VRB Newsletter
November 10, 2021 Archives
 
Features
 
After more than three months, the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA) was finally approved by the House, a bipartisan bill previously passed in the Senate. 
The Red Wave Election night has brought a seismic shift of the partisan alignment in the Commonwealth.
  
A successful construction project doesn’t end when the design is completed.  That was the message delivered to attendees during a panel discussion led by Tom Hartman, PE Harrisonburg’s Director of Public Works, Gordon Dixon, VTCA Executive Vice President, and VTCA contractors at last month’s Annual VDOT Local Assistance Workshop in Norfolk.
 
Crumpler Plastic Pipe, Inc.
Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP
 
Member News
 
This is an opportunity for individual members from four leading trade organizations responsible for conceptualizing, building, and maintaining the transportation infrastructure and new construction projects in Northern Virginia to meet legislators representing Northern Virginia.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring all employers with 100 or more employees to mandate COVID-19 vaccination or testing and masking for workers who choose to remain unvaccinated. 
Each fall we write to confirm your continuing membership in VTCA, the state’s largest association dedicated solely to advancing the interests of the transportation construction and aggregates industries.
 
Better Than a Google Search
Naylor Association Solutions®
VTCA Online Buyers’ Guide
It’s the fastest way to find the products and services you need within Virginia’s transportation construction industry.

Advertising Opportunities Available! Promote your company to the industry decision makers.
Click here to learn more
Advertisement
 
 
 
Carolina Sunrock LLC
Concrete Pipe and Precast, LLC
 
Industry News
 
  
Following a one-year hiatus induced by the COVID-19 pandemic the Transportation Construction Management Institute returns in February for its 33rd year! 

space

VDOT has announced Denise Cantwell, PE as the new Northern Virginia District Construction Engineer. 
Permit applicants who have pending applications with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for construction projects may have received word in the last two weeks that the Army Corps has paused finalization of any permit decisions that relied on Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rules  that were adopted by the Trump Administration in July 2020 and were recently vacated by a U.S. federal court. 
 
Naylor Association Solutions