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October 11 2025 Vol. XXXI • No. 21
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MnDOT’s Hwy 212 Project Nears Completion By Dick Rohland CEG CORRESPONDENT
Customers Experience Hands-On Demos at Sanco Sandbox...12
Brooks Tractor Open House — Celebrating 80 Years...18
tGOMACO Celebrates 60th Anniversary at Invitational #43...63
Minnesota’s Carver County teamed up with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) to put to rest a vision that has been years in the making when highway construction crews complete a $60 million highway upgrade on this 100-year-old highway. When highway workers walk off and leave the project site behind them this fall, the last 5-mi. segment of 40 mi. of Minnesota’s Hwy 212 between Minneapolis and the small rural town of Glencoe will finally be operating to expressway standards. And they leave behind them a much safer highway with double the capacity for the thousands of commuters and truckers driving it daily. MnDOT awarded the contract to Mathiowetz Construction based in Sleepy Eye, Minn. The company is a heavy-highway, commercial and agricultural construction company, now CEG photo moving into its fourth generation of Despite the monsoon-like rains the contractor has faced, “Mathiowetz has always been a great con- family ownership and just celebrated its tractor and partner that keeps moving and pushing to meet deadlines,” said Alison Berreth- 100-year anniversary last fall. Sandberg, MnDOT construction engineer. By the time the project wraps up, approximately 1 million cu. yds. of common excavation will have been removed.
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Table of &Contents . . . . ... .. .. . .. .. ... . ... . ... . ... .. .26-39 . . .4 Aggregate Recycling Section
Attachments Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47-51 Truck & Trailer Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55-59 Aggregate Recycling Concrete News & Section . . . . . . . .Section . . . . . . . . . .. .. . .. .. ... .26-39 . . .63-65 Snow & Ice Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71-75 Business Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 Attachments Auction Section . Section . . . . . . . . . .. ... .. ... .. ... .. .. . .. .. . .. .. ... .47-51 . . .80-85 Advertisers Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
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Mitigating Risk With Prefab Tech
Planning, Down to the Detail, Is Key to Building Success With Modular Components Truck & Trailer Section . . . . . . . . . . . .55-59 Adobe Stock photo
By Lucy Perry
Concrete News Section . . . . . . . . . . . .63-65 Snow & Ice Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71-75 Business Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 Auction Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80-85 Advertisers Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Prefab or modular construction can be the solution to eliminate risk and changeability on construction projects. With the use of this construction method, contractors can avoid the possible impacts of fickle weather, transportation glitches and jobsite staging challenges — if the process, from start to finish, is well thought out. Prefabrication demands planning down to the smallest detail, and Differing site conditions, material availability or consideration of every possible project threat. design considerations, no matter how small the dissee PREFAB page 70
crepancy, can render prefab components unusable.