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    • September 2008

    Excavation

    Crossing that bridge

    Sept. 16, 2008
    Take a drive to Port Severn, Ontario—about 90 miles northwest of Toronto—and you’ll come across a recently constructed road and bridge adjacent to Dam G. Most people drive over...
    Bridges

    After checks

    Sept. 9, 2008
    Photos and reports from Sichuan, China, inform us of the destruction of the May 12 7.9 earthquake and serve as yet another reminder of the risk societies face from natural hazards...
    Infrastructure Security

    For the experience

    Sept. 9, 2008
    Doug Gannaway does not see a snake in Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. He sees a lizard. Back when he lived in California, the construction of nuclear power plants...
    Home

    Write it down

    Sept. 9, 2008
    There’s nothing more frustrating to a contractor’s legal team and upper management than being tasked with drafting or presenting a claim and having no reliable project documentation...
    Bridges

    Saluting excellence

    Sept. 9, 2008
    America’s Transportation Award recognizes achievement in the development and construction of transportation projects and instills an appreciation of transportation as a key element...

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    Highway Construction

    It answers 2 greatness

    Sept. 9, 2008
    Israel’s Highway 6 has never lacked for adjectives to describe it. Also known as the Trans-Israel Highway, the Cross-Israel Highway and the Yitzhak Rabin Highway, Highway 6 is...
    GPS

    Doing more with less

    Sept. 9, 2008
    In the Loess Hills of northwest Iowa, the Woodbury County engineering department has its hands full. There is the Missouri River on the western border adjacent to Nebraska and...
    Bridges

    Self-Explanatory

    Sept. 9, 2008
    After the tragic collapse of the original bridge on Aug. 1, 2007, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) set a fast-tracked schedule for construction of a new I-35W...
    Interstate System

    In their words

    Sept. 9, 2008
    One is too old—the other is too thin. The junior senator lacks experience—the senior senator doesn’t have charisma. Contrasting images of the nation’s presidential candidates,...
    Road Construction

    The elephant in the room

    Sept. 9, 2008
    It is well established that the presence of high-quality infrastructure is a key to economic growth for a nation. The road system in India has historically been overshadowed by...
    Home

    Senior moments

    Sept. 4, 2008
    Someone has to pay With gas prices as high as they are, getting stuck in a traffic jam can be expensive. So when Carol Greenberg of Perrysburg, Ohio, got stuck in a work-zone ...
    Home

    Say what?

    Sept. 4, 2008
    My choir is singing in Pig Latin. Not too long ago, Matt Jeanneret, senior vice president of communications and marketing for the American Road & Transportation Builders Association...
    Home

    Declawing wildlife

    Sept. 4, 2008
    George W. Bush’s White House drew an outcry from environmentalists again in mid-August by proposing a new rule to allow federal agencies, such as the Federal Highway Administration...
    Highway Construction

    A foot hold

    Sept. 4, 2008
    Highway improvement programs on two continents often share one objective: to minimize their transportation systems’ ecological footprint by reducing carbon emissions, recycling...