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How to Survive Construction of Expo Line's Venice Blvd. Bridge
Curbed
The building of the Venice Boulevard bridge for the Expo Line light rail extension to Santa Monica is so epic, the construction authority has launched a website solely devoted to the project, with everything including construction news and live traffic ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minnesota road construction season will mean 280 projects
Minneapolis Star Tribune
169 at 93rd Avenue in Brooklyn Park begins next week, kicking off an ambitious metro construction season involving 87 projects. They include repairs on a long segment of Interstate 35 and 35E from Lakeville to Eagan and a 5-mile stretch of I-694 ...

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Cost of DIA terminal project growing as construction progresses
Denver Post
Colorado construction costs are up between 3 and 3.5 percent over last year, wage rates for carpenters are up nearly 30 percent and other major construction projects are happening concurrent with STRP — such as FastTrax and the VA Hospital, which ...
Cranes Loom Over DIA During Hotel Construction

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Regions Field construction nears completion (photo gallery)
al.com
450 construction workers work all day and into the night by the light of the new stadium lights to complete the projection. In the next two weeks heavy landscaping and cleaning of the structure and grounds will take place along side final concrete ...

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Boulevard East in North Bergen closed for construction project
Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com
View/Post Comments. Boulevard East closed from 74th to 78th streets in North Bergen today for a four-month construction project, leaving some residents apprehensive about car, truck and bus traffic being diverted through neighborhoods. But there was no ...

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As construction of upgraded water system nears, Lake Oswego and Tigard ...
OregonLive.com
After nearly five years of studying, planning and designing for both Lake Oswego and Tigard's most expensive and largest infrastructure project, construction is set to begin this summer on expanding and upgrading the water system that will serve both ...

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MnDOT announces $1.1 billion road construction schedule
MinnPost.com
The Minnesota Department of Transportation has outlined $1.1 billion in road construction projects scheduled for this year around the state. They include 87 projects in the Twin Cities and 193 projects around the state. The department also plans 57 ...
MnDOT plans big Northland construction seasonDuluth News Tribune
MnDOT Construction Season Expected To Cost $1.1 BillionCBS Local
MnDOT announces summer construction planMankato Free Press
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February residential construction up 27 percent from last year
Kansas City Star
Tempering the resurgence in residential has been a decline in nonresidential construction. There were $79.9 million in those contracts issued in February, down 8 percent from the same month a year ago, and $126.3 million issued so far this year, down ...
County Construction Contracts Rose 9 Percent in Early 2013San Diego Business Journal
Future construction contracts up 53% in metro AtlantaAtlanta Business Chronicle
Home construction up in metro areaMyFox Atlanta

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Rebar Prices Rise as Spring Construction Demand Trims Stockpiles
Bloomberg
Steel reinforcement-bar rose on optimism that demand for the material used in housing and railroads will increase as large construction projects in northern China resume operations after winter. The contract for delivery in October rose as much as 0.9 ...

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StandardNet
Construction on Layton public trail begins with approval from city officials
StandardNet
The project includes construction of a sidewalk, light fixtures, landscaping, landscape irrigation, bridges and one entry node around a detention basin on 2 acres of land west of the Hilton Home 2 Suites and east of the Best Western Hotel. The project ...

4 protesters arrested at Hwy 101 construction site
Sacramento Bee
WILLITS, Calif. -- Authorities in Sonoma County have arrested four people protesting the construction of a Highway 101 bypass in Willits. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat ( http://bit.ly/XFlPS9) reports the protesters were arrested for trespassing at the ...

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Construction employment in Salem falls in 2012
Statesman Journal
... part of the construction industry. Associated General Contractors of America concluded that construction employment increased in 145 out of 339 metropolitan areas between January 2012 and January 2013, declined in 141 and was stagnant in 53. Tweet ...

Busy summer ahead for road construction projects
Chapel Hill News
CHAPEL HILL - Several road construction projects will occur this summer in the southern portion of Chapel Hill and Carrboro community that will bring infrastructure benefits valued at more than $11 million, town leaders said. Construction in Chapel ...

New York Observer
Weapons of Mass Construction: Satmars' Secret to Keeping Housing Prices Low
New York Observer
For half a million dollars, you can buy a three-bedroom condo in a new elevator building. The tan brick buildings won't win any design awards, with their looming, protruding window cages and diagonally cascading balconies built solely for constructing ...

Verizon, community celebrates construction start on vacant Lake Mary site (Video)
Orlando Business Journal (blog)
The participants ceremoniously shovel the first scoops of dirt at the Verizon Communications Inc. construction. View Slideshow. Jim Carchidi. The participants ceremoniously shovel the first scoops of dirt at the Verizon Communications Inc. construction ...

Mlive Kalamazoo
Union construction workers protest Borgess Health for contracting non-local ...
Mlive Kalamazoo
Washington was joined Tuesday by Hugh Coward with the Michigan Building and Construction Trades, Jeff Breslin with the Michigan Nurses Association, Carlton Lartigue with JONAH faith-based social justice coalition, George Brown with Creating Change, ...
Groups picketing Borgess construction siteWTVB

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NPR (blog)
Under Construction: Kazakhstan's Space-Age Capital
NPR (blog)
In 1997, Kazakhstan, recently freed from the Soviet Union, packed up its border-location capital, and moved it to the inhospitable steppe, smack in the middle of the country. That's where the country's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, thought it should be.

Des Moines City Council discusses crosswalk, construction
DesMoinesRegister.com
The Des Moines City Council discussed a range of topics Monday, including land use plans and construction projects. Highlights included: • Riverwalk signal: The council approved a new high-intensity activated crosswalk signal, known as a HAWK signal, ...

Construction begins on gas-fired Garrison Energy Center
The News Journal
Calpine selected Norwegian heavy construction firm Kvaerner as general contractor for the Garrison Energy Center, a combined-cycle natural gas generating station on part of a 400-acre industrial site off White Oak Road, which it will lease from the city.

Bank branch construction resumes after stop orders
Yale Daily News (blog)
Nearly two weeks after an order from the state's Labor Department halted construction, work has resumed on an Amity branch of Chase Bank, the retail arm of banking giant JPMorgan Chase. The branch — which is located no more than 20 feet from the New ...