ARTBA is hosting a July 16 event in the Nation’s Capital for transportation advocates to gather “best practices” and learn “playbook secrets” that were critical to the recent success of high-profile road, bridge and public transit funding victories in several key states.
Read MoreMonth: May 2014
Construction Materials Prices Increase
Overall construction materials prices increased 0.4 percent in April and are up 1.5 percent year over year, according to the May 14 Producer Price Index released by the U.S. Department of Labor. Nonresidential construction material prices were up 0.5 percent for the month and are 1.4 percent higher than the same time last year.
Read MoreSurvey States Case for Infrastructure Investment
Global competitiveness and economic and job growth are all severely imperiled by the United States’ collapsing transportation infrastructure, overwhelming numbers of business leaders say in a survey conducted by Building America’s Future and the U.S. Travel Association.
Read MoreCarmeuse Fuel Project Earns International Award
Carmeuse’s alternative fuel project at its Grand River, Ohio, operation has earned the “Outstanding Alternative Fuel Project” award at the 8th Global CemFuels 2014 Conference, held in Vienna, Austria, at the end of February.
Read MoreSteady Growth Ahead
May 27, 2014 – Although recent economic indicators point to a tempering of the U.S. economy, The Portland Cement Association (PCA) is maintaining its forecast for steady growth in construction and cement consumption during the next five years. A recent PCA forecast indicates a 7.9 percent increase in cement consumption for 2014, almost double from the 4.5 increase in 2013.
Read MoreMark Helm
Dolese CEO Mark Helm at Dolese’s Midtown Batch Plant in Oklahoma City, Monday May 19, 2014. Photo By Steve Gooch, The Oklahoman Mark Helm, CEO of Dolese Bros, sat down recently with The Oklahoman to talk about his life and career in the aggregates industry. Read the interview here. Congratulations, Mark, you are a Rock Star.
Read MoreRock Products Hires Kyle Nichol
Mining Media International (MMI) is pleased to announce that Kyle Nichol has joined the staff of Rock Products and C&D World magazines as a regional sales manager. Nichol is a familiar name to many in the industry from a previous tenure with Pit & Quarry and Portable Plants & Equipment magazines, where he worked as an editor before making a successful transition to sales and marketing. Nichol has also…
Read MoreWRRDA Report Approved by House
The U.S. House of Representatives approved the conference report on water resources legislation by a vote of 412 to 4. Six months of intense negotiations between House and Senate conferees produced a bipartisan bill aimed at reforming and streamlining an outdated bureaucracy, increasing flexibility for public-private investment and eliminating earmarks. The Senate may vote on the conference report by the…
Read MoreKey Senate Committee Passes Transportation Bill
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously approved S.2322, the MAP-21 Reauthorization Act, a long-term bipartisan bill to reauthorize the nation’s transportation programs for six years at current funding plus inflation, illustrating broad bipartisan support for passage by the full Senate.
Read MoreCASE Brings Dire States Tour to Washington, D.C.
CASE Construction Equipment brought the Dire States tour to Washington, D.C., for Infrastructure Week 2014, a series of events designed to “explore emerging solutions, innovative approaches and best practices being developed nationwide to modernize aging infrastructure.”
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