This summer, Lane acquired two new HMA plants in Florida and Virginia. In early August, Lane acquired a 325-ton per hour plant located on Port Authority property in Tampa. The facility will use aggregates brought into the Port by ocean-going vessels.

On August 28, Lane acquired the assets of the Contractors Paving Company in Norfolk. Established in 2003, this 16+ acre site has a counter flow drum mixer that has the capacity to produce 500 tons per hour. The plant, which has 159 employees, will operate under the Virginia Paving Company division of Lane.

Over the last couple of months, the estimating team has been successful on obtaining three new projects in the State of Florida. On September 24th, Lane was low bidder in the amount of $34.8 million for the reconstruction of Interstate 75 from SR 56 to CR 54 in Pasco County. On September 30th, Lane was successful bidder in the amount of $77.9 million for the reconstruction of the Florida Turnpike in Orange County. The design-build replacement of the Max Brewer Bridge in Titusville, Florida was let on December 3rd and Lane was again low bidder in the amount of $43.4 million for this major river crossing. All three projects are now in the early stages of mobilization along with assignment of personnel.

Effective November 30, 2008 Sunmount Corporation merged with The Lane Construction Corporation. The Texas office will continue to pursue civil projects in both the public and private sector. The Lane Construction Corporation provides expertise to both public and private owners in the construction of highways and bridges, locks and dams, mass transit systems, airport runways, aprons and taxiways.

Deep in the heart of Marion County in South Carolina, the Great Pee Dee River flows southerly across Route 378. On October 14th, the South Carolina DOT let a major contract to replace the existing bridge structure on this major east-west route between I-95 and Myrtle Beach. Rea Contracting, LLC was low bidder in the amount of $21.7 million. Work will begin in the first quarter of 2009. Rea Contracting, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lane Carolinas. It should also be noted that on September 16th, Rea Contracting was low bidder in the amount of $25.3 million for the North Carolina DOT for major highway reconstruction in Iredell County, North Carolina.

The Virginia Paving Company's recycling program has been named the Most Outstanding Business Program for 2008 by the Virginia Recycling Association (VRA). "Virginia Paving is using recycled materials to eliminate waste and energy required to build and maintain many of Northern Virginia's most traveled roadways," said Dennis Luzier, District Manager. "We are honored to be recognized for our efforts to improve, protect and enhance the environment."

VRA is a leading resource of recycling information for the general public, the Virginia General Assembly and local government.

"Virginia Paving received top honors because of its integrated waste management program involving reduction, reuse, recycling and buying recycled," said John Irvine of Old Town, a company spokesman. "In two years the company recycled 250,000 tons of old asphalt, asphalt that went back onto Virginia's roads instead of into Virginia's landfills."

The company also used two million gallons of recycled fuel oil, helping to reduce the industry's dependency on virgin fossil fuels.

Since 2006, the facility has invested over $3 million to operate more efficiently and in the process eliminating thousands of tons of pollutants, Irvine said. The plant built a $500,000 storm water management system, planted 282 large trees and underbrush over two acres at a cost of $178,000, purchased seven new clean-emission Tier-3 dump trucks at $790,000, and installed high-efficiency cartridge mist collectors that capture plant emissions for $1.6 million, he added.

The Alexandria branch of the Virginia Paving Company (a division of The Lane Construction Corporation), which he said employs 175 people, provides the surfaces in and around the city and on projects such as the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge, the Springfield Interchange, I-395, and the Beltway.

After a century in Meriden, CT, and the last fifty-six of those years in the same building, on December 17, 2007 the home office was officially moved approximately eight miles to the west, to the nearby town of Cheshire, and is readily accessible by Interstate 691. While the previous building will always be in the hearts and minds of employees, the new facility provides the Corporation with the opportunity to optimize administrative efficiencies that the Meriden location could no longer support, and will accommodate any potential growth of the Corporation. The new Corporate Office address is 90 Fieldstone Court, Cheshire, CT 06410.

Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that its subsidiary Fluor Enterprises and partner Transurban Group reached a final agreement with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) for the financing, design, construction, operation and maintenance of the new Capital Beltway High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes on Interstate 495 in Northern Virginia. Fluor is the managing partner of the approximately $1.4 billion design and construction contract working with The Lane Construction Corp.

Work will begin in spring 2008 with the new lanes opening in 2013. Today’s agreement is the culmination of more than five years of work among numerous local, private, regional, state and federal entities. Fluor and Transurban formed Capital Beltway Express LLC as the operating entity for the 80-year concession management of the I-495 HOT Lanes. Transurban will be the majority owner of the concession company with a 90 percent share and Fluor will be a 10 percent minority owner.

The project includes improvements and replacement of a significant portion of the aging infrastructure along a 14-mile stretch of the Capital Beltway in northern Virginia. In addition to improving the existing roadway, Fluor and Lane will construct four, new HOT lanes in the center section of the interstate. Vehicles with three or more passengers, buses and emergency vehicles will use the HOT lanes at no charge. Drivers with fewer passengers can choose to pay a variable toll to use this new express service. Existing free lanes will adjoin the HOT lanes.

The project will include:

• Two new lanes in each direction from the Springfield Interchange to just north of the Dulles Toll Road;
• First-time introduction of HOV to the Beltway and Tysons Corner;
• Congestion-free network for transit service on the Beltway;
• Replacement of more than $250 million of aging infrastructure, including replacement of 42 bridges and overpasses;
• Upgrades to 11 key interchanges;
• Construction of more than 70,000 linear feet (13 miles) of soundwalls to double existing protection for local neighborhoods;
• Construction of Springfield Interchange Phase VIII to create a seamless HOV network on I-95/395, Capital Beltway, I-66, the Dulles Toll Road and future HOV lanes on Braddock Road;
• Improved connection at I-66 to improve traffic flow onto the Beltway; and
• Three new access points to the Capital Beltway at Rt. 29/Lee Highway, Westpark Bridge and Jones Branch Drive.

More than 200,000 drivers a day use this stretch of the I-495 Interstate. The planned improvements on the Beltway will give commuters new options to more quickly reach their destination. Highway design modifications will increase traffic capacity and safety while minimizing the impact to neighboring homes and businesses.

For more information about the I-495 Capital Beltway Project go to www.virginiahotlanes.com.

On July 25, 2007, Lane was the low bidder at $65,912,763 and 900 days for the 3.5 mile widening and reconstruction of SR 50 in Orlando, FL for the Florida Department of Transportation. The improvements under this contract consist of widening State Route 50 to six lanes from west of SR 436 to west of SR 417 including a grade separated interchange at SR 436. In addition to the roadwork the project includes utility work, a drainage system, and pond excavation. Work on this project will begin in January, 2008. Some of the significant items of work include:

• Excavation                                       396,000 CY
• Embankment                                    191,000 CY
• 2 Parallel Bridges                              517 LF/EA
• RE Walls                                          43,000 SF
• Limerock Base 198,000 SY               132,000 TN
• Asphalt Paving                                  40,000 TN
• Drainage Structures                           419 EA
• Storm Drainage Pipe                         45,000 LF
• Box Culvert Dbl barrel                      603 CY
• PVC Force Main                                8,800 LF
• PVC Sanitary Sewer                         17,700 LF
• Sanitary Manholes                            80 EA
• Sanitary Sewer Pump Station            1 EA
• DI Water Main                                 12,300 LF

The Maryland Department of Transportation, State Highway Administration has awarded a new Design-Build Project to The Lane Construction Corporation in the amount of $26,548,000. This Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) project is an interchange reconstruction of I-495 at Arena Drive from MD 202 to MD 214 (2.7 miles). The principal designer for the project is Whitman, Requardt & Associates, LLP located in Baltimore, MD. Major construction activities are more than 8220 LF of CIP Median Barrier, 6,210 LF of Storm Drainage, 10,660 LF of Under drain, 58,000 cy of Unclassified Excavation, and 83,450 tons of HMA Paving. This fast-track design-build project is scheduled for completion in November 2008, nine month’s ahead of SHA’s anticipated completion date of August 2009.

Lanham, MD - The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) announced today that Virginia Paving Co. of Springfield, Va., a division of the Lane Construction Corp., has won its 2006 Asphalt Operations Safety Innovations Award. The company received the award on February 20, 2007, at NAPA’s 52nd Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.

The Asphalt Operations Safety Innovations award recognizes companies that develop innovative ideas or achieve practical outcomes that lead to improved worker safety in a roadway, plant site or quarry environment, and whose safety practices are above and beyond normal safety practices.

Virginia Paving Co. won the award for its work in alerting young drivers to the hazards of construction work zones. At the request of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), the company put together an exhibit on work-zone safety at the Prince William County Fairgrounds. The one-day event was geared toward young drivers with learner’s permits or new licenses. Almost 600 students from 15 high schools in Loudoun, Fairfax and Prince William Counties attended.

The teens walked through the exhibit, which included a sample full-lane closure, complete with signs and barriers. “We showed them why we have to put up the work zones and why we need to control speed through the area,” said Philip Frazier, assistant plant manager for the company’s Chantilly, Loudoun, Alexandria and Fredericksburg plants. “We explained what they should look for in construction zones.”

Displays emphasized the human cost of work-zone accidents. An oversized tombstone gave students the grim statistics on Virginia’s work-zone accidents in 2005: 2,443 crashes, 1,187 injuries and 14 fatalities. “Many of them were shocked,” Frazier continued. “They really had no understanding that there was a problem, that drivers really do crash through cones and barrels. And many had not thought about the flagmen and other workers in terms of their families.

“VDOT has already said that they want us to come back and do the same thing next year,” Frazier added. “We hope to enlist some fire and rescue departments to take part next year as well.”

Virginia Paving Co. also has developed a DVD on work-zone safety that can be used in drivers’ education classes. The black and white video, which follows a flagger through the workday, emphasizes the impact that work-zone accidents can have on workers and their families. The company will ask drivers’ ED teachers in Fairfax, Loudoun, Spottsylvania, Prince William and Stafford Counties for time to show the program in their classes.

On February 22, Lane was awarded another major contract in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania for the reconstruction and widening of SR 28, Sects. A44 & A45 in the amount of $35.8 million. The anticipated start date is March 12, 2007 with completion scheduled for August 22, 2008. The project involves adding a third lane northbound for 5 miles of PA State Route 28, northeast of Pittsburgh, PA. near Lane's Springdale asphalt plant. The project also includes widening 2 bridges including substructures, deck repairs to 10 other bridges, bridge painting, concrete patching and bituminous overlay for 14 miles of highway, numerous drainage extensions and some miscellaneous concrete paving. The job has a very aggressive schedule with over $26 million of the $36 million scheduled to be completed by the end of 2007.

During the month of January, 2007 Lane was awarded a $31.5 million contract in central Florida for the Florida Department of Transportation. The new project is for improvments including milling, widening, resurfacing, removal of dual bridges, replace with single bridge, drainage improvements, landscaping, signalization, lighting, highway signing and pavement markings on State Road 25 (US27) from a point south of State Road 60 northerly 2.8 miles to a point north of Towerview Blvd in the city of Lake Wales in Polk County. The existing 4 lane divided roadway will be reconstructed to become a 6 lane divided highway and will be completed in 675 calendar days.

On January 17, 2007, The Lane Construction Corporation was awarded a new substantial design-build contract. The North Carolina Department of Transportation awarded a $59.5 million contract to Lane for re-construction of a section of Interstate 77 in Yadkin County. The project will involve the demolition and reconstruction of more than 215,000 sy of concrete pavement under major traffic control conditions. Ground-breaking will be on February 5th, and completion is expected to be in June of 2009.

As the second quarter of 2006 rolls to an end, The Lane Construction Corporation has been awarded several new major contracts. The Orange Osceola County Expressway Authority awarded a $125 million contract to Lane for reconstruction of another section of the busy SR 408 Toll Road through the City of Orlando, Florida. The company is already under contract for another section of SR408 valued at more than $61 million. Also in Florida, a combined total of more than $22 million of work was awarded to Lane by the Florida Department of Transportation for two projects to reconstruct SR 25 and US 27 North and South in Polk County. In Northern Virginia, Lane was awarded a $43 million contract to perform all the grading and drainage for the new 4th Runway at Dulles International Airport. This fast-track project is now underway.

Robert E. Alger has received the Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award from Penn State’s College of Engineering. Alger earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Penn State in 1979. The annual Outstanding Engineering Alumni Awards are the highest honor conferred by the College of Engineering. Only 262 men and women—out of more than 75,000 alumni worldwide— have received the award since it was established in 1966. Alger is president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of The Lane Construction Corporation in Meriden, CT. He began his career with Lane in 1979 as a job engineer for a dam construction project in Pennsylvania. Within several months, he was transferred to another dam construction project in Texas, where he took on project engineer duties as well. Since then, Alger has held a number of leadership positions at Lane. In 1990, he was promoted to superintendent. This was followed by promotions to assistant district manager in 1992 and district manager in 1996. During this time, Alger was assigned to a number of multi-year construction projects in Pennsylvania, Texas, and Connecticut. Alger was named vice president in 1997 and executive vice president in 1999. He was appointed to his current position in 2001. Alger is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania and currently serves on Penn State’s Industrial and Professional Advisory Council for the civil engineering department. He and his wife, Joan, live in Avon, CT. They have two children

During the first quarter of 2006, Lane's work load at Dulles Airport in Virginia continued to grow. The Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority announced in early February that Lane was awarded a project to build the Phase II South Section of the North Area Road System at Dulles Airport in the amount of $18,564,000. Lane recently completed the $8.5 million Phase I portion of the project. Crews will mobilize immediately to begin this critical portion of the new access roads and bridges into the busy airport terminal. Lane's operations in Central Florida continue to grow with the recent award of a $16.3 million project for Osceola County for the widening and reconstruction of Kissimmee Park Road. Lane is currently negotiating an additional contract with the County to install major underground utilities along the widening corridor. Also during the first quarter of 2006, Lane's plant and material business has been very busy bringing in more than $40 million of new work from Maine to Florida.