Construction Dive

AUGUST 14, 2023

Major data center operators continue to show interest in markets with ample land and water supply, low natural disaster risk and favorable energy costs.

Iowa 110

Iowa Risk 110

Construction Equipment

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

A northwest Iowa rancher was so fed up from his cattle repeatedly escaping that he mailed a bill to the pipeline company for the costs of constantly chasing his animals. A landowner grew so frustrated with Dakota Access Pipeline workers that she delivered a garbage bag to county supervisors full of metal debris collected from her fields.

Iowa 87

Iowa Construction 87

ENR Construction

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Recreating the benefits of a natural shoreline is more complicated than it seems, but the Iowa Court and South Green Living Shoreline Project in Little Egg Harbor and Tuckerton, N.J., used innovative techniques to install new features to restore damage from Hurricane Sandy and protect from future storms.

Iowa 69

Iowa Green Innovation 69

Construction Dive

JANUARY 17, 2020

From medical marijuana manufacturing to infrastructure upgrades, a range of diverse projects is fueling a massive uptick in construction activity.

Iowa 102

Iowa Infrastructure Construction 102

ENR Construction

JUNE 7, 2021

$6,000 welder stolen from Bettendorf, Iowa, work site by couple looking for scrap.

Iowa 74

Iowa Site 74

Construction Dive

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The project announcement closely follows Google’s other recent commitments to expand its data center facilities elsewhere in the country, such as in Ohio and Iowa.

Arizona 136

Arizona Iowa Ohio Plans 136

ENR Construction

MAY 21, 2020

The Iowa Dept. of Transportation has proposed a five-year, $3.6-billion billion transportation plan, more than half of which would be devoted to road and bridge projects.

Iowa 36

Iowa Transportation Plans Roads 36

Construction Equipment

OCTOBER 16, 2016

More than 50 protesters briefly stopped construction at Dakota Access pipeline worksites Saturday in west central Iowa, and two were arrested.

Iowa 48

Iowa Equipment Construction 48

Construction Equipment

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

OSHA is investigating the death of a construction worker at Turtle Creek Wind Farm in Mitchell County, Iowa. The fatal accident occurred around 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17, while the worker loaded equipment onto the site. The worker has since been identified as Joseph Hill of Minnesota. Mitchell…

Iowa 48

Iowa OSHA Minnesota Accidents 48

ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

An Iowa landscaping contractor's former vice president inflated the value of its invoices to give the company a no-interest loan. It was caught when a geofoam supplier complained to the Iowa Department of Transportation that it hadn't been paid.

Iowa 36

Iowa Transportation Contractors 36

Construction Equipment

APRIL 12, 2016

Nine Iowa landowners filed suit Friday against the Iowa Utilities Board saying the planned underground crude oil pipeline to be built by Dakota Access LLC doesn't qualify as a public utility and should not be granted the use of eminent domain rights.

Iowa 48

Iowa North Dakota Dallas Illinois 48

Construction Equipment

AUGUST 29, 2017

The Iowa Economic Development Authority and Governor Kim Reynolds have announced Apple plans to build a $1.3 billion data center in Waukee, Iowa.

Iowa 59

Iowa Infrastructure Plans 59

BD+C

JANUARY 10, 2018

Designed and built by Gray Construction, Kraft Heinz’s new 382,157-sf meat processing and packaging facility in Davenport, Iowa occupies a 70-acre site in the Eastern Iowa Industrial Center. The building’s floor construction consists of structural slabs while the wall construction consists of insulated metal panels.

Iowa 63

Iowa Office Site Industrial 63

Construction Equipment

AUGUST 29, 2017

The Iowa Economic Development Authority and Governor Kim Reynolds have announced Apple plans to build a $1.3 billion data center in Waukee, Iowa.

Iowa 50

Iowa Infrastructure Plans 50

Construction Equipment

JUNE 14, 2016

Although the Iowa Utility Board voted 2-1 last week to allow Dakota Access to begin construction on Iowa land where the company has all the necessary permissions, landowners Marvin and Bonnie Zoch and Marian Johnson, who own land in Cherokee County in the path of the pipeline, filed lawsuits saying Dakota Access and the pipeline developer did not meet (..)

Iowa 48

Iowa Construction 48

ENR Construction

JANUARY 25, 2024

It was a small town in Iowa, and the teacher’s neighbor was the town engineer for a dozen communities,” recalls Witte, vice president of construction engineering for Parsons Corp. Brian Witte was just a freshman in high school when he launched his infrastructure career. “It They needed help.

Iowa 69

Iowa Innovation Infrastructure Engineering 69

Business Facilities

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Iowa consistently earns high marks for its education climate. For many years, Iowa’s public high schools have had the nation’s highest graduation rate. Iowa ranks fifth in the nation in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) degrees conferred per 1,000 residents. In addition, Iowa is second in the U.S.

Iowa 43

Iowa Site Illinois Education 43

Construction Equipment

JANUARY 17, 2016

Iowa Workforce Development , IowaWORKS and Hawkeye Community College are using a $75,000 Walmart Foundation grant to introduce low-income Iowa women to high-growth construction jobs.

Iowa 48

Iowa Income Equipment Foundation 48

Business Facilities

AUGUST 23, 2017

Earlier this month, the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) board awarded direct financial assistance and tax benefits to five companies for job creation and expansion projects. Today, Crystal provides temperature-controlled warehouse and repackaging services to food processing companies, not only in Iowa, but around the globe.

Iowa 40

Iowa Equipment NJ Plans 40

Construction Equipment

JULY 27, 2016

Army Corps of Engineers approved 60 river crossing along the proposed route of the Bakken Pipeline which runs diagonally northwest to southeast across Iowa. Opponents to the pipeline, Bold Iowa and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, plan to continue to rally in opposition.

Iowa 0

Iowa Permits Engineering Plans 0

Construction Dive

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The John Deere manufacturer is laying off 57 workers in Iowa, following Q4 news that it expects sales of its construction equipment to fall as much as 15% next fiscal year.

Iowa 94

Iowa News Construction Equipment 94

Construction Equipment

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Peyton Atzen, a 16-year old student at Southeast Polk High School in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, decided to fight a speeding ticket he received from an Iowa DOT officer, citing a 70-year old Iowa Supreme Court case that said DOT officers have limited ticketing authority that does not include speeding or arrests.

Iowa 48

Iowa DOT Legal Office 48

Construction Equipment

OCTOBER 5, 2015

The Iowa Department of Transportation is using accelerated bridge construction (ABC) to replace the Little Silver Creek Bridge in 21 days.

Iowa 48

Iowa ABC DOT Transportation 48

Construction Dive

JULY 25, 2023

The Des Moines, Iowa-based company will build a pedestrian bridge and rental car lobby at the Orlando International Airport.

Airports 113

Airports Iowa Infrastructure 113

Construction Equipment

OCTOBER 16, 2016

17, Dakota Access LLC said intentional burning of construction equipment has caused millions of dollars in damages. Arson was reported at a Dakota Access site in Iowa on Saturday. In a news release Monday, Oct.

Iowa 48

Iowa Equipment News Site 48

ENR Construction

MAY 29, 2023

Six-story Davenport apartment structure had been undergoing exterior brick wall repairs prior to partial collapse on May 28, with two people feared still inside and dead.

Iowa 72

Iowa Engineering 72

ENR Construction

APRIL 16, 2022

CM at-risk would be allowed on all vertical construction but universities could not use DB project delivery, under state legislation passed by both houses

Iowa 73

Iowa Design Risk Housing 73

ENR Construction

JUNE 25, 2021

Woodruff Construction, a general contractor that provides award-winning design-build, construction management, and project development services to clients across Iowa, needed to get a better handle on overhead costs so they could be allocated to job costing and billing.

Overhead 71

Overhead Iowa Construction Contractors 71

ENR Construction

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

and Bettendorf, Iowa, has made significant progress since construction began in July 2017. The distinctive 800-ft-long, 164-ft-tall “basket handle” true arches of the new Interstate 74 Mississippi River Bridge have yet to rise, but the $1.2-billion billion project connecting Moline, Ill.,

Iowa 34

Iowa Mississippi Illinois Construction 34

Construction Equipment

AUGUST 31, 2016

The Iowa Utilities Board has approved MidAmerican Energy's wind turbine project will generate enough power for 800,000 household by 2020.

Iowa 57

Iowa 57

Construction Equipment

OCTOBER 16, 2016

17, Dakota Access LLC said intentional burning of construction equipment has caused millions of dollars in damages. Arson was reported at a Dakota Access site in Iowa on Saturday. In a news release Monday, Oct.

Iowa 48

Iowa Equipment News Site 48

ENR Construction

MARCH 9, 2021

A former flood control dam is retrofitted into Iowa's second hydroelectric dam.

Iowa 36

Iowa 36

ENR Construction

JUNE 7, 2021

$6,000 welder stolen from Bettendorf, Iowa, work site by couple looking for scrap.

Iowa 41

Iowa Site 41

Construction Equipment

AUGUST 6, 2014

and Case Construction Equipment will invest $24 million to expand production in Burlington, Iowa with the addition of the company’s M Series crawler dozer production line. CNH Industrial N.V. The expansion will create approximately 50 full-time jobs.

Iowa 54

Iowa Products Equipment Industrial 54

ENR Construction

JUNE 12, 2023

The building's owner pleaded guilty to an infraction of city code for failing to maintain the building.

Iowa 73

Iowa 73

ENR Construction

JULY 25, 2018

Six piers constructed as part of a $23-million interchange upgrade in Iowa will have to be modified as a result of a contractor’s measurement error that left them too tall for a planned flyover bridge.

Iowa 34

Iowa Plans Contractors Construction 34

ENR Construction

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

and Bettendorf, Iowa, has made significant progress since construction began in July 2017. The distinctive 800-ft-long, 164-ft-tall “basket handle” true arches of the new Interstate 74 Mississippi River Bridge have yet to rise, but the $1.2-billion billion project connecting Moline, Ill.,

Iowa 28

Iowa Mississippi Construction 28