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Roadbuilding

WinterPave asphalt additive a built-in “anti-icer” for roads

Cargill Deicing Technology displayed the WinterPave asphalt anti-freeze product, which lowers the freezing temperature of water on a road surface, at the 2016 North American Snow Conference in Hartford, Connecticut. The company is the exclusive U.S. distributor for the product. Rather than a topical product broadcast on pavements, such as salt, WinterPave is added to […]

May 25, 2016

Roadbuilding

Poor bridge ranking sparks Iowa group’s calls for more DOT funding

The advocacy group Progress Iowa says Iowans are driving on some of the worst bridges in the country, kcrg.com reports. The group is calling on state lawmakers to provide more funding to the Iowa Department of Transportation for bridge inspections, after the legislature cut nearly $5 million from this year’s DOT budget. “Iowa is now number one […]

May 25, 2016

Roadbuilding

MoDOT slides I-70 bridge into place over Garth Ave.

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) says the new Interstate 70 bridge at Garth Avenue is only the second bridge in Missouri to be slid into place from its nearby location, but more bridges at Range Line Street and Business Loop will be shifted into place this summer. Due to rain, the bridge slide was postponed from […]

May 24, 2016

Roadbuilding

Virginia transportation board awards $46.8 million in infrastructure improvement projects

The Virginia Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) recently awarded four major infrastructure projects valued at $46.8 million. The projects are spread across the Fredericksburg, Hampton Roads, Lynchburg, Salem and Bristol districts of the Virginia Department of Transportation. Projects include: Interstate-95 Express Lanes extension in Stafford County/Fredricksburg District – $31.1 million design-build contract to Branch Highways of […]

May 24, 2016

Roadbuilding

Florida road construction worker killed by sweeper truck

On Friday, May 13, a 69-year-old road construction worker was killed when he was run over by a sweeper truck on a job site on Florida 207 in Hastings, The Florida Times-Union reports. The Florida Highway Patrol identified the victim as Everett Leslie Rolfe of Holly Hill. According to the report, the sweeper truck was cleaning the left lane after it […]

May 24, 2016

Roadbuilding

APWA recognizes 3 agencies for snow, ice control at Snow Conference

The American Public Works Association recognized three public works agencies with its Excellence in Snow and Ice Control award during the 2016 North American Snow Conference in Hartford, Connecticut. The Longmont, Colorado, Department of Public Works and Natural Resources was cited for its annual Snow and Ice Control plan, which “outlines strategies to maintain a […]

May 24, 2016

Roadbuilding

Got a critical infrastructure project? New Case CE grant to award $25,000 in equipment

As part of the company’s infrastructure funding awareness efforts, Case Construction Equipment has launched a grant that will provide a community with free heavy equipment. Case is encouraging representatives of municipal, county and other local governments to apply for the Dire States Equipment Grant. The winning community will receive $25,000 in free equipment to offset the […]

May 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

Rutgers: New Jersey DOT total road cost is $183,757 per mile

A new study by Rutgers University’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center finds that the average costs of planning, construction, operation and maintenance of roadways maintained by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) is $183,757 per mile. The university conducted the study as part of a program aimed at the “aggregate costs” that are connected […]

May 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

Oklahoma DOT worker killed during brush removal project

Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) Superintendent I Jarrell Gray, 47, was killed while supervising a brush removal project May 18. Gray is the 60th ODOT worker to be killed in a work zone in the history of the agency. The 18-year ODOT veteran was hit by a car on SH 20 near Jay in Delaware County, […]

May 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

Missouri, Illinois DOTs seek public input on new location for Champ Clark Bridge

The Illinois and Missouri Departments of Transportation are seeking public comments on the environmental assessment for a location for the new Champ Clark Bridge to span the Mississippi River in Louisiana, Missouri. The current Clamp Clark Bridge, also know as the US 54 bridge, is a five-span truss design built in 1928 and is 2,238 […]

May 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

UTA engineer assessing use of lasers to measure microtexture of aggregates in asphalt and concrete mixtures

Roger Walker, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), is working with the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) at Texas A&M to assess whether scanning lasers can accurately measure the microtexture of aggregates used in asphalt and concrete mixtures, according to a news release from UTA. The two-year, […]

May 20, 2016

Roadbuilding

Minnesota governor, house republicans spar over transportation funding solutions

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and state House Republicans have both proposed transportation funding measures this week, but have failed to reach an agreement on either. Dayton has brought to the table two separate proposals, with one raising the gas tax by 5 cents per gallon and increasing vehicle license tab (the sticker on the license) […]

May 20, 2016