Digging Into Underground Utility Construction
10-15-07
Utility and site development construction continues to do well in southwestern Florida, and one company active in that market is Forsberg Construction. Forsberg Construction, formerly known as T.A. Forsberg, Inc. of Florida, has been handling a variety of municipal and private projects in Southwest Florida since 1982.

Site Work Success
07-16-07
In McDonough, Ga., south of Atlanta, Andrews Excavation is combining careful management of its heavy equipment fleet with an in-depth understanding of developers' excavating and grading needs to carve out a solid niche in the site work field. Drew Andrews, president and CEO of the firm, started in construction after serving in the Navy as a fighter jet aircraft mechanic.

Motor grader, Dozer And GPS Boost Site Work Efficiency
07-02-07
Tiger Contracting is using GPS technology on a new motor grader and a new dozer to complete site work on a 178,000-square-foot Lowes Home Improvement Center project in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. The project also involved demolition and recycling of concrete on the site. "Productivity is the name of the game on this project," noted project manager Scott Smith, adding that the company added a new...

RCC Dam Rises Near Canton GA
06-18-07
Roller compacted concrete, also known as RCC, has been in the spotlight in Georgia's Cherokee County, where it was used to construct a massive RCC dam at the Hickory Log Creek Water Supply reservoir within the city limits of Canton, Ga. Brown and Caldwell, based in Atlanta, and Schnabel Engineering, based in Alpharetta, Ga.

Tornado Recovery in Americus
06-04-07
When a severe tornado hit southwest Georgia in early March, the damage left behind was extreme — and among the buildings which received the hardest blows was Sumter Regional Hospital in the town of Americus, Ga. And one of the first on the scene to help was Alcon Associates, a general contractor based in nearby Albany, Ga.

Runway Rehab At RSW
04-19-07
Asphalt paving jobs come in all shapes and sizes — but for sheer complexity, tight specs and critical timing, it's hard to top an airport paving job. Just ask the folks at Ajax Paving Industries in Fort Myers, Fla. Ajax Paving recently served as the pavement rehab and asphalt paving contractor on a major taxiway and runway rehab project at the Southwest Florida International Airport in Fo...

Water And Rock
04-02-07
Ask Butch Felts about construction in his hometown of Fort Myers, Fla., and he will talk about water and rock. These two elements shaped the construction industry in the southwestern Florida town well before Felts' grandmother started Lee Mar Building and Construction in the 1950s. Now, as owner and vice president of the earth moving company, Felts knows firsthand the challenges these two elements...

Sliding Into Success
03-19-07
East Tennessee Grading, Inc. of Chattanooga, Tenn., recently installed a new precast lift station for the city of Chattanooga as part of an overall upgrade to the sewer system. The installation was sited in some challenging terrain, prompting the contractor to look at new approaches to handling the installation.

Moving Into Mulch
02-19-07
Relocating from New Hampshire to subtropical southwest Florida is a big move by any standards, but for Mitchell Swenson it provided the perfect opportunity to build a site clearing and site work company in an area that had what he considered to be a particularly important characteristic. "It's a warmer climate," he says.

Big Load, Big Truck, Big Plane
02/19/2007
A Georgia transport company recently utilized a Kenworth W900 to deliver a 120-ton electric power plant for shipment to Tanzania on the world's largest plane.

Concrete On The Wild Side
02/19/2007
In southern Florida, an unusual delivery system using two trailer-mounted pumps helps M&M Concrete Pumping take on a challenging concrete pumping job in an environmentally sensitive area.

Suburban Site Work Challenges
02/05/2007
Tight quarters and concerns over stormwater management bring unusual challenges to a retail project near Cumming, Ga.

Fixing The Everglades
02/05/2007
State-of-the-art compaction technology is helping repair decades-old damage to the Everglades.

Materials Handling 101
02/05/2007
With all machine applications there is one simple formula that always seems to work: The right machine always gets the job done best.

Outlook 2007
01/01/2007
How will construction look in the Southeast in the new year? Here's a look at what some in the industry are saying.

Making Mulch In Tennessee
09/18/2006
In Tennessee, Tony Emmanuel has gone from never having heard of mulch to heading up a major producer of mulch products.