As part of it鈥檚 Every Day Counts initiative, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is encouraging state DOTs to try Construction Manager - General Contractor (CMGC) as part of their Accelerated Project Delivery Methods (APMD) initiative. As part of its educational effort, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is hosting the Construction Manager/General Contractor (CMGC) Peer Exchange on May 23-24, 2012 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston.
House and Senate leaders have appointed their conferees, setting the stage for the start of negotiations on a surface transportation reauthorization proposal when Congress returns from recess next week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) appointed 14 senators 鈥 eight Democrats and six Republicans 鈥 and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Oh.) appointed 33 representatives 鈥 20 Republicans and 13 Democrats. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairperson Barbara Boxer (D-Cal.), who will serve as the conference committee Chair, has scheduled the first official meeting of the conference for Tuesday, May 8.
On March 29, 2012, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking comments on how to prevent injuries and deaths from vehicles and mobile equipment backing into workers in construction and reinforcing concrete activities in construction.
Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to meet with the Senate to negotiate a bill funding federal highway and transit programs. House Members approved a motion to go to conference with the Senate (who moved to go to Conference on Tuesday) on the transportation reauthorization bill by unanimous consent, setting up what could be several weeks of discussions with the Senate.聽
澳门六合彩开奖预测 helped to focus attention on National Work Zone Awareness Week, April 22-28, with the release of the results of a survey of members and through participation in a National media event in St. Louis. 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 Highway and Transportation Division Chairman Tom Brown reported at a news conference in San Diego that 400 contractors responded to the survey with 68 percent indicating that there were vehicle crashes in their work zones in the past year with 28% reporting workers were injured and another 18% indicating there was at least one worker fatality. Respondants also said more than 50 percent of work zone crashes injure vehicle operators or users, and 15 percent of those crashes kill them.
Sixty-eight percent of the nation鈥檚 highway contractors had motor vehicles crash into their construction work zones during the past year, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America.聽 Association officials added that the study found those work zone crashes are more likely to kill construction workers than they are to kill vehicle operators or passengers.
Despite the lack of authorizing legislation, nevertheless the Senate Appropriations Committee today approved funding for transportation programs for FY 2013 which begins October 1, 2012.
By a vote of聽293-127, the House approved HR 4348, a 90 day extension of the surface transportation programs through Sept. 30, 2012. The legislation will act as a vehicle to conference with the Senate on a longer term transportation reauthorization bill. H.R. 4348 was amended on the House floor to include the environmental streamlining provisions from H.R. 7, the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, the five year comprehensive transportation reauthorization bill that was reported from the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee earlier this year but was lacking sufficient support for passage on its own.
Following the 2012 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Federal Contractors Conference, the next opportunity to tell Congress to 鈥淢ake Transportation Job #1鈥 is at the Transportation Construction Coalition鈥檚 2012 Legislative fly-In.聽 As is apparent from the inability of Congress to complete action on longer term transportation reauthorization legislation, the transportation construction industry must continue to make the case that the time to act is now.
澳门六合彩开奖预测 Senior Vice President Paul Diederich presented 澳门六合彩开奖预测 testimony today at a hearing held by the Senate Budget Committee concerning the impact short-term extensions of the transportation authorization have on the highway construction industry and infrastructure investment.