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NJ.com
Drivers will start to see some payoff this year after enduring closed lanes and detours as parts of several major construction projects are scheduled to open in 2017. Despite a multi-month shutdown of some work funded by the Transportation Trust Fund, state Department of Transportation officials kept work going on the biggest projects to rebuild bridges, construct new spans and to add missing connections to interchanges between major highways.
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NJSME
The next NJSME general meeting will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 8. NJSME has applied to the NJDCA for approval of CPWM CEUs for the NJDEP Stormwater and Pavement Preservation portions of our February meeting. NJDCA approval is pending. Click here to view the agenda for the meeting.
New Jersey One Call
New Jersey facility operators will be hosting their seventh year series of meetings throughout the state to educate and promote the importance of underground utility safety. We encourage you and/or your staff to attend one of these FREE sessions to learn more about damage prevention and why it's so important to call 811 for a mark out before you dig — it's the law in New Jersey.
Each session will begin at 7:30 a.m. with registration and a FREE breakfast. Presentations will begin at 8 a.m. and last until approximately 9:30 a.m. There will be time afterwards for questions.
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NJSME
On Dec. 22, 2016, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) released a notice seeking comment on "potential Commission action to help expedite the deployment [of] next generation wireless infrastructure by providing guidance on how federal law applies to local government review of wireless facility siting applications and local requirements for gaining access to the right of way." A copy of this notice can be found here.
The New Jersey League of Municipalities' (NJLOM) national affiliate, the National League of Cities (NLC), has been granted a motion by the FCC and the new initial commenting deadline is now March 8, with a reply comment deadline of April 8. This extension gives the NJLOM valuable time to gather information from municipalities on what the situation is in their communities.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
An apparent construction error six decades ago could have caused the fracture discovered Friday in a steel beam that forced the closure of the Delaware River Bridge, an engineering expert who viewed pictures of the cracked truss said Sunday. An image of the cracked truss — a supporting piece — on the bridge that runs between Bucks County in Pennsylvania and Burlington County in New Jersey shows signs of holes that had been mistakenly drilled into the steel beam and then filled with plug welds, a typical solution in the 1950s when the bridge was built, said Karl Frank, professor emeritus of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His areas of study include fractures and fatigues in metal structures and welded and bolted joints, according to the university website.
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NJ Spotlight
In the dreary, chilly rain on Tuesday, an overflow crowd jammed a state Pinelands Commission hearing to testify in what could be the final decision next month on a proposed natural-gas pipeline for a Cape May County power plant. The hearing, which at one point had about 100 people waiting outside for lack of space, was divided between those testifying for and against building the pipeline.
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NJ.com
Ever get stuck in traffic on a highway during rush hour and wish you could use one of those uncongested lanes going in the opposite direction? That's the topic of a question from a reader who wanted to know if state transportation officials have ever considered using movable barriers to add a lane during rush hour from the side of a highway which has less traffic.
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Engineering News-Record
Acquisition transactions in the engineering sector last year had a double-digit falloff to the lowest level since 2013 and the sharpest decline rate since the recession, according to a new analysis by one sector consultant and deal broker. But others report a less drastic decline. Morrissey-Goodale reports a 15 percent drop in design-firm M&A deals in 2016, to 202 from 238, with global transactions also falling to levels not seen since 2012. The firm also claims that, for the first time since then, more U.S. firms were acquiring abroad than overseas buyers entering the domestic market.
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For Construction Pros
Smart construction leaders realize that without good workers there is only so much productivity success, and therefore profitability, that can be realized. Let's take a brief look back at how the economy has impacted the "available" workers. At the early onset of our economic woes, many construction companies let a few workers go. This was often achieved by retiring a few older workers and laying off workers who were less than productive. Such action bought companies more time to weather the situation and determine if business would turn positive or fall further.
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