The Metropolitan Council for the Twin Cities has tweaked construction documents for major work on the $1.858 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit project, but it remains to be seen if those changes will have the desired effect of reducing project costs.

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1. Amount: $10,950,000 Project: Fieldhouse addition in Platteville Awarded to: Kraemer Brothers LLC, Plain 2. Amount: $5,890,000 Project: Recreation-center addition in La Crosse Awarded to: R.J. Jurowski Construction, Whitehall 3. Amount: $5,593,749 Project: Fire-protection retrofit in Madison Awarded to: Miron Construction Co., Neenah ...

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Charley McCrossan, who founded and nurtured C.S. McCrossan into one of the nation’s top family-owned highway contractors, died Tuesday at age 91.

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Westview Elementary School in Platteville had gone without any big changes since 1966.

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Federal officials have hit Kraemer Brothers LLC with a fine and gave the company until Friday to abate conditions that contributed to the death in June of a 30-year-old worker at a school construction site.

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A weekly compilation of the largest winning bids in Wisconsin, according to The Daily Reporter’s JobTrac service.

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The new Sauk Prairie elementary school is in response to the region’s increasing population.

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Dane County Judge Peter Anderson decided Monday that the procedures used to award a contract for a new public works building in Middleton probably were unlawful.

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In suing the city of Middleton over its bidding procedures, the Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin is doing something it has not done in at least two decades.

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When Middleton officials stipulated that only members of a particular trade group could build a proposed public works garage using a method known as tilt-up concrete, the city limited the number of companies that could compete for the work.

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