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Committee Hearings in Full Swing at the Statehouse

INDIANAPOLIS – The 123rd session of the Indiana General Assembly has been very active with committee hearings in both the House and Senate. AIA Indiana has testified on bills regarding historic preservation and building code matters. AIA Indiana has also been busy working on professional licensing and housing

SB 174, …

Dynapac supported suicide prevention efforts with a wrapped D30W paver at World of Asphalt 2024.

In partnership with WorldSkills, DEWALT surveyed participants in the 2024 WorldSkills Competition about their views on skilled trade careers. (Graphic courtesy of DEWALT)

The SVCW Gravity Pipeline project in Redwood City, California, involved 3.3 miles of fiberglass reinforced polymer mortar pipe inside a concrete tunnel — bored under an airport taxiway, a major suburban thoroughfare, an active sewer force main, and two local residences — as well as three shafts. (Photo courtesy of Silicon Valley Clean Water)

From the 2024 Workforce Survey conducted by AGC and Arcoro

Direct rainfall simulator, showing 5.3 inches of rain in six hours.

Around the Country

Excavators, dump trucks, and other machines were used on the Olancha-Cartago 4-Lane Project.

The interchange on Interstate 57/74 will be a semi-directional interchange composed of two directional flyovers, two loop ramps, and two outer ramps.

Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Mike Carroll, is overseeing projects throughout the state.

The construction team is currently working on phase 1B of the multi-phase project to modernize the I-35/I-240 interchange.

On one of the five bridges being replaced on I-40, the team used TyBOT, a rebar-tying robot designed to operate without any pre-programming required.

The Westbound U.S. Highway 10 Reconstruct project in Bay County, Michigan, is on schedule to be completed by November 1, 2024.

A crew member manually turns tracker rows at an Alliant Energy solar project in Iowa.

Crews place the new concrete deck for a bridge replacement project in Hartford, Vermont.

The $112 million project on the Interstate 86/Interstate 15 System Interchange involved the use of multiple GNSS-equipped motor graders, excavators, and dozers.

The U.S. 85 Corridor Improvements Project will improve 2.5 miles of U.S. 85 from Highlands Ranch Parkway to Dad Clark Gulch. (Photo courtesy of Red Bushell)

The middle floodgate pictured is the first of 10 new floodgates to be installed at Wirtz Dam during a $76 million project to renovate and modernize the dam. Installation of the first new floodgate was completed in February 2024.

The Highway 23 South Gap project will convert 7 miles of roadway from two to four lanes. (Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Department of Transportation)