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Victory Road Infrastructure Improves PA Voters: Stop Diverting Transportation 2021 Construction Innovation Communities 10 Money for Other Things 15 Conference a Virtual Success 24 SUMMER 2021 VOLUME 100 • ISSUE 2 road to victory laying the foundation of security and prosperity for 100 years CONTENTS SUMMER 2021 • VOLUME 100 • ISSUE 2 18 10 24 COLUMNS FEATURES 6 All-Industry Effort ‘Rescue 8 Speaker Series Rewind 16 Milestones PA Roads’ Campaign Pays High Steel Structures Celebrates 90 Years of Business $280-million Dividend 9 2021 TQI Awards Now By Robert E. Latham, CAE Accepting Nominations 18 Roads to Victory – Laying APC Executive Vice President the Foundation of Security Infrastructure Improves 10 and Prosperity for 100 Years 28 Dealing with Unexpected Material Communities Shortages and Price Increases 2021 Construction Innovation by James W. Kutz, Esquire, Hess Completes Internship 24 14 Conference a Virtual Success McNees, Wallace & Nurick LLC with APC 32 Industry Briefs 15 PA Voters: Stop Diverting 34 Advertisers Index Transportation Money for Other Things Highway Builder is published for the Associated Pennsylvania Constructors. Circulation covers highway and heavy constructors in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. Miscellaneous coverage throughout United States. Circulation also includes engineers, public officials, suppliers, equipment dealers, and others allied with the highway industry. 800 North Third St., Ste. 500 • Harrisburg, PA 17102 • phone: 717.238.2513 • fax: 717.238.5060 2 HIGHWAY BUILDER Summer 2021 International Construction Equipment, Inc (ICE®) is the USA manufacturer, and operates service centers, a hose company, rental fleet and manages many global distribution networks. 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Offices in Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Douglassville, and Pittsburgh 717-409-7092 • www.stvinc.com engineering • architecture • planning • program/construction management 4 HIGHWAY BUILDER Summer 2021 Pile-Master-Ad-Highway-Builder-8.5x11.indd 1 9/9/20 2:13 PM LESS AIR, MORE ENERGY Originally built for the dock building industry, Pile Master® air hammers are designed for driving timber, h-pile, pipe, and prestressed concrete piles. With an optional sheet pile adapter, the Pile Master is also a great choice for driving steel sheet piles in soil conditions where a vibratory hammer cannot drive the sheets to the required depth. Hammers can be guided for use with 21” or 26” pile driving leads or freely suspended with an extended base. Pile Master air hammers are known for their e iciency—producing up to 90% energy transfer into the pile while using an air compressor as small as 185 CFM. Request more information today. 904 874 6557 pilemasterUS.com www.paconstructors.org 5 Pile-Master-Ad-Highway-Builder-8.5x11.indd 1 9/9/20 2:13 PM EVP Column board to discuss our issue and submitted op-eds for placement across the state, including a key placement with RealClearPolitics. All of this was ALL-INDUSTRY EFFORT possible thanks to member contributions to the Advocacy Trust Fund. A working group of lobbyists and association executives representing ACEC, ACPA, CAEP, CAWP, PAPA, PACA, and APC met weekly to ‘RESCUE PA ROADS’ discuss strategy and share information. CAEP and CAWP coordinated lobbying efforts with organized labor. TCI-PAC met with a number of legislators and coordinated attendance at political events to ensure CAMPAIGN PAYS maximum publicity of our issue. $280-MILLION DIVIDEND APC commissioned a poll that showed that by a ratio of nearly 3-to-1, Pennsylvania voters support removing the State Police from a fund that by Robert E. Latham, CAE, APC Executive Vice President is dedicated for highway construction, immediately making an additional $700 million per year available to build and maintain highways and bridges. We used that information to create a legislative environment conducive to supporting our ask. During its April 9 meeting, the We sought more, but in the end the effort paid off. Because of a total APC Board of Directors decided team effort on the part of the highway construction, design, and material to act. The industry would seek community, Governor Wolf ’s original budget taking $675 million from the Motor License to reverse the anemic 2020-21 Fund for the State Police PennDOT letting program by Budget was reduced by advocating to keep motorists’ fees in the PA some $280 million. This will boost the PennDOT Motor License Fund and stop the shifting of these capital budget in the monies to the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) short-term and increase lettings in 2021 and 2022. Budget. The State Police could then be funded by federal COVID relief funds known as the The effort and results American Rescue Plan. show that when we set our mind to it we can So, soon after the American Rescue Plan was passed in Washington, accomplish important APC launched “Rescue PA Roads,” an industry call to action urging our results in the political elected officials to stop diverting highway funds in the 2021-22 state arena. In February, this budget. More than 830 members of the highway construction industry wasn’t a consideration. sent more than 3,000 emails and social media posts calling on their By June it was a given senators and representatives to stop diverting highway funds for state fact that transportation police operations and to pay for PSP operations from the American would be addressed in the Rescue Funds. Many members made personal calls and set up meetings budget. Congratulations with legislators to press the case. and thanks to all industry members who A committee consisting of APC staff and consultants launched a worked hard for this statewide media campaign to amplify our “Rescue PA Roads” messaging accomplishment.
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