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Texas Contractor Learns New Tricks With Rosco Machine
Whoever coined the phrase, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” obviously never encountered the Dean Word Company. Since its inception in the early 1890s, the company, based in New Braunfels, TX, has been an innovator in the road and highway construction business. Founded by Walter Lewis Word, the original direction of the company was dirt contracting for both county road and railroad construction....
Long-Life Asphalt to Alleviate Colorado Traffic Delays
The use of new long-life asphalt materials and speedy paving techniques could help alleviate much of Colorado’s construction-related traffic delays. The Colorado asphalt paving industry is kicking off an “Orange Cone Initiative,” promoting construction strategies that can help reduce delays and minimize traffic problems caused by upcoming road work. “The goal in road construction should be to get in, get out and stay out,” said Ken Coulson, president of the Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association, and of Loveland-based Coulson Excavating....
U.S. Concrete Gets 41 Plants With Beall Deal
U.S. Concrete Inc., Houston, TX, will acquire Beall Industries, a leading producer of ready-mixed concrete and lime slurry located in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Beall Industries is expected to produce annualized revenue during 2000 of approximately $65 million....
Foamed Asphalt Sets Well With Wisconsin Reconstruction
Jefferson County, WI, plans to use more foamed asphalt in road base reconstruction following its own research, and following field demonstrations by a major Wisconsin road contractor. Jefferson County used foamed asphalt technology in an $800,000, 5-mile, Phase I reconstruction of County Highway N early in 1999....
Contractor Uses New Paving Technique to Keep on Truckin’
Jack’s Truck Stop in Cullman, AL, got a new concrete parking lot recently, but the usual forms, concrete finishers and carpenters were nowhere to be seen. The six-acre parking lot was made using roller compacted concrete, a process which utilizes asphalt paving machines and dump trucks instead of ready-mix trucks and finishing crews. This revolutionary new way to place concrete was selected as the optimum method for expanding the truck stop....
Asphalt Replaces Concrete at Maryland Intersection
A comparison of the performance of asphalt and concrete pavements at adjacent intersections on Route 40 in Maryland came to an end during the summer. After six years of service, cracked Portland Concrete Cement (PCC) pavement had to be removed and replaced with hot mix asphalt (HMA)....
Titan Paver Reigns Over NY’s Roads
The Titans ruled the universe for nearly 10 years during the days of Greek myth and legend. Today, another type of Titan is taking control of the East Coast. Ingersoll-Rand’s ABG Titan 525 tracked paver — the largest paver in the world, according to Scott Collins of Ingersoll-Rand — was recently purchased by Suit-Kote Corporation....
Miller Pavers Iron Out Rough Spots on I-20
The Energizer bunny has met his match on a 12-mile segment of Interstate Highway 20 in Arlington, TX. The project manager on the IH-20 barrier wall project reports the Miller slipform pavers just keep going and going....
American Paving & Asphalt Builds Foundation With Solid Equipment
“The first rule of going into business is to make sure that you don’t burn any bridges behind yourself. You might need them later to help haul across men, materials, and machinery,” said Robert G....
Asphalt Replacing Concrete Along Florida’s Highways
White Construction Company is handling the resurfacing of approximately 10 miles of Interstate 10 in Washington and Holmes Counties in northern Florida. The $6.6 million project begins just west of the Caryville interchange near Ponce de Leon to County Road 18 in Holmes County, at the Bonifay exit near Westville....
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