A joint venture involving three Kansas City firms will design and build the new Buck O’Neil Bridge over the Missouri River near the Wheeler Downtown Airport, Missouri highway officials announced Wednesday.

The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has selected Massman-Clarkson joint venture as the design-build contractor to replace the bridge formerly known as the Broadway Bridge. Construction is expected to begin in the fall of 2021 and be completed by late fall 2024.

In July 2018, the Vicksburg Engineer District announced an emergency closure at Columbia Lock on the Ouachita River in the northeast corner of Louisiana. District personnel investigating seepage and sand boils at the structure had discovered voids under a lock wall.

Each year the National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association recognizes exemplary performance among member contractors, their employees and retirees by presenting a series of awards. The NRC is pleased to announce the winners of its 2019 annual awards competition.

Goethals Bridge Replacement Project
New York City and Elizabeth, NJ 
Best Project, Highway/Bridge and Excellence In Safety

Key Players
Owner: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Lead Design Firm, Civil/Structural/MEP Engineer: Parsons
General Contractor: Kiewit-Weeks-Massman AJV

Taking advantage of extreme low water, the Corps of Engineers resumed rock removal dredging operations near Thebes, Ill., on December 13 in an area of the Mississippi River stretching from 38 to 46 miles above its confluence with the Ohio River.

The Corps’ rock removal contractor, Massman Construction Co., had begun work in October but paused when water levels rose. Massman is completing work begun in 2013 to remove potentially hazardous rock pinnacles. Enough work was completed then to allow safe transit at most river levels. Additional work had to wait until water levels dropped to very low levels, as they have now.

LOUISIANA, Mo. -- It has begun. With the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Champ Clark Bridge taking place on Friday, Sept. 8, the long awaited project is officially underway. The Louisiana riverfront was crowded with representatives from MoDOT, IDOT, Massman Construction, the city and local citizens to celebrate an infrastructure improvement that benefits both states.

The ceremony had guest speakers Patrick McKenna (MoDOT director), Randall Blankenhorn (Illinois secretary of transportation), Bart Niedner (Louisiana mayor), Andy Borrowman (Pike County Illinois chairman of the board) and J. Bennett Clark (great-grandson of James Beauchamp Clark).

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The new Broadway Bridge connecting downtown Little Rock and North Little Rock is now open for traffic.

State highway officials say the bridge over the Arkansas River opened to traffic late Wednesday, which was ahead of schedule. The contractor, Massman Construction, was given a 180-day period to finish the span after the old bridge was shut down and eventually demolished.

The $98.4 million project to replace the Broadway Bridge has, at times, looked less like major construction work and more like a naval operation. That's because boats have played a prominent role in bringing down the old, 93-year-old bridge and floating part of the new bridge into place.

It took two vessels to help bring down the steel arch of the old bridge after explosives failed to dislodge it last month. Three vessels were employed to help the first of the new bridge's two arches into place two weeks ago.

MT. AIRY, Louisiana - Pin Oak Holdings, LLC is pleased to announce that it has executed an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (“EPC”) contract with Massman Construction Co. (“Massman”) to build Pin Oak Terminal’s first dock and related equipment. Massman, a family owned and operated company, brings over 100 years of construction experience to the project and has a strong reputation to build the dock safely and on schedule. Pin Oak chose Massman after a rigorous decision process and is confident that their staff will adhere to the strict safety requirements that govern Pin Oak’s operations. Pin Oak will begin construction of the dock in June with it fully operational by May 2017.

In 1991, the Missouri and Illinois departments of transportation began voicing concern about the flow of interstate traffic between downtown St. Louis and St. Clair County, Illinois. Part of the solution was to build a new interstate bridge over the Mississippi River. By 2001 the two departments had determined the ideal location for the new bridge, and they had also invested money and resources securing a record of decision regarding the project from the Federal Highway Administration that would enable them to proceed. The project had already endured its share of starts and stops, and just as it seemed to have cleared many of the hurdles common in today’s large, complex transportation projects, the bridge’s design and construction price tag—$451 million—arrived.