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.
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CASE 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.”
Read MoreSenate Committee Touts Six-Year Transportation Bill
May 14 – According to the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA), leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released a bipartisan, six-year surface transportation bill May 12 that would maintain spending on federal-aid highways at current levels plus inflation.
Read MoreCrushing for Cubicity
Steve Pegler (sales manager, Elrus), Jason Macy (vice president of operations, Hawaiian Cement), Kevin Bohanon (sales manager, stationary crushing and screening, USA, Sandvik Construction). Hawala Quarry In Hawaii Has Come To Rely On Its VSI For Profitable Production. By Mark S. Kuhar The island of Oahu in Hawaii, headquarters of the United States Pacific Command and the state capital, Honolulu,…
Read MoreGrow America Act a Good Start
If the Foxx is guarding the henhouse, in this case it isn’t a bad thing.
Read MoreDry Quarry, Big Savings
Plant manager Randy Jones surveys the plant. LEHIGH HANSON USES DEWATERING TECHNOLOGY TO REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION AT AN INDIANA QUARRY. By Mark S. Kuhar Imagine 40 percent of your quarry’s total electricity consumption going to keep the pit dry because of the need to pump out ground water. This was the situation at Lehigh Hanson’s Harding Street quarry in 2012.…
Read MoreRinging the Alarm Bells
August 23, 2014 – The Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) has been ringing alarm bells about the Highway Trust Fund for more than a year. New numbers released by the Congressional Budget Office project the fund will run out of money by the end of August, which could cause significant disruptions during the busy summer construction season. AED stresses that the precarious…
Read MoreAstec Acquires Telestack
April 8, 2014 – Astec Industries Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of Omagh, Northern Ireland-based Telestack Ltd. for $36 million.
Read MoreObama Lays Out Vision for Transportation
President Obama, on Feb. 26, spoke at the Union Depot train station in St. Paul, Minn., where he outlined his vision for investing in America’s infrastructure with a $302 billion, four-year surface transportation reauthorization proposal.
Read MoreCanada Unveils Infrastructure Plan
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled the New Building Canada Plan, the largest long-term infrastructure plan in Canadian history.
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