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Roadbuilding

I-440 reconstruction plan for Nashville progresses, TDOT says

The Tennessee Department of Transportation has released the request for proposals for widening and revamping Interstate 440 in Nashville, with construction scheduled to begin this summer. TDOT says the project will involve replacing deteriorated concrete with asphalt, widening the road in each direction from two lanes to three including the bridges over I-65, and replacing […]

February 2, 2018

Roadbuilding

Improvements planned on Interstates 17, 40 in northern Ariz.

The new year will bring a slew of improvements to major roads in northern Arizona, according to the state’s department of transportation. First on the list is applying a final layer of asphalt on 12 miles of Interstate 40 between Parks and Riordan. After that, another 17 miles of the interstate will be repaved between […]

January 29, 2018

Roadbuilding

Associated Asphalt to supply Fla. ports in Puma deal

Puma Energy and Associated Asphalt have signed agreements to supply asphalt to Florida port terminals. Associated Asphalt will take over retail asphalt marketing for Trafigura, Puma’s largest shareholder, at Jacksonville, Cape Canaveral and Port Everglades. Puma will handle the supply chain into those terminals. Associated Asphalt will also be responsible for supply and marketing at […]

January 24, 2018

Dealers

Equipment Roundup: Cat intros 3 cold planers; Liebherr intros telehandler lineup; Grove GMK4090 designed for tight jobsites; Mack Granite test drive; Inside Liebherr T 236 testing

Cat intros PM820, PM822, PM825 cold planers with grade control integration Caterpillar has introduced three new cold planer models that the company says are capable of controlled, full-depth removal of asphalt and concrete pavements in a single pass. The new PM820, PM 822 and PM825 are each powered by a Cat C18 engine producing 755 […]

November 14, 2017

Business

Western Rock Products celebrates 50 years

Western Rock Products in St. George, Utah, will mark 50 years in business in 2017. It plans to celebrate by holding two separate events for its employees and customers, and participating in a local parade. The company started in 1967 as a supplier of asphalt, paving, and construction services in Cedar City. Today, it provides […]

October 3, 2017

Roadbuilding

Contractors seeing lower cost, better consistency from recycled road materials

The conversation about asphalt pavement sustainability covers a broad spectrum of variables. Sustainability not only includes the longevity of a road, but the inputs, such as materials and production process and all the factors associated with them. The main focus, however, comes back to recyclability of materials, including primarily reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and recycled […]

September 15, 2017

Roadbuilding

Sweeper Trucks: Another tool for prepping roadways for better pavements

A cleaner workspace is always a good thing, but in paving, it can contribute to the road’s quality, if done prior to additional lifts being applied, before seal coating and following milling. Paving contractors can use several sweeping options: they can own their own sweeping trucks, rent them or contract with a sweeping company to […]

September 11, 2017

Roadbuilding

Two paving company employees arrested for purchasing asphalt with hot checks

The New Holland (Pa.) Police Department reports that two people from Traditional Paving, a Lancaster paving company, have been arrested for writing six bounced checks for asphalt, according to PennLive. Police told the news agency that Dorothy Miller and George Stanley were charged with theft by deception and criminal conspiracy for issuing bounced checks totaling […]

July 6, 2017

Roadbuilding

Steel-infused asphalt heals itself when heated

Christopher Schlangen, a PhD student at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has developed a steel-infused self-healing asphalt that can be heated to get rid of potholes, cracks and loose stones, Futurism reports. The technology adds steel wool to bitumin, the binding agent that asphalt uses to hold the stones together. If asphalt that […]

May 24, 2017

Roadbuilding

Evolution of the Asphalt Paver: Operator ergonomics, visibility and controls lead advancements

When you boil it down, not much has really changed about the asphalt paver. It’s still a tractor laying down and spreading material as it travels. But that simple principle required a lot of setup, skill and man-hours to perform. So the changes in the equipment over the years have progressed with the goal of […]

April 21, 2017

Roadbuilding

Best management practices for quality pavements when using recycled materials

Asphalt is one of the most recycled materials in use today, a fact that was touted several times during the recent National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) meeting in Orlando. In 2015, reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), represented 21.4 percent of the content of hot mix and warm mix asphalt used in the United States. NAPA says […]

March 23, 2017

Roadbuilding

Highway Contractor: New milling machines, best practices provide smooth results

Cold planers or mills are the rough-and-tumble predecessors to the glamour equipment of pavers and rollers, but the work they do is at least as critical, if not more so, to the rideability and smoothness of a finished pavement. Standard purposes for milling machines are to either remove an existing pavement, restore a surface […]

February 2, 2017