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Crews begin dismantling old Tappan Zee Bridge
The video below shows crews at work dismantling the old Tappan Zee Bridge. A floating super crane is being used to remove large sections of the bridge and place them on barges for transport, CBS New York reports. Traffic has begun traveling on the first of two spans of the new Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge […]
November 16, 2017
This excavator is using an honest to God shovel where the bucket goes
The video below comes to us via Avery Springer on Twitter and shows an excavator operator who has chosen one of the…uh…simpler(?)…attachments at his disposal. The clip below is only about five seconds long, so we’d love to know how long this was actually going on for.
November 9, 2017
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Tybot robot performs tedious job of tying rebar on bridge decks
Steve Muck, CEO and chairman of Brayman Construction Corp., teamed up with Jeremy Searock, former technical program manager at Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center, to create Advanced Construction Robotics Inc., a new company that has produced an autonomous robot called Tybot that can do the tedious job of tying rebar for bridge decks […]
November 7, 2017
Roadbuilding
Volvo CE details progress of I-4 megaproject in Florida
The video below is the first in a series of five videos from Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) called The Megaproject Listing. This first video provides an overview of the Interstate 4 reconstruction project in Florida. The $2.3 billion I-4 Ultimate megaproject’s design and engineering is on the cutting edge of infrastructure development, according to […]
November 3, 2017
Roadbuilding
Flight through Bertha’s tunnel shows SR 99 construction progress
The drone footage below, from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), takes you on a tour of the SR 99 tunnel that tunnel boring machine Bertha excavated under Seattle. The drone enters the end of the tunnel nearest the Space Needle and travels through the tunnel to the other end near the stadiums. The […]
November 1, 2017
Roadbuilding
Drone’s eye view of Vail’s new I-70 underpass and roundabouts
A $30 million project to build an Interstate 70 underpass and roundabouts to improve traffic flow in Vail, Colorado, has been completed ahead of schedule, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. The underpass connects north and south frontage roads between the Vail resort area and West Vail mall areas. The new Sandstone Underpass is […]
October 27, 2017
Construction Equipment
Consider subbing excavation work to this adorable wiener dog crew
Man, the construction labor shortage must be worse than we thought. Not only was this crew not able to find a skilled human excavator operator, they had to look outside of the species entirely. The adorable video below stars, Crusoe, an apparently internet famous dachshund, and a friend. We can’t say much for how productive […]
October 26, 2017
Roadbuilding
’29 Ford Model A the final car to cross old Tappan Zee Bridge
Nyack resident Seth Kestenbaum was the last person to drive across the old Tappan Zee Bridge in his 1929 Model A Ford Phaeton on October 6. He crossed from Rockland to Westchester just before 10 p.m., right before traffic was diverted to the new Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge so that the landings to the […]
October 25, 2017
Roadbuilding
Time-lapse chronicles ACI award-winning Winona Bridge project
This $78 million Winona Bridge project involved the construction of a 2,300-foot concrete bridge next to an existing 1942-era historic bridge that carries Highway 43 over the Mississippi River. The new bridge will allow traffic to travel between Minnesota and Wisconsin while the historic bridge is being rehabilitated, and then serve as the two southbound […]
October 20, 2017
Construction Equipment
Crane flips while lowering backhoe into pit
The operator in the video below is lucky to be unharmed after his machine flips completely over while lowering a backhoe into a pit. As the machine begins to leave the ground you can actually see him notice that his wheels are airborne before deciding to bail. Even after he escapes, it appears that he […]
October 19, 2017
Roadbuilding
An overview of the ACI award-winning Johnson County Gateway project
The $288 million Johnson County Gateway project, the first design-build project awarded by the Kansas Department of Transportation, addressed one of the most highly travelled interstates in Overland, Kansas, by adding additional lanes and reconfiguring existing interchanges throughout the I-435/I-35/K-10 corridor. The project included the construction of 22 bridges, two diverging diamond interchanges, and the […]
October 19, 2017
Roadbuilding
Drone captures implosion of N.Y.’s old Cohoes-Waterford Bridge piers
All traffic was halted on the Cohoes-Waterford Bridge on October 5 as workers imploded the six piers from the old bridge, timesunion.com reports. The bridge carries vehicles on Route 32 over the Mohawk River in New York. The New York State Department of Transportation recorded the implosion from different angles with a couple of cameras and […]
October 16, 2017
Pickups
Ford F-150 lays waste to Hellcat, Corvette, others in 1/4-mile
No replacement for big displacement? After a 2017 F-150 XLT 4×4 with a 3.5-liter EcoBoost got some help from Brew City Boost, which included a methanol injection, the truck repeatedly ate up the ¼ mile drag at Brainerd International Raceway in Brainerd, Minnesota, and reportedly beat a ZL1 Camaro, Hellcat Challenger, C5 Corvette and others. […]
October 12, 2017
Roadbuilding
Old Hunter Station Bridge demolished for PennDOT replacement project
In the video below, taken October 4, Demtech demolishes the last of the Old Hunter Station Bridge superstructure on Route 62, which spans the Allegheny River in Tionesta Township. The demolition was part of a $23.7 million Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) bridge replacement project, which involved the construction of a new bridge approximately 100 feet […]
October 9, 2017
Roadbuilding
78-year-old NYC bridge knocked down by ‘energetic felling’
The former Kosciuszko Bridge in New York City was brought down October 1 by a process called “energetic felling,” to make way for two new cable-stayed bridges. The process involved placing small explosives in key spots, causing the bridge to fall straight down, according to The Bridge. The trusses were dismantled with heavy equipment, and […]
October 3, 2017
Roadbuilding
ARTBA elects Cummings as 2017-2018 chairman
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) has announced the election of Matthew G. Cummings, executive vice president with global infrastructure company AECOM, as its 2017-2018 chairman. Cummings has worked in the transportation construction industry for 30 years, with the last 23 years at AECOM, where he led AECOM’s $2 billion transportation business in […]
September 29, 2017
Trucks
Cat M105 DEUCE a combat dozer that moves 6x as fast as a D5
What do you get when you throw some armor on a D5 and make it capable of speeds up to 30 miles per hour? You get a DEUCE. The M105 Deployable Universal Combat Earthmover (DEUCE) was first produced by Caterpillar in 1999 under contract with the U.S. Army, according to a page at Military-Today.com. A […]
September 28, 2017
Construction Equipment
Mixer truck tumbles after bad turn into steep bank
It’s hard to make sense of what causes the tipover accident in the video below, other than poor driving and decision making. The actual accident occurs about one minute in when, after some shouting between some of the workers standing around a mixer truck approaching the top of a steep bank, the driver places the […]
September 21, 2017
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