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Tennessee DOT launches new Work Zone safety campaign
The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) has announced the launch of a new safety campaign asking motorists to “Work with Us – move over and slow down” for highway workers. TDOT spread the message throughout Tennessee during National Work Zone Awareness Week, April 3-7, after three employees died in 2016. “Last year was absolutely tragic for our TDOT family; […]
April 14, 2017
Work begins on George Massey Tunnel Replacement Project in B.C.
Work began on the Highway 99 George Massey Tunnel Replacement Project in British Columbia, Canada, on April 5, Kelowna Now reports. The five-year project will replace the four-lane tunnel with a 10-lane bridge. “After four years of consultation with First Nations, municipal and regional governments, and a tremendous amount of technical work, construction is underway […]
April 12, 2017
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California roads and bridges pay heavy price for rains that end drought
California’s highways, roads and bridges have paid a heavy price for the rain that ended the state’s drought in 2017. Graniterock reports that the rain caused massive destruction to the state’s transportation infrastructure that will cost more than $1 billion to repair. On top of the damage caused by the rains, California has a $6 billion annual backlog […]
April 7, 2017
Roadbuilding
Bertha sees daylight, finishes 1.7-mile boring work for SR 99 tunnel
Sixty-four years after the Alaskan Way Viaduct was first opened to traffic, Bertha, the world’s largest tunnel boring machine, broke through the end of a more than 9,270-foot tunnel for Seattle’s SR 99. “This is a historic moment in our state’s transportation history,” says Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee. “Innovation and perseverance are the engines […]
April 6, 2017
Roadbuilding
Work begins on new Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi
The last week of March marked the beginning of work on the $809.2 million Harbor Bridge replacement project, which is part of U.S. Highway 181 that will connect downtown Corpus Christi, Texas, with North Beach, My San Antonio reports. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) planned to replace the bridge because it was unsafe and had […]
April 5, 2017
Roadbuilding
Arizona DOT creates online virtual tour animation of South Mountain Freeway
The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) has created an online virtual tour flyover animation of the South Mountain Freeway that has incorporated updated plans for the 22-mile corridor set for complete in late 2019. The freeway project is the largest single freeway project in the state’s history. The six-and-a-half minute video is an update to […]
March 30, 2017
Roadbuilding
Caltrans covers the basics of concrete, asphalt pavement applications
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has created a video to offer the public guidance on the differences between concrete and asphalt pavements, including how they’re made and the applications in which they are used. For example, the agency uses concrete in cities and mountain passes for “high-truck traffic, chains and studded tires,” and asphalt […]
March 15, 2017
Roadbuilding
A 360-degree view inside Bertha and construction of the SR 99 tunnel
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has created a video featuring 360-degree views inside the SR 99 tunnel as Bertha, the world’s largest tunnel boring machine, makes its way underneath Seattle. The department says this feature provides the best way to provide a view of the “record-breaking size” of the tunnel without taking a […]
March 14, 2017
ConExpo-Con/Agg
Astec launches Silobot, a robotic asphalt silo inspection and mapping service
Astec has introduced a new asphalt silo inspection tool designed to minimize danger to personnel inspecting the silo, provide precise thickness mapping, and cut back silo downtime to a fraction of what is traditionally needed. Called Silobot, the machine was on display at ConExpo 2017 in Las Vegas. The old way to inspect a silo was […]
March 13, 2017
Roadbuilding
WSDOT building world’s first flexible bridge
The Washington State Department of Transportation is building an offramp from Highway 99 to South Dearborn Street in Seattle that has a flexible column designed to sustain so little damage in an earthquake that that it can be used immediately afterwards. The Seattle Times reports that it will be the first bridge in the world with […]
March 13, 2017
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Case unveils half dozer, half CTL concept DL450 as “Compact Dozer Loader”
Teased prior to ConExpo as “Project Minotaur,” Case Construction Equipment’s DL450 is billed as a “Compact Dozer Loader” that combines a compact track loader (CTL) with a dozer. Case is using ConExpo to get contractor feedback on the concept machine. “We didn’t want to just create a reaction,” says Scott Harris, vice president, North America, […]
March 8, 2017
Construction Equipment
World’s first 3D-printed excavator gets to work in ConExpo unveiling
Though hundreds of machines are making their debut here in Las Vegas this week at the ConExpo/Con-Agg and IFPE shows, one piece of equipment in particular has created quite a buzz. Project AME (pronounced “Amy’) is a 3D-printed excavator produced through a consortium of research teams that are part of the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid […]
March 7, 2017
Equipment Experts
Operating a D8T 1,700 miles away with Cat’s Remote Operator system at ConExpo
ConExpo attendees will be able to sit in a simulator-type set up in Caterpillar’s Gold Lot booth and remotely operate a D8T located at the company’s Edwards Demonstration & Learning Center in Peoria, some 1,700 miles away. In what is called a Command Trailer, operators behind the D8T controls can take the machine around a […]
March 7, 2017
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Operating a D8T 1,700 miles away with Cat’s Remote Operator system at ConExpo
ConExpo attendees will be able to sit in a simulator-type set up in Caterpillar’s Gold Lot booth and remotely operate a D8T located at the company’s Edwards Demonstration & Learning Center in Peoria, some 1,700 miles away. In what is called a Command Trailer, operators behind the D8T controls can take the machine around a […]
March 7, 2017
Construction Equipment
Power Dozer’s tracked blade can build earth walls, clear minefields, backfill like nobody’s business
Look at this thing and tell me you don’t immediately want to hop into the cab and see what it can do. While you might not see a Viking Power Dozer on most jobsites, there probably aren’t many earthmoving jobs that wouldn’t benefit from having it around. This dozer configuration makes quick work of backfilling […]
March 3, 2017
Construction Equipment
Case teases #ProjectMinotaur, a new equipment category to be unveiled at ConExpo
In a cryptic video featuring the enraged growl of a bull, Case Construction Equipment has teased the unveiling of what it is calling a new category of heavy equipment. The company posted the 30-second video to YouTube on Wednesday under the title “Unleashing #ProjectMinotaur.” In the video the company says, “In 1957 we invented a […]
March 3, 2017
Trucks
UPS launches drone from truck to make first unmanned residential delivery
UPS has successfully tested a drone designed to launch from the top of one of its delivery trucks. The test, performed Feb. 20 in Lithia, Florida, with Workhorse Group, an Ohio-based electric truck and drone developer, successfully sent the drone first on an autonomous package delivery and then back to the truck while it was out […]
February 24, 2017
Technology
Kespry Drone 2s brings centimeter-level survey accuracy, single base station setup to automated drone platform
Drone maker and aerial intelligence platform Kespry has introduced a big update to its Drone 2 hardware that greatly improves the unmanned aircraft’s performance while increasing its accuracy and reliability. Last year, Kespry launched Drone 2.0, a complete drone solution aimed at construction and surveying that fully integrates drone hardware and cloud-based image rendering software in order […]
February 22, 2017
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