Midwest 25, December 11, 2021

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Cater pillar Hosts E vent to Showcase Cold Planers...8

Doosan Unveils DD100 Dozer, Much More for 2022...14

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The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is building a new interchange on Interstate 65 at Boone County Road 550 South and redesigning the I-65 and State Road 267 interchange at Whitestown Exit 133. “The purpose of the project is to improve traffic operations along the I65 corridor, from I-865 to S.R. 267 near Whitestown and to provide improved connectivity between I-65 and the rapidly developing area By Lori Lovely

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Kirby-Smith Machiner y’s David Mehr tens Passes Away...34

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along the C.R. 550 S corridor,” explained Debbie Calder, communications director of INDOT’s Crawfordsville district. Planned Growth Last year, Whitestown was ranked Indiana’s fastest-growing community for the eighth consecutive year. Its population increased from 3,132 to 8,627 between 2010 and 2018, when talks about this project began. Over see INDOT page 64

Aggregate & Recycling Section..........................35-48

Industry Ready to Dive Into Infrastructure Work

Attachments & Parts Section ......................................53-58

As Agencies Assess Priorities, Contractors Prepare for Influx of Infrastructure Projects5

Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................65-71

By Lucy Perry

Snow & Ice Section ....79-85

The ink is still drying on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) as the construction industry awaits bid-letting and Congress turns to the reconciliation budget bill. After a long, hard-fought battle for funding, the industry is ready to get to work on these broad-spectrum infrastructure projects,

Auction Section ..........90-97 Business Calendar ............96 Advertisers Index ..............98

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which will color the national construction picture for years to come. “America finally has a generation-defining infrastructure bill — and if the reconciliation budget comes through, too, America will begin a building spree larger than what happened during the New Deal,” observed Brookings Institution. It’s “worth pausing to consider” the enormisee INFRASTRUCTURE page 22