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Granite REIT announces C$330.7m acquisitions in Canada and Texas
Granite REIT announces C$330.7m acquisitions in Canada and Texas Granite Real Estate Investment Trust announced today that it has acquired one development property in Canada and has agreed to acquire...
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Lafarge ECOPact Zero Concrete put to the test in Eastern Canada
Lafarge ECOPact Zero Concrete put to the test in Eastern Canada Lafarge’s Kingston ready mix plant produced and delivered the first ECOPact Zero concrete in Eastern Canada utilizing ECOPlanet cement i...
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Over 60 US companies earn Awards for Safety and Project Outcomes
Over 60 US companies earn Awards for Safety and Project Outcomes At the recent Construction Awards Banquet, that notion was on full display as many of the region’s top builders earned recognition for...
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Total Equipment in Puerto Rico rebrands to Vermeer Caribbean
Total Equipment in Puerto Rico rebrands to Vermeer Caribbean Total Equipment, Inc., a full-line Vermeer Industrial dealer headquartered in Puerto Rico, today announced it has acquired the rights from...
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Granite awarded $25.7m Tucson International Airport Airfield Safety Project
Granite awarded $25.7m Tucson International Airport Airfield Safety Project Granite announced it has been awarded the DBB1 contract by the Tucson Airport Authority (TAA) as part of their Airfield Safe...
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Canadian Shaw Group celebrates 160 years as they prepare for the future with Procore
Canadian Shaw Group celebrates 160 years as they prepare for the future with Procore Procore Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of construction management software, today announced that The Shaw G...
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Iteris expands across Eastern US with Delaware Valley Traffic Signal contract
Iteris expands across Eastern US with Delaware Valley Traffic Signal contract Iteris, Inc., the global leader in smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced that it has been awarded a co...
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NTT DATA awarded $15.4m contract for IT Services at Argonne National Laboratory
NTT DATA awarded $15.4m contract for IT Services at Argonne National Laboratory NTT DATA a digital business and IT services leader, today announced it has won a $15.4 million contract to deliver super...
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Ritchie Bros. sells over $99m of equipment at largest-ever pipeline construction auction
Ritchie Bros. sells over $99m of equipment at largest-ever pipeline construction auction Last week Ritchie Bros. sold US$99+ million of pipeline construction equipment in its largest-ever single-owner...
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Ardmore Industrial Airpark in Oklahoma set for $124m transformation
Ardmore Industrial Airpark in Oklahoma set for $124m transformation Under a $124 million development plan announced today, a significant portion of the Ardmore Industrial Airpark will become an intern...
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Esri helps Matanuska manage 10,000 square mile broadband network in Alaska
Esri helps Matanuska manage 10,000 square mile broadband network in Alaska When a broadband network stretches across a 10,000-square-mile area that includes the rugged, rural terrain of Alaska, it can...
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Granite wins $64m road separation contract in Southern California
Granite wins $64m road separation contract in Southern California Granite has been awarded a $64 million contract for the Jurupa Road Grade Separation project by the Riverside County Transportation De...
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Detmar Logistics orders 300 Hyliion ERX Hypertrucks
Detmar Logistics orders 300 Hyliion ERX Hypertrucks Hyliion Holdings Corp., a leader in electrified powertrain solutions for Class 8 semi-trucks, today announced that Detmar Logistics LLC has executed...
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Fluor wins Phase 2 of Texas Interstate 35E contract in Dallas
Fluor wins Phase 2 of Texas Interstate 35E contract in Dallas Fluor Corporation announced today that its joint venture with Austin Bridge & Road was selected by the Texas Department of Transportat...
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CAF approves $175m to modernize Transport Infrastructure in Trinidad and Tobago
CAF approves $175m to modernize Transport Infrastructure in Trinidad and Tobago The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) has approved a loan for $175 million in favour of Trinidad and Tobago to mod...
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Doosan Bobcat charges ahead with $70m Manufacturing Campus in North Carolina
Doosan Bobcat charges ahead with $70m Manufacturing Campus in North Carolina Doosan Bobcat North America, a global leader in the compact equipment industry, today held a ground-breaking ceremony to co...
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Iteris wins city-wide safety and mobility contract in Lake Forest, California
Iteris wins city-wide safety and mobility contract in Lake Forest, California Iteris, Inc., the global leader in smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced it has been selected by the C...
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The World Bank commits to support resilient recovery in Jamaica
The World Bank commits to support resilient recovery in Jamaica The World Bank’s Regional Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, completed a three-day visit to Ja...
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Saint-Gobain NA and Ecomedes launches buyers portal to simplify Sustainable Materials
Saint-Gobain NA and Ecomedes launches buyers portal to simplify Sustainable Materials Saint-Gobain, the world’s largest building materials company, and ecomedes, developer of the leading sustainable b...
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AKXinternet technology delivers wireless 1 Gigabit Speeds in Alaska
AKXinternet technology delivers wireless 1 Gigabit Speeds in Alaska Alaska Communications is bringing the speed Alaskans need with its new service, AKXinternet, a mesh fixed wireless solution offering...
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City of Sandy in Oregon upgrades Street Lights with sustainable Cree RSW Series LED
City of Sandy in Oregon upgrades Street Lights with sustainable Cree RSW Series LED Cree Lighting announced the completion of an extensive project in the City of Sandy, Oregon, converting all of the c...
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TollPlus deploys back-office technology for North Texas Tollway Authority
TollPlus deploys back-office technology for North Texas Tollway Authority TollPlus has successfully deployed an advanced Back‐Office System (BOS) for the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA). TollPlus...
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Liebherr will showcase their latest innovations at MINExpo 2021
Liebherr will showcase their latest innovations at MINExpo 2021 Liebherr will showcase its latest innovative equipment, technology, and services for the mining industry at MINExpo International® in La...
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Granite wins $18m 300 West Reconstruction project in Salt Lake City
Granite wins $18m 300 West Reconstruction project in Salt Lake City Granite has been awarded the $18 million contract for the 300 West Reconstruction project by Salt Lake City in Utah. The contract aw...
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Balfour Beatty and Fluor start construction of Oak Hill Parkway project in Texas
Balfour Beatty and Fluor start construction of Oak Hill Parkway project in Texas Balfour Beatty, as part of a joint venture with Fluor Corporation, recently broke ground on the Oak Hill Parkway infras...
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Velodyne Lidar and NVIDIA Metropolis partner on Intelligent Infrastructure Solutions
Velodyne Lidar and NVIDIA Metropolis partner on Intelligent Infrastructure Solutions Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced it has joined the NVIDIA Metropolis program for Velodyne’s Intelligent Infrast...
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US National Heat Safety Coalition formed to establish Heat-Safety Standards
US National Heat Safety Coalition formed to establish Heat-Safety Standards MISSION®, the preeminent innovators of cooling and heat relief technologies and Magid®, the industrial leader in workplace s...
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Esri Federal Geospatial Data now available to anyone online
Esri Federal Geospatial Data now available to anyone online Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced that in collaboration with federal agencies, it is opening up access to do...
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Prairie Link High-Speed Rail project lead by EllisDon in Canada
Prairie Link High-Speed Rail project lead by EllisDon in Canada EllisDon, a world-leading construction services and infrastructure development company, announced today that they have formed a partners...
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Pilot Company gifts custom Peterbilt Truck to driver for 40 years of valuable service
Pilot Company gifts custom Peterbilt Truck to driver for 40 years of valuable service Pilot Company is recognizing one of its long-time drivers with the rig of a lifetime. Carrying on a family traditi...
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Florida, Hawaii, and Louisiana reclassify three-wheeled Autocycles
Florida, Hawaii, and Louisiana reclassify three-wheeled Autocycles Arcimoto, Inc., makers of fun, affordable, and ultra-efficient electric vehicles for everyday drivers and fleets, today announced tha...
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World’s first Borehole Muon Tomography Solution
World’s first Borehole Muon Tomography Solution deployed Canadian Earth ‘x-ray’ start-up Ideon Technologies and French Orano Group, one of the top world uranium producers, have deployed the worl...
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Are Latin America and the Caribbean missing out on a sustainable recovery?
Are Latin America and the Caribbean missing out on a sustainable recovery? A new platform showcasing real-time data from 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean has revealed that on environmen...
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Volcanic recovery in Saint Vincent and Grenadines gets $50m support from World Bank
Volcanic recovery in Saint Vincent and Grenadines gets $50m support from World Bank The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved today US$50 million in Supplemental Financing for the Second Fi...
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SandB wins contract for World-scale 1-Hexene Unit for Chevron Phillips Chemical
S&B wins contract for World-scale 1-Hexene Unit for Chevron Phillips Chemical S&B Engineers and Constructors was awarded an engineering and construction contract with Chevron Phillips Chemical...
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AECOM providing program management for New Jersey Turnpike Interchange Widening
AECOM providing program management for New Jersey Turnpike Interchange Widening AECOM, the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, today announced that it has been selected to provide program...
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Granite wins $16m rehabilitation contract at Anchorage International Airport
Granite wins $16m rehabilitation contract at Anchorage International Airport Granite announced that it has been awarded a bid-build contract to rehabilitate three taxiways at Anchorage International A...
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Lafarge Canada keeps Concrete Trucks safe with digital Driver Vehicle Inspection
Lafarge Canada keeps Concrete Trucks safe with digital Driver Vehicle Inspection Driven to deliver innovative and creative solutions for employees and customers, Lafarge Canada is using tablets to hel...
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Iteris wins $1.5m contract to provide Smart Mobility Planning Services for LA Metro
Iteris wins $1.5m contract to provide Smart Mobility Planning Services for LA Metro Iteris, Inc., the global leader in smart mobility infrastructure management has announced that it has been awarded t...
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New York City Sanitation Department chooses Mack LR Electric Refuse Trucks
New York City Sanitation Department chooses Mack LR Electric Refuse Trucks Volvo Group’s subsidiary Mack Trucks announced today that the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) plans to purchase...
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Ritchie Bros. prepares for largest pipeline construction auction in New Mexico
Ritchie Bros. prepares for largest pipeline construction auction in New Mexico On August 10 – 11, Ritchie Bros. will conduct its largest-ever, single-owner auction for Barrilleaux Inc., an oilfield pi...
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Genesee County uses Substrata’s Perma-Zyme to construct limestone unpaved road
Genesee County uses Substrata’s Perma-Zyme to construct limestone unpaved road Today Michigan’s Genesee County and biochemical enzyme manufacturer Substrata announced the successful construction...
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Doosan Excavators in the US now feature Trimble factory-installed Machine Controls
Doosan Excavators in the US now feature Trimble factory-installed Machine Controls Trimble and Doosan Infracore North America announced today that Doosan will offer the Trimble® Earthworks Grade Contr...
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B2W Estimating and Operations Software now available to College Construction Programs
B2W Estimating and Operations Software now available to College Construction Programs B2W Software, a leading provider of heavy construction management software, is extending its B2W College Program f...
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AUSA excited to be back at the World of Concrete
AUSA excited to be back at the World of Concrete Over a year after the start of the global pandemic, thanks to the positive progress made in some regions, the first large-scale events are starting to...
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Granite awarded $12m CMAR Runway Rehabilitation contract in Central California
Granite awarded $12m CMAR Runway Rehabilitation contract in Central California Granite announced that it has been awarded a contract by the County of San Luis Obispo for the construction phase of the...
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INTECH NDE partners with Sarcos Robotics for Remote Inspection Robot in Canada
INTECH NDE partners with Sarcos Robotics for Remote Inspection Robot in Canada Sarcos Robotics, a leader in the development of robots that augment humans to enhance productivity and safety, and INTECH...
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Texas-based right of way valuation firm focuses on transportation and utilities
Texas-based right of way valuation firm focuses on transportation and utilities O’Brien Right of Way Valuation, formerly known as O’Brien Realty Advisors, today announced its strategic expansion and r...
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Peterbilt delivers first New Model 579 to Smith Transport in Pennsylvania
Peterbilt delivers first New Model 579 to Smith Transport in Pennsylvania Peterbilt Motors Company has announced the delivery of the first production New Model 579 to Smith Transport. Based in Roaring...
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Granite highway project wins 2021 Construction Risk Partners Build America Award
Granite highway project wins 2021 Construction Risk Partners Build America Award Granite has received the 2021 Construction Risk Partners Build America Award in the Marvin M. Black Partnering Excellen...
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