Owner of the Year: Florida Department of Transportation

At the recent general session of the annual Florida Transportation Builders Association/Florida Dept. of Transportation Construction Conference in Orlando, Kevin Thiebault, FDOT’s assistant secretary of engineering and operations, stepped up to deliver his remarks on the agency’s status. Full Story >>

iROX is Rockin’!

The $430.4-million, 30-mi-long Interstate 75 Road Expansion Project, also called iROX, is nearly a year ahead of schedule and tracking for a $15 million bonus. The project let by the Florida Department of Transportation uses an innovative design-build-finance approach. Full Story >>

North Carolina Report: Tough Times for Tar Heel State

Players in North Carolina’s construction industry expect to limp along in 2009, finishing up jobs that were awarded or begun last year. But their biggest worry is 2010.
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Southeast DOTs Move Ahead on $3.5 Billion in Stimulus Funds

The four-state region of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina received more than $3.5 billion in stimulus funds aimed at highways and other infrastructure work, and state transportation departments are moving rapidly to deliver on these projects. Full Story >>

NCDOT Report: Highway Crash

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act came along just as traditional revenues for new roadwork were drying up in North Carolina and road lettings were being reduced to a small fraction of recent levels. Full Story >>

The Southeast’s Top Green Builders

In our continuing effort to provide insight and analysis about the regional construction and design industries, Southeast Construction presents its newest ranking, for Top Green Builders. Full Story >>

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