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KC Will Host NADC Safety Summit

Kansas City, Mo., will serve as the host city of the 2002 Safety Summit, presented each year by the National Association of Demolition Contractors (NADC).

This year’s Summit will take place at the Kansas City Airport Marriott October 10 and 11. It is the eighth summit presented by the NADC, based in Doylestown, Pa.

Admission to the one-and-a-half day summit is $200, according to the NADC, and will include breakfast and lunch on Thurs., Oct. 10, and breakfast the following day.

At the event, safety professionals will cover a number of important topics, including state and federal regulations, personal safety precautions and hazardous waste/hazardous materials handling procedures at demolition sites.

Those seeking more information on the Safety Summit can contact the NADC at (215) 348-4949.

EBN ARCHIVES AVAILABLE

Environmental Building News (EBN), Brattleboro, Vt., is making the archives from its first 10 years of publication available on CD-ROM. Available for $149 ($95 for EBN subscribers), the CD-ROM features virtually all the content from the magazine’s first 10 years.

Other features include access to updated contact information, including Web sites, for the more than 450 building and construction products reviewed or mentioned by the magazine.

The CD-ROM’s search function lets the user search for pertinent stories by key word or subject, tapping into an index with more than 11,000 entries.

Those interested in EBN or its archives CD-ROM can view the publication’s Web site at www.buildinggreen.com.

HIGHWAYS REPORT PUBLISHED

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has released “Our Nation’s Highways - 2000,” a biennial publication that contains a range of information on the nation’s roads and highways, including expenditures for new highways and highway maintenance.

The FHWA has issued the publication every other year since 1983. The latest edition contains statistical data through calendar year 2000. The report is on the agency’s Web site at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/index.htm. Printed copies of the report are available through the FHWA’s Washington office, and copies also can be requested via emails to Millie.Wilson@fhwa.dot.gov.

The publication contains extensive information, on both a national and a state-by-state basis, including:

• highway and transportation expenditures;

• the number of vehicles and licensed drivers;

• fuel tax rates and the amount of fuel consumed; and

• highway fatalities.

Concerning expenditures, the year 2000 saw nearly $90 billion spent by states on highways, with 10.5 percent going toward new roads and bridges, 42.5 percent on widening and resurfacing projects and 10 percent on physical maintenance.