TME Summer 2012

At 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 20, Hall Contracting finished paving the deck of the Eggner’s Ferry Bridge.With beating the Memorial Day deadline in sight, Randy Downey, project ...

Pottawattamie County, Iowa, is located within the deep loess deposits in southwest Iowa along the Missouri River.The county has varying landscape, from the semiarid loess bluffs...

Rieth-Riley Construction Co. Inc., based in Goshen, Ind., is at work on I-70 on the east side of Indianapolis.The existing roadway had deteriorated and was in need of replacement...

At first glance, the reconstruction of I-15 near Provo, Utah, looks like a high-production, mainline paving job.It runs for 25 miles and is typically 10 lanes wide. By the time...

Walsh Construction—a Chicago-based general contracting, construction management and design-build firm consistently ranked among the top 15 construction firms in the country—recently...

Late last year—working nights under very tight time constraints—a Wirtgen W 2200-12 cold mill with 12-ft 6-in.-wide drum worked with smaller Wirtgen mills to remove asphalt from...

Speed is the ticket? John Deere focused on getting the job done faster with its 318D and 320D skid-steer loaders. Both models have a new two-speed option, increasing ground speed...

Major transportation infrastructure takes years of planning, design and construction work to complete, so it is important to have a dependable source of funding. Unfortunately...

I-10 not only serves cross-country traffic between California and Florida, it also is the only interstate connecting Arizona’s two major metropolitan areas—Tucson and Phoenix....

In the extremely competitive business of asphalt paving, where bids of several hundred thousand dollars can be won or lost by less than a thousand dollars, something as common...

Slab rehab on its own is an intense operation for equipment and users, but performing with a tropical storm, working at night and with limited hours complicates matters.Workers...

At this point, most in the market do not mind having a drop in sandbags serve as rocket thrusters.The growth in the construction industry over the past few quarters has felt more...

JBI Construction faced a barrier challenge on I-65 in Louisville, Ky.They were a subcontractor to Hall Contracting of Kentucky Inc. on the project, which required the removal ...