Snowfall in Wake County’s History Smothers Multiple Sites →

From Construction Equipment Guide... More than 20 pieces of heavy equipment are back at work at some 82.2 hectares (203 acres) of former tobacco fields being prepared as the complex for a high school, an elementary school, a firehouse, and future library in an annexed rural area of the town of Cary in Wake County, NC. Work was stopped at the overall project by the worst snowstorm in Wake County history when two feet of snow smothered the ground and equipment, including conduits, piping and foundation blocks. Click for more...

Mid South Drilling Has a Blast With Concord Mills Job Site →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Jeff Seaford started the 1990s driving a low-boy truck for a contractor. He ended the decade as general manager of a rock removal firm owned and operated by himself, his father and his brother. Now the new century is beginning as brightly as the old one ended: Mid South Drilling has a year’s work already lined up. “It’s all about service,” Seaford said in explaining the success of the company that turned two years old in late January. Click for more...

Water Theme Park Paves the Way for Bargain Hunters →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When VisionLand amusement park opened its doors almost two years ago, all eyes were on the giant wooden roller coaster and thrilling water rides. Now, CMC President Colin Coyne is hoping to make a splash with an adjacent 18,580-square- meter (200,000 sq. ft.) outlet center that’s currently under construction 16 miles southwest of Birmingham, AL. Site preparation for VisionLand Outlet Center (which is scheduled to open Labor Day Weekend 2000) began last July, with the clearing of trees and general cleanup. Click for more...

Las Vegas Wins Big With Interstate 15 Expansion →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Las Vegas just keeps on growing, and that means its roadways have to keep growing too. The Nevada Department of Transportation recently awarded the $33.7-million contract to Morrison Knudsen to widen a portion of Interstate 15 to accommodate the ever-rising number of vehicles. The contract is for a 1.5-mi. (2.4 km) section, stretching from Sahara Avenue to Charleston Boulevard, near the city’s downtown area. Click for more...

Nevada Cashes in With $300M Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When there’s only road that travels through town, it’s inevitable that traffic will be a nightmare. It’s safe to bet that Carson City, NV, drivers don’t look forward to encountering some 40,000 cars that travel U.S. 395 through the center of the city each day. About 20 years ago, it was envisioned that a freeway would be needed to bypass the city, and also take off some of the heavy truck traffic, said Scott Magruder, public information officer, Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT). Click for more...

Airport Site Requires Delicate Maneuvering by Teer Crews →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The airport serving the Raleigh-Durham, NC, area is sprawled on acreage between two east-west highways that funnel traffic to it and past it. Interstate 40 on the south and NC Hwy. 70 on the north are clogged with vehicles at least twice a day Hundreds of those that veer off the main flow of traffic enter airport authority property and go … where? Some, of course, drop off or pick up passengers of airlines that fly planes in and out of the airport. Click for more...

Wet Weather Bogs Down Smith Gap Landfill Crew →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Branch Highways of Roanoke, VA, has begun work on a $1.42-million project expanding the Smith Gap Regional Landfill (Phase III/ IV, liner system and sediment basin No. 3) located in Roanoke County in southwestern Virginia. Branch Highways is adding seven additional cells that will cover a total of 2.8 hectares (7 acres). The first cell will be ready for use by May 31; remaining cells will be operational by June 30. Click for more...

Utilities Hinder Efforts of DOT Crews in Jefferson County →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Department of Transportation crews in Jefferson County, AL, are dealing with a major delay as they widen Alabama 75 from Center Point to Pinson, just outside Birmingham. Based on an increasing traffic flow, the project involves expanding the roadway from two to five lanes. Work began in June of 1998 and most likely won’t be completed until December, 2000. “The main problem with this job is that the utilities are in the way. Click for more...

APAC Takes on Dirty Work for Manassas Wetlands Creation →

From Construction Equipment Guide... To build a road and bridges, you have to move some dirt. To complete the Manassas, VA Route 234 bypass, APAC-Virginia has to move a lot of dirt — about 2 million yds. (1.8 million m) — some of it part of wetlands. “The idea was that when we constructed the bypass, we would be filling in wetlands, where there were beaver dams, and other things you find in wetlands, so we excavated to create additional wetlands.” said Wallace Alphin, vice president for APAC, the company which won the contract to complete the bypass. Click for more...

Pernas Eliminates Blasting Problem With Help From Deere’s Iron Giant →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In Dade County, FL, contractors cannot blast in order to form the man-made lakes needed for drainage in every new development, “unless it’s two miles away from residential areas, and that never happens,” according to Delfin Pernas, owner, with his brother Carlos Pernas, of Persant Construction Co. of Miami. So Persant became the first company in Florida to purchase a John Deere 750 LC excavator from the newly formed Nortrax Equipment Company, according to Jaime Pineiro manager of Nortrax’s Miami branch. Click for more...

Birmingham Tees Off for 2001 Senior PGA Tour at Legacy →

From Construction Equipment Guide... It promises to be a premier attraction for Birmingham, AL: a championship 18-hole, par-72 golf course designed by world renowned architect Rees Jones. The Legacy at Greystone (the site of next year’s Senior PGA tour) will be ready for play this summer after more than a year of construction. "This was a high-end project for us. The golf business means a lot of specialty work. As the general contractor, we definitely had plenty to do," said Scott Veazey, owner of Southeastern Golf in Tifton, GA. Click for more...

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