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Intersection of ‘Cadillac sinkhole’ to completely reopen next week
By Marie Rohde The intersection of North and Oakland avenues in Milwaukee is expected to completely open next week, but city coffers will be at least $2.2 million lighter. The […]
Pair of threes
[caption id="attachment_60346" align="alignnone" width="288" caption="Three crew members, Joel Velez (clockwise from foreground), Jeff Settle and Jim Schwerdt of Insituform Technologies Inc., Chesterfield, Mo., work with a safety tripod to replace a sewer liner Sept. 28 at North and Bartlett avenues in Milwaukee. (Photo by John Krejci)"][/caption]
Re-covering the roof
[caption id="attachment_58672" align="alignnone" width="344" caption="Michael Hoague, owner of M&H Construction, Milwaukee, installs shingles while Santiago Garcia, an apprentice for shingling, carries felt backing up a ladder Sept. 11 at a roofing project at 52nd Street and North Avenue in Milwaukee. (Photo by David La Haye)"][/caption]
Milwaukee sinkhole repair to take additional 2 weeks
The storms of July 22 in Milwaukee opened a gaping sinkhole at East North Avenue and North Oakland Avenue that swallowed a Cadillac. Now work at the intersection has been […]
Splice as nice
[caption id="attachment_57628" align="alignnone" width="345" caption="James Sinclair, an electrical mechanic with the city of Milwaukee, strips insulation from wires for splicing during a streetlight wire repair project Aug. 17 near North Avenue and Sixth Street in Milwaukee. (Photo by David La Haye)"][/caption]
Round and round
[caption id="attachment_55928" align="alignnone" width="345" caption="Traffic control workers Jermaine Haney (left) and Mike D. Heller of Highway Technologies Inc., Villa Park, Ill., place temporary pavement markings July 7 on the new roundabout at Barker Road and North Avenue in Brookfield. The roundabout is scheduled to be completed in mid-August. (Photo by David La Haye)"][/caption]
Stimulus spawns roundabout project in Brookfield
By Sean Ryan Schneider Excavating Inc. on Monday will begin a $1.1 million stimulus project to build a roundabout at the intersection of West North Avenue and North Barker Road […]
Working the line
[caption id="attachment_40261" align="alignnone" width="357" caption="Zachary Stoffel, a technician with KS Energy Services Inc., New Berlin, prepares to run a wire from a gas line to a bar of magnesium at Booth Street and North Avenue in Milwaukee. The connection helps prevent corrosion. (Photo by David La Haye)"][/caption]
Half pipe
[caption id="attachment_40058" align="alignnone" width="357" caption="Brian Cornell, a plumber’s apprentice with KBS Construction Inc., Madison, adjusts a hanger used for a roof drain overflow pipe at the Cambridge Commons construction site at North Avenue and North Cambridge Avenue in Milwaukee. The project is scheduled for completion in August. (Photo by David La Haye)"][/caption]
Fire takes slice out of Milwaukee street (PHOTO SLIDE SHOW)
By Sean Ryan Business owners writing design rules for Milwaukee’s North Avenue lost a prime example of what they want when the Pizza Man building burned Jan. 19. “The former […]
Level headed
[caption id="attachment_35407" align="alignnone" width="386" caption="A crew from Quality Contracting Inc., Waukesha, pours concrete at 60th Street and North Avenue near the Milwaukee-Wauwatosa line. Crew members are laborers Josh Antoni (clockwise from left) and Eric Thompson and foreman Adam Olson. The street’s surface had been removed to make gas line repairs. (Photo by David La Haye)"][/capt[...]
Search-and-repair mission
[caption id="attachment_35279" align="alignnone" width="359" caption="Kevin Ferestad (left) and Chris Bannel of AT&T are on a project to find and fix an air leak in a phone cable recently at North Avenue and 68th Street in Wauwatosa. (Photo by David La Haye)"][/caption]
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- Milwaukee Mayor’s $1.9B budget proposal has infrastructure boost
- As employers face labor shortages, Biden administration rolls out playbook for training workers
- Wisconsin Senate committee votes against confirmation for four DNR policy board appointees
- October proclaimed Architecture Awareness Month in Wisconsin
- Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of October 2, 2023
- Corn mill owners plead to federal charges in fatal explosion, will pay $11.25 million
- BUILDING BLOCKS: Second phase of Lower Yahara River Trail construction
- Sky-high mortgage rates leave homes unaffordable for more buyers, sending new home sales tumbling
- Forecast: Economic challenges ahead as rates rise and labor shortages remain
- CBRE opens office on 18th floor of Milwaukee BMO Tower
- Former inmate able to rebuild life through work in construction trades
- Zignego to lead $60M I-894 improvement project
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)
