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Fermilab Today—November 5, 2010

IB3 addition nears completion

The future site of Fermilab�s new materials laboratory space has evolved from a steel outline to a fully enclosed building over the past five months.
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Fermilab Today—October 22, 2010

Recovery Act gives LBNE team chance to grow

Thanks to funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the collaboration for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment, LBNE, has expanded its project team.
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Fermilab Today—October 15, 2010

Local company completes FCC roof construction

A local construction company recently completed work on the roof of the Feynman Computing Center, an important step in an ongoing project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Fermilab Today—September 24, 2010

MI-8 addition equipped for heavy lifting

Construction workers building the addition to MI-8 recently installed a bridge crane the Accelerator Division will use to maneuver parts and equipment.
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Fermilab Today—September 3, 2010

Autos to accelerators

In a town haunted by the remains of fallen automobile plants, Niowave and other companies like it are hiring workers to put their car-manufacturing skills toward building particle accelerators.
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Fermilab Today—August 20, 2010

Progress at NOvA

Construction crews building the NOvA detector facility in Ash River, Minn., have almost completed the walls of the detector enclosure.
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Fermilab Today—August 20, 2010

Recovery Act funds new projects, new opportunities

About 200 Chicago-area tradespeople will find work constructing Fermilab�s first superconducting radio-frequency cryomodule test facility during the next year.
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Fermilab Today—August 6, 2010

ARRA funds improvements to west side of Wilson Hall

Construction workers have entered the final phase of the Wilson Hall generator installation project.
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Fermilab Today—July 30, 2010

Largest NOvA purchase supports business

In June Fermilab placed its largest purchase order related to the NOvA neutrino experiment and, in the process, provided a boost to a company headquartered in Ohio.
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Fermilab Today—July 16, 2010

Recovery Act funds keep Fermilab wired

Electrician Stan Kramer spent the better part of a recession-hit 2009 unemployed. Then, last March, he received the call from Arlington Electric that he was needed for a newly created job at Fermilab.
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Fermilab Today—July 2, 2010

Recovery Act helps family business

This year Fermilab construction projects funded by the Recovery Act have been a major source of income for the Bohr family construction company, Don Bohr and Sons.
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Fermilab Today—June 25, 2010

New Muon Lab construction almost half completed

As of this week, Michigan-based company Barton Malow had completed 46 percent of the construction work on the New Muon Lab Extension.
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Fermilab Today—June 11, 2010

Work-in-progress: IB-3 addition shaping up

The steel shell for the Industrial Building 3 addition is now in place, marking the future location of Fermilab's new materials laboratory space.
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Fermilab Today—May 28, 2010

Recovery Act funds two new cryostats

A local company, Ability Engineering Technology Inc., is building two cryostats for Fermilab with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Fermilab Today—May 21, 2010

Expansion project to match form to function

The MI-8 building is actually a service building for the 8 GeV line in the accelerator complex. It�s an awkward fit for the technicians and their equipment.
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Fermilab Today—May 14, 2010

Expansion project to provide local jobs

A new construction project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will give a boost to local companies and provide much-needed space to the technicians who support Fermilab�s neutrino program.
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Fermilab Today—April 30, 2010

Blasting at NOvA complete

Crews finished blasting granite to clear an area measuring about 50 by 70 by 350 feet for the detector facility. On Tuesday, they will pour the first concrete in the cleared area.
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Fermilab Today—April 16, 2010

New beamlines mean business for contractors

This week at the New Muon Lab digging began for a tunnel to house the laboratory�s new superconducting radio-frequency test accelerator, which will be the first of its kind.
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Fermilab Today—March 19, 2010

ARRA funds construction for industrial building

Using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Fermilab awarded the $2.7 million construction contract to A.J. Maggio Co., a firm based in Mt. Prospect, Illinois.
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