Senate Considers Closing Highway Fund Gap
The House overwhelmingly (387-37) passed legislation (H.R. 6532) to transfer more than $8 billion to the Highway Trust Fund, in part to cover a projected...
Missouri Student Receives Wendt Memorial Scholorship
Joseph W. Roth, a senior at Missouri University of Science & Technology, has received the 11th annual Barry K. Wendt Memorial Scholarship from the National...
Demand for Additives to Reach $3.2 Billion
Demand for cement and concrete additives in the United States will grow 6.4% per year to $3.2 billion in 2012. These and other trends are presented in...
MSHA Prevails In Case Of Suspended Load Fatality
A Pennsylvania quarry operator lost its quest to have a high negligence, S&S citation vacated after its supervisor was killed in a crane-related accident....
AEM: Nation In Dire Need Of Infrastructure Repair
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers has called for support of H.R. 3999, the National Highway Bridge Reconstruction and Inspection Act. In a letter...
Report Shows Decline In Construction Jobs
The total number of highway and bridge construction workers nationwide fell 2.4% in May 2008 compared to the same month last year, according to a report...
PCA Predicts Fewer 2008 Housing Starts
Recent economic data reinforces Portland Cement Association's outlook for continued declines in housing starts, according to a PCA Flash Report. Weak...
House Drops $8 Billion Trust Fund Provision
The House of Representatives has dropped a provision that would have provided an $8 billion fix to restore solvency to the Highway Trust Fund. Road funding...
Pervious Concrete Demos Planned
Demonstrations of pervious (porous) concrete placement and 3D paving will highlight the American Society of Concrete Contractors' Annual Conference, to...
Environmental Group Wants More Enhancement Funding
Defenders of Wildlife is urging other environmental groups to more aggressively pursue federal funding for transportation enhancement activities authorized...
Great Lakes Dredging Crisis Continues: LCA
Iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes remained strong during June 2008. Loadings totaled 6.4 million net tons, an increase of 2.6% compared to both a...
Dredging Supply Wins New Orleans Contract
The Port of New Orleans has awarded Dredging Supply Co., Reserve, La., a contract to dredge port facilities along the Mississippi River. DSC's new 24-inch...
Green Training for Construction Industry
The National Center for Construction Education and Research, Gainesville, Fla., has partnered with the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia...
$1 million released for Iowa road and bridge repair
The federal government is making $1 million available immediately in emergency relief funds for Iowa to help pay for urgent repairs to roads and bridges damaged by floods, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters announced today. ...
PCA: Outlook Remains Grim for Housing
Recent economic data reinforces Portland Cement Association’s outlook for continued declines in housing starts, according to a PCA Flash Report....
Road Funding Takes Another Beating
The House of Representatives has dropped a provision that would have provided an $8-billion fix to restore solvency to the Highway Trust Fund's. Road funding also continues to take a beating as fewer gallons are consumed and legislators propose suspending fuel taxes....
Flexco Expands Its Grand Rapids Plant
Flexco has expanded its Grand Rapids, Mich., facility to accommodate new products and enhance customer service. Flexco Grand Rapids, previously known...
NSSGA Endorses Campaign to Upgrade U.S. Infrastructure
The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association has announced its support for the Americans for Transportation Mobility coalition's FasterBetterSafer campaign...
Cement Production to Reach 3.4 Billion Tons
Global production of cement is estimated at 2.7 billion tons in 2007 and should reach 3.4 billion tons by 2010, according to a report from Materials Technology...
New Award to Honor Hearing Loss Initiatives
NIOSH and the National Hearing Conservation Association have established an award to be given each year to companies or organizations that exemplify Excellence...
May Construction Starts Hold Steady
At a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $557.8 billion, new construction starts in May were essentially unchanged from April, according to McGraw-Hill...
Congress Helps Cemex Settle California Battle
A decade-long legal wrangle over a California aggregates project appears closer to resolution, thanks to a rare agreement among the battling parties. But...
New Web Site for new Trade Show AGG 1
Lafarge Acquires TXI Louisiana Operations
Lafarge has completed the purchase of the southeastern Louisiana sand and gravel assets of Texas Industries Inc. (TXI). The acquisition consists of four sand and gravel pits, allowing Lafarge to enter the southeastern Louisiana aggregates market....
Lafarge Wins EPA Award
Lafarge’s Aggregates SE business unit, based in Douglasville, Georgia, has been named one of only four winners nationwide of the 2008 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Performance Track award for “environmental achievements above and beyond legal requirements,” and the only winner in the Small Facility award category....
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