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At the CAWV, we stay on top of emerging news. Each day, staff members read numerous newspapers from throughout the state, looking for information on jobs coming up for bid, projects currently ongoing, issues affecting construction in West Virginia, and any other information having an impact on our members and their ability to “Build a Better West Virginia.” Sometimes, we share the information in the CAWV Newsletter, but Construction Matters allows us to communicate news of interest from throughout the state to members, keeping them informed. Construction Matters is sent each Tuesday.

 

 
(WVVA Bluefield 2/28) The third phase of the East Beckley bypass has received the green light. There are two construction contracts now in place for the next two phases of the project.
 
 
 
 
 
(WOWK TV 2/28) Renovations can be expensive, and can be even more difficult if you're a budget. But Cabell County leaders have figured out how to improve the courthouse at little cost to the taxpayers.
 
 
 
 
 
(The Republic 2/28) West Virginia University is proposing a revenue bond sale to help pay for construction of a new animal research facility.
 
 
 
 
 
(Coshocton Tribune 3/1) State officials say redeveloping former industrial sites that are free of contamination is important to West Virginia's economic future and lawmakers are hoping that offering potential buyers access to environmental data and monitoring will make the properties more desirable.
 
 
 
 
 
(Huntington Herald Dispatch 3/1) A bill that provides the financial backing to build a lodge and conference center at Beech Fork State Park in Wayne County cleared the state Senate on Wednesday.
 
 
 
 
 
(Williamson Daily Telegraph 3/1) “The grant acquired by West Virginia State allows for the construction of ten of the tunnel greenhouses, but the first one we have assembled to be used for a community garden is this one in Williamson,” said Hudson. “We purchase all the supplies locally, in an effort to put that money back into the community.”
 
 
 
 
 
(Bluefield Daily Telegraph 3/1) Sen. Mark Wills, D-Mercer, said the issue of using tolls to help build the future four-lane corridor was proposed during a recent meeting with Mercer County officials in Charleston. If there is support for a toll concept, it could be pursued by lawmakers in a future legislative session, according to Wills.
 
 
 
 
 
(WVNS TV 3/1) Toyota is planning a $45 million expansion of its plant in West Virginia that's expected to create 80 jobs. Toyota said Thursday that the expansion will increase the Buffalo plant's annual production capacity of 6-speed automatic transmissions from about 400,000 to 520,000.
 
 
 
 
 
(WV Gazette 3/1) Projections are that, over the next 25 years, the state will need more than $39 billion to maintain the 36,000 miles of roadway and 6,850 bridges in the state highways system, Transportation Secretary Paul Mattox told members of two House committees Thursday.
 
 
 
 
 
(Bluefield Daily Telegraph 3/2) The city of Welch has agreed to implement a long-term plan to eliminate sewer overflows as part of a settlement involving violations of the Clean Water Act.
 
 
 
 
 
(Beckley Register Herald 3/2) Federal funds have been allocated for hazard mitigation for a Greenbrier County site that has been flooded repeatedly, U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall announced Wednesday.
 
 
 
 
 
(Logan Banner 3/2) The new Candlewood Suites in downtown Logan got under construction Tuesday and is scheduled to be completed by the end of May.
 
 
 
 
 
(WV Gazette 3/3) Building 2000 at the West Virginia Regional Technology Park is being renovated for Kanawha Valley Community and Technical College.
 
 
 
 
 
(Bluefield Daily Telegraph 3/4) After being rejected for the same grant funding in December, the Mercer County Commission and the King Coal Highway Authority are correctly reapplying in an attempt to secure a $20 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant. The deadline to apply for a TIGER IV grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation is March 19. Mercer County is seeking $20 million from a pool of $500 million in federal funds.
 
 
 
 
 
(WV Gazette 3/5) Kanawha County school board members are moving forward with plans to renovate the shuttered Chandler Elementary School on Charleston's West Side to house an alternative education program for high school and middle school students. On Monday, the school board signed off on a $237,565 contract with Tri-State Roofing & Sheet Metal Co. to replace the roof at the old elementary school.
 
 
 
 
 
(WOWK TV Charleston 3/5) Phase one will focus on an 11-mile section of the highway from Plantation Road to Beach Hill, where the four-lane highway begins, Walker said. That phase will cost $12 million and will run March 12 through Nov. 1, 2012. Phase two will improve a two-mile section from the Buffalo Bridge to Plantation Road, he said. It will cost $7 million. No start date has been set for that part of the project.
 
 
 
 
 
(Beckley Register Herald 3/6) Unless we get some drastic snowfall during the next month, the West Virginia Division of Highways is projecting a significant surplus in its budget as a result of the relatively small number of snowstorms that have hit the Mountain State since late last year.
 
 
 
 
 
(Charleston Daily Mail 3/6) The West Virginia Parkways Authority is set to contact developers this week to begin the process of building a hotel next to Tamarack in Beckley.
 
 
 
 
 
(State Journal 3/5) Parcels of land along Adams Street in downtown Fairmont will be the site of a new four-story state office building, according to Secretary of State Natalie Tennant.