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Three bridges receive Slag Cement Association awards
Nine outstanding construction projects that used slag cement received 2017 Project of the Year Awards from the Slag Cement Association (SCA) during the American Concrete Institute’s 2018 Spring Convention in Salt Lake City. Each project was selected by the SCA’s Technical Marketing Committee because of its exemplary and innovative uses of slag cement in concrete […]
April 13, 2018
Roadbuilding
Construction company called out for substandard concrete
The state of Idaho is not happy with the construction company replacing two Interstate-90 bridges because it’s using substandard concrete in portions of the project. Luckily routine quality controls by the Idaho Transportation Department discovered the problem before it’s late. The columns holding up the bridge passed inspection, but the concrete being used to construct the […]
October 15, 2014
Roadbuilding
The Durable Performance of Perpetual Pavements
When the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) opened a new stretch of U.S. Highway 151 in Linn County back in 1966, they wanted a road that would last a long time, but they never imagined the traffic loads and heavy-weight trucks that drive on U.S. highways today. Despite this, U.S. 151 is still in place and in […]
October 4, 2013
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