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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 [âŚ]
February 2, 2017
Roadbuilding
3D Asphalt Paving: The highest smoothness and accuracy possible, no strings attached
Stringless paving isnât just for concrete contractors. The asphalt guys are in on it as well, but with a few slight twists on the methods used. As with concrete paving, stringless asphalt paving offers the benefit of eliminating the costly step of bringing in a survey crew to set up the stringline. Eliminating that step [âŚ]
September 20, 2016
Roadbuilding
NAPA names 10 Larry H. Lemon Quality In Construction Award winners
Ten winners received the 2015 Larry H. Lemon Quality in Construction Award at the recent National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) annual meeting. The award recognizes âexcellenceâ in asphalt pavement construction projects that use more than 50,000 tons of asphalt. The winners and their projects include: Barrett Paving Materials of Franklin, Ohio, for its work on [âŚ]
February 16, 2016
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Why asphalt is still the King of Paving
Approximately 93 percent of the more than 2.6 million miles of paved roads and highways in the United States are surfaced with asphalt. Asphalt surfaces range from full-depth pavements to thin asphalt overlays, but all are quick and easy to build and maintain. These factors, coupled with refinements in asphalt technologies, have helped asphalt maintain [âŚ]
March 11, 2015
Business
Bomag breaks ground on new North American HQ in South Carolina
Wednesday morning, Bomag Americas held a ground breaking ceremony for the future site of its new North American headquarters in Ridgeway, South Carolina. Company officials as well as South Carolina State and local officials were on hand for the event. The $18.2 million investment will create 121 new jobs for the state, South Carolina Gov. [âŚ]
February 5, 2014
Roadbuilding
Asphalt calculator apps help get the paving job done
With road building season still going strong, three apps could make paving jobs easier for highway crews and other paving professionals. These three asphalt calculator apps for smartphones simplify the paving process by calculating how much asphalt is needed to pave a given area. One app, called âAsphalt Calculator,â calculates the amount of cubic yards [âŚ]
August 5, 2013
Roadbuilding
Bomag names Bill Rieken as road building specialist
Bomag Americas has named Bill Rieken as the road building specialist for the Midwest territory. Rieken has more than 35 years of asphalt paving industry experience. In his new position, he will provide Bomag field sales with training, product demonstrations and machine set-up services for Bomagâs asphalt paving and rehabilitation equipment. Rieken has experience assisting [âŚ]
May 14, 2013
Roadbuilding
Road Science
Forensic studies give clue to pavement failure.
October 9, 2012
Business
Contractor of the Year Finalist
Sonny Tresco Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  Tresco Paving Year started: 1973 Number of employees: 35 Annual volume: $14 to $15 million Markets served: Asphalt paving, asphalt and concrete materials production  By Tom Jackson  It was a teacherâs strike at the local college that forced Sonny Tresco to forgo pursuing a professional law enforcement degree and [âŚ]
January 27, 2012
Success Stories
Bryan Force, 2011 Contractor of the Year, rides Pennsylvaniaâs oil boom
Bryan Force had it all set up. His dad David saw to it that he would have a good job at the local power plant as soon as he graduated from high school. And having worked there for decades, his dad knew all the ropes. Bryan had taken all the tests, met all the requirements [âŚ]
May 4, 2011
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Nevada DOT awards Granite $72 millon contract
The Nevada Department of Transportation has awarded Granite Construction a $72 million design-build interstate reconstruction contract. Granite will book the project into backlog during the second quarter of 2011.
April 7, 2011
Roadbuilding
Highway Contractor
âBack to gravelâ doesnât have to be the only choice for a failing road ⌠even if funds are scarce.
April 1, 2011
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