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Roadbuilding

Hot weather causing Utah roads to buckle and crumble

Extremely hot weather is wreaking havoc on Utah roads, causing the roadways to buckle and crumble and keeping the state Department of Transportation (UDOT) busy making repairs, kutv.com reports. “Utah is the perfect place for these kind of buckling issues to happen, because we have the extreme temperatures,” UDOT’s John Gleason told the news agency. […]

July 5, 2017

Roadbuilding

UDOT removes pedestrian bridge over Bangerter Hwy.

The time-lapse video below shows the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) removing a pedestrian bridge over Bangerter Highway at 7000 South in West Jordan, Utah. The highway was closed to traffic on a Saturday night so the bridge could be removed to allow work on a new freeway-style interchange at that location. The bridge is […]

June 15, 2017

Roadbuilding

Utah governor appoints 2 members to state transportation commission

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has appointed Larry Ellertson and Donna Law to the Utah State Transportation Commission to replace two members whose terms expired. Ellertson also has been named commission chair. The commission is an “independent advisory commission that prioritizes the Utah Department of Transportation’s state-wide projects and decides how funds allocated for transportation by […]

May 17, 2017

Roadbuilding

Utah Senate OKs deal to transfer millions from transportation to water and education

The Utah Senate approved a measure that would siphon off about $337.7 million from the state’s transportation fund to be used on education and water projects. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the bill allows the state to send $172.2 million from transportation to the general fund over the next seven years, mostly for education, along […]

March 14, 2016

Roadbuilding

ACPA presents awards for sustainable practices, lifetime pavement and technical achievement

The American Concrete Pavement Association recognized three agencies for technical, lifetime pavement and sustainable practices achievements at its recent annual meeting. Harold J. Halm Presidential Award The Wisconsin Department of Transportation received the Harold J. Halm Presidential Award for its life cycle cost and pavement type selection policies that ACPA says recognize the “importance that […]

December 25, 2015

Roadbuilding

Utah DOT: ‘Get your head out of your apps’

“Get your head out of your apps.” That’s the playfully blunt message drivers in Utah got on Monday on electric highway signs in the state this week, according to KSL in Salt Lake City. Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of highway deaths in the era of smartphones, and the Utah Department of […]

November 11, 2015

Roadbuilding

Ten state DOT projects named America’s Transportation Awards finalists

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), along with AAA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have selected the top 10 project finalists from this year’s regional winners of the America’s Transportation Awards (ATA). Each year four regional competitions are held and the 10 winners with the highest overall scores are selected […]

August 26, 2015

Roadbuilding

Utah DOT hosts a transportation summit for middle school girls

The Utah Department of Transportation is trying to get more young women to consider the transportation industry as a potential career choice. With that aim, the department recently hosted a transportation summit for 53 middle school girls from across Salt Lake County, Fox 13 in Salt Lake City reported. The summit had professionals from across the […]

June 5, 2015

Roadbuilding

Utah DOT getting creative with electric roadside signs during “100 deadliest” traffic days

Utah’s Department of Transportation has a message to drivers: You look good. With a seatbelt on, that is. UDOT has started changing the message on its electric road signs to raise traffic safety awareness, the Deseret News reported. Instead of the ominous “Click it or Ticket,” UDOT’s new signs let drivers know “That seat belt […]

June 4, 2015

Roadbuilding

Squad of excavators chews up a bridge in 30-second demolition time-lapse

Time-lapse photography may have begun with capturing the movements of people and growing plants, but as it has matured, it’s a photographic technique that feels tailor-made for construction and demolition. There’s a universal wonder the technique taps into when seeing structures appear and disappear, seemingly out of thin air. And with cameras and methods becoming […]

April 7, 2015

Roadbuilding

Civil engineers give Utah roads and bridges “B+” grade

In its “2015 Report Card for Utah’s Infrastructure” report, The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the state a B+ grade for the condition of roads and bridges there. Roughly 83 percent of Utah’s interstates are in good condition, with only 1 percent being in poor condition, ASCE reports. While the roads received a decent grade, the ASCE […]

February 25, 2015

Roadbuilding

No Strings Attached

How the use of stringless paving technology on the UTAH I-15 Corridor Expansion Project saved time and money.

January 8, 2014