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Roadbuilding
Font designed for easier readability on roadway signs is reinstated, two years after FHWA prohibited it
A font designed for easy reading on state highway traffic signs has been reinstated following the passage of the federal omnibus bill, according to the American Traffic Safety Services Association. There’s been back and forth on whether this font should be used, and the federal government has changed its own course over the letter style […]
April 11, 2018
Roadbuilding
MIT students create stronger concrete using plastic bottles
Undergraduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) discovered a way to use plastic water and soda bottles with fly ash to make concrete stronger and more flexible. According to a school press release, the researchers say that exposing plastic flakes to small doses of gamma radiation, pulverizing the flakes into a fine powder, […]
November 6, 2017
Roadbuilding
Understanding concrete on the atomic level may lead to a stronger product
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) researchers have discovered the beginnings of a new approach to producing concrete, which could lead to new ways to make concrete stronger and more sustainable with local materials as additives that will offset concrete’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a release from the institute. Oral Buyukozturk, a professor of civil […]
October 6, 2017
Roadbuilding
Lori Tiefenthaler becomes first woman to chair ACPA
Lori Tiefenthaler has been named the first woman to chair the American Concrete Pavement Association’s (ACPA) board of directors in the group’s 54-year history. “I am extremely honored to accept this gavel and the responsibility of leading this great association in 2017,” says Tiefenthaler. “As I look back on the 53 chairmen that came before […]
December 19, 2016
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