Skanska Rehabilitates Rail Transit Infrastructure in NE Region

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Skanska has signed a contract with Amtrak to rehabilitate and restore maintenance facilities for the Next Generation Acela 21 high-speed rail service in Washington, D.C.; Boston, Massachusetts and New York. The contract is worth about $40 million. The three maintenance facilities were initially built by the general contractor 20 years ago. The rehabilitation will include structural modifications and industrial equipment upgrades to accommodate the new trains being placed into service in 2021. Construction began in February 2020 and is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2021.

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Holt Construction Collaborate to Build Temporary Hospital

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Together with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bergen County and FEMA, Holt Construction completed a temporary hospital in just two weeks at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, New Jersey. The two fully equipped tents, the first of its kind for Army Corps temporary facility construction standards, will serve as a treatment facility for acute, non-COVID-related patients due to the influx of COVID-positive patients in the main building. The temporary hospital will serve an additional 100 patients total and is located in a large parking lot adjacent to BNBMC’s main building with a covered walkway linking the two … Read more

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Ground Broken on 2-Story Expansion Project for SPR Packaging

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Ground was recently broken on the SPR Office Building located in Rockwall, Texas. The project team includes MYCON General Contractors, Inc.; architect Pross Design Group and owner Alvaplast US Development, LLC. The SPR Office Building is a 24,000-square-foot, two-story expansion to the existing manufacturing warehouse. The project includes a formal lobby, offices and suites, architectural finished concrete features and preparation for the future locker room and bathroom. The scheduled completion date for the two-story office building is December 2020. MYCON is finishing the 79,373-square-foot North Warehouse on the same site.

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Faith Technologies Named Nation’s Safest Construction Company in 2019 by National Contractors Group

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Associated General Contractors of America recently honored Faith Technologies, Menasha, Wisconsin, for having the nation’s best construction safety and wellness plan in 2019. The association, which oversees the Willis Towers Watson Construction Safety Excellence Awards, an annual ranking of construction safety programs, noted that 56 other companies were also selected as winners for the quality of their safety programs.   “Now more than ever, there’s no more fundamental responsibility for a construction firm than to ensure the health and safety of its workers,” said Dirk Elsperman, the association’s president and executive vice president and chief operations officer of Tarlton Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri.  … Read more

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Construction Employment Declines in 99 Metro Areas March 2019-March 2020, Industry Officials Call for New Funding, Says AGC

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Construction employment declined in 99 out of 358 metro areas from March 2019 to last month as the coronavirus pandemic triggered the first shutdown orders and project cancellations, according to an analysis released by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials urged federal and state officials to boost investments in infrastructure to help put more people to work amid rising unemployment levels.   “These new figures foreshadow even larger declines in construction employment throughout the country as the pandemic’s economic damage grows more severe,” said Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist. “Unfortunately, the data for April and later months … Read more

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