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Concrete Truck Rolls Over, Killing Two

Construction Equipment

A concrete mixer truck tipped over as it turned a corner in Omaha, Neb., It took two cranes two hours to lift the fully loaded truck off the vehicle, according to the Omaha World-Herald. The truck was from Consolidated Concrete of Omaha. Watch the news report from KMTV below.

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BC’s Blog December 08

Cassell Construction Estimating

The good news is that fuel, lumber, drywall, and steel prices have fallen to their lowest prices in years. In the Islands, the big news for Timberline customers in Hawaii is the sale of Ledgerwood Associates Hawaii to Oregon-based Skyline Business Systems. Sage Timberline released its new Vista-compliant version 9.5.

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Building over a building: A radical project from the archives

The Korte Company

It was slapped together of lumber and sheet metal over a concrete pad in the early 1920s. But all that went out the window once a structural engineer from Omaha walked through. The papers inside a manila folder they handed Ralph proved it. Jefferson Smurfit. Maybe he saw the stacked paper coils. So now they had no choice.”.