Interchange Remains Open While MassDOT Build’s Commonwealth’s First Diverging Diamond Project

Keeping a busy Natick, Mass. interchange open while replacing a deteriorating bridge west of Boston is critical for the ongoing Route 27/9 Interchange project that will deliver Massachusetts’s first Diverging Diamond Interchange. The so-called Natick Big Dig led by the Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation must maintain a fully operational interchange serving some 90,000 vehicles daily […]

West Virginia Winds Down $47M Road Widening Project

Kokosing Construction Co. is putting the finishing touches on the nearly $47-million Jefferson Road Widening Project in South Charleston, W. Va. Along with widening the 1.7-mile corridor to five lanes, the project for the West Virginia Dept. of Transportation included construction of a new roundabout and 770-ft-long overpass across the Kanawha Turnpike, eliminating a congested […]

Pool Deck Failure Cited as Starting Point in Surfside Condo Collapse

Federal investigators said Sept. 9 that the catastrophic collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., likely began in the pool deck.  The National Institute of Standards and Technology reported that results from structural testing and high-fidelity computer simulations show a slab-column connection in the deck was the probable point of origin for the June […]