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Business

Are Americans “not willing to pay” for longer-lasting roads?

Over at our sister site Better Roads, columnist Kirk Landers has put together a pretty interesting, and brutally honest, estimation of the glaring discrepancy between Americans’ calls for quality, longer-lasting roads and their willingness to pay for them. You see, it’s pothole season, the time of year when road crews all over the nation get […]

May 13, 2013

Gear

Wirtgen’s plug-and-play AutoPilot Field Rover eliminates stringlines

Last week, we told you about Wirtgen receiving an innovation award at the latest Bauma construction equipment show in Munich. We wrote in that post about why Bauma chose to give Wirtgen that award, but today we’ve got a bit more information about the product itself. Stringlines have been guiding paving machines for a long […]

April 25, 2013

Construction Equipment

Wirtgen wins a Bauma 2013 innovation award with “virtual stringlines” and the AutoPilot Field Rover

The Bauma construction equipment trade show, currently wrapping up in Munich, Germany has named its five innovations award winners for 2013. The show received 156 entries from  Germany and abroad” and narrowed the field to 15 before choosing six winners. Wirtgen was named as one of those award winners for its “AutoPilot Field Rover” entry for  succeeding […]

April 19, 2013

Business

Better Roads: 38% of highway construction sites saw car crashes in past year

John Latta, editor of our sister publication Better Roads, has written an impassioned blog post with a very important topic: road construction work zone safety. According to John’s post, 38 percent of highway contractors who responded to a survey by the Associated General Contractors of America saw motor vehicles crash into their construction work zones in […]

April 19, 2013

Gear

Wirtgen Group unveils Hamm H 25i compactor with crusher drum, new smaller rollers at Bauma

In an enormous, two story outdoor exhibition space at Bauma, Wirtgen has tucked away several new machines and innovative technologies. Wirtgen cut its teeth in grinding and milling machines before acquiring compaction equipment manufacturer Hamm. Now they’ve cleverly combined the basic design of a concrete/asphalt milling drum with a vibrating roller to create a “crusher […]

April 15, 2013

Construction Equipment

Colorful asphalt coatings could keep cities cooler

More so than any other color, black absorbs sunlight and then radiates that heat. And when black asphalt comprises one-third to two-fifths of the surface area in many cities, things can get pretty warm in the summer months. So in an effort to cool down the country’s urban areas, researchers in California are testing more […]

April 9, 2013

Construction Equipment

Big Bertha, world’s largest tunnel-boring machine, arrives in Seattle

The “Big” in Bertha’s name isn’t there for the catchiness. It’s there because it’s apt. With a 57-foot diameter and a length of a football field, Big Bertha is the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine. She’s quite hefty too. Bertha is assembled from 41 parts, the largest of which weighs in at 900 tons. And she […]

April 4, 2013

Business

Dynapac equipment to show off new Atlas Copco colors, branding at Bauma

Dynapac equipment will soon drop its familiar yellow and red color scheme for yellow and gray. Atlas Copco announced today that it has decided to change the color scheme and badge branding on its Dynapac range of rollers, planers and pavers in order to match the visual identity used by other divisions in the company’s […]

April 3, 2013

Construction Equipment

What it takes to pave a parking lot, Part 2: Rollers

Editor’s Note: If you haven’t already, be sure to check out Part 1 of this series on pavers by clicking here. If we do some math, we can calculate that the hypothetical Walmart parking lot we began paving in Part 1 of this pieces, should take two days if everything works right, says Chris Connolly, […]

April 2, 2013

Construction Equipment

What it takes to pave a parking lot, Part 1: The Pavers

Just imagine that it’s a sunny spring morning in suburban America, and that our job is to pave and compact the asphalt for a large Walmart parking lot. We posed just that task to seven equipment manufacturers and asked them what pavers and rollers they would choose, and the reasons for their selections. Today, we’ll […]

April 1, 2013

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English county announces pothole work in the style of Frank Sinatra

Thanks to our sister publication Better Roads for sharing this gem. Apparently, the Worcestershire County Council in England has heard its constituents loud and clear and has begun working to fix its potholes. To get the word out about the road construction, the council made this fairly amazing video in the style of Frank Sinatra’s […]

March 29, 2013

Construction Equipment

Boston tests asphalt alternatives for filling potholes

According to a report from our sister publication Better Roads, the city of Boston is considering three alternatives to asphalt for repairing potholes. Because the materials are more expensive than asphalt, the main benefit is that they fill potholes faster, are more friendly toward the environment and can be easily transported in bags and buckets. […]

March 26, 2013