Welcome to this week’s fastest minute in construction. I’m Nate Beck, Daily Reporter staff writer.

Let’s dig into the news.

The list of contractors going to work in Racine County got a little longer this week.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation named 12 companies that will work on an $80 job to repair part of Interstate 94, near Foxconn Technology Group’s incoming factory. Ten of the dozen contractors are based in Wisconsin.

The work is part of the agency’s effort to rebuild an 18-mile stretch of I-94 by memorial day of 2020.

WisDOT plans to award the work in three stages, and has already picked Brownsville-based Michels corp as the lead contractor on the $80 million dollar I-94 job, and another one that fetches nearly $170 million dollars.

After a torrent of rain that washed out roads and left one dead in northeast Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the feds are kicking in for the cleanup effort.

The Federal Highway Administration announced Tuesday that it would contribute $2 million to help repair roads ruined by flooding in the UP in mid-june.

Up to 7 inches of rain fell in parts of the UP. The widespread flooding also caused sinkholes and flash-flooding that wiped out roads and bridges throughout the region.

Finally, Northwestern Mutual’s Seven Seventy Seven skyscraper is nearing completion as residents began moving into luxury apartments there this week.

Construction is set to wrap up in August, a little over two years after crews broke ground on the 34-story, $100 million dollar project, which overlooks Lake Michigan.

It’s the second big project Northwestern Mutual has embarked on in downtown Milwaukee, of late. The company recently wrapped up its $450 million headquarters building nearby also.

That’s it for this week’s punch list. We’ll see you next week.

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