Excavators Tracked

Road Construction

A Complete Turn

Sept. 19, 2002
Opened for traffic in 1940, the Pennsylvania Turnpike is one of the older limited-access highways in the U.S. Some of its design characteristics were patterned after the German...
Bridges

The home stretch at last!

June 19, 2002
Bostonians celebrated Mother’s Day by taking a close look at the new Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge over the Charles River. The event’s planners expected maybe 40,000 people...
Retaining Walls

An answer from the panel

May 17, 2002
MKK Constructors faced the usual pressures when entering a design-build project in Colorado—time and money. Frustration could have set in, but the prime contractor wasn’t banging...
Infrastructure Security

Just drive!

April 18, 2002
An automatic machine control system probably won’t turn an earthmover into the killdozer of horror movie fame, but it might make the equipment seem as though it has a mind of ...
Excavators

Digging out

Oct. 4, 2001
If the number of new models introduced this year is an indication, the excavator segment of the construction equipment market is healthy. Many manufacturers have new products ...