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Construction welding: Electric arc welding all around of large bore underground steel pipe. Worker grinds top weld while lying down welder welds lower half. Pipe is supported by wood blocking/cribbing. Dixboro Bridge, Ann Arbor, 2004
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Construction welding: Electric arc welding all around of large bore underground steel pipe. Worker grinds top weld while lying down welder welds lower half. Pipe is supported by wood blocking/cribbing. Dixboro Bridge, Ann Arbor, 2004

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  • Construction welding: Electric arc welding all around of large bore underground steel pipe. Worker grinds top weld while lying down welder welds lower half. Pipe is supported by wood blocking/cribbing. Dixboro Bridge, Ann Arbor, 2004
  • Concrete construction: Tying reinforcing steel (resteel) bars (rebars) for reinforced concrete bridge deck. Resteel is coated with green colored epoxy to resist corrosion from winter road salting. Rebars are placed in top and bottom of slab, both longitudinal (along length of bridge deck) and transverse (across deck). Rebars are tied at intersections to provide support and hold them in place until concrete is cast around them for bridge deck. Broadway Bridge, Ann Arbor, 2003.
  • Worker inside cofferdam is cutting off the top of the sheet pile with an acetylene torch. Broadway Bridge, Ann Arbor, 2003.
  • Ironworkers bolt wide flange beam in position in erecting structural steel for YMCA, Ann Arbor, 2004
  • Rear haul truck travels with Blaw-Knox asphalt paving machine laying 8 ft wide strip of hot mix asphalt. Sam's, Ann Arbor.
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  • Operator at controls of Wirtgen W2000 asphalt cold milling machine. Huron Parkway, 2003, Ann Arbor
  • Road construction, masonry construction: Workers placing brick pavers in herringbone pattern for traffic ramp to bridge. Pavers are placed on sand base supported by a concrete base. Pavers are covered with sand to fill voids between bricks. Broadway Bridge and Depot Street, Ann Arbor, 2004.
  • Landscape construction: Laborer uses hand rake to smooth sloped wall of runoff water catchment. Sams Club, Ann Arbor, 2003.
  • Construction: Two structural steel erection ironworkers at lunch break. They are sitting on one of the timbers that provides a good base for the tracked crane behind them. In the foreground is a small carpenters fabrication shop, consisting of two sawhorses and powered hand tools. Cardiovascular Care, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March, 2004.
  • Steel construction: Three man structural ironworker crew unhooks large, high steel truss from crane. All are wearing fall protection: body harness with safety lanyard attached by sliding clip to top flange of truss. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2004.
  • Earth moving construction: Operating engineer operates front end loader on construction of Dixboro Bridge, Ann Arbor, MI, 2004.
  • Earthmoving construction: Operating Engineer operates Caterpillar 350 crawler mounted hydraulic backhoe loading soil onto tandem rear dumping trucks. Dixboro Bridge, Ann Arbor, 2004.
  • Earth moving construction: Bobcat 863 skid-steer tractor with stone separating blade/bucket lifts and sifts soil to extract and separate stones. In upper right, operator is picking out and tossing away soil clumps that sifted out with stones. Dixboro Bridge, Ann Arbor, MI, 2004.
  • Earthmoving construction: Dancing drummers in Korean dress entertain audience at Daewoo exhibit. Photo by S. Carr. CONEXPO, March 15-19, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Earthmoving construction: Bucket of Komatsu PC1800 giant mining/ construction backhoe excavator. It features a 15.7 yd3 buck and 2 Komatsu Saa6D140E-2 engines generating a compound output of 908 hp. CONEXPO, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 15, 2005.
  • Precast concrete construction, bridge constrruction: Two workers happy to be hauling, spotting, and disconnecting the 120 ft precast bridge girders for their erection as stringers on the Dixboro Bridge over Huron River, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005.
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