April 2006

When the Indiana General Assembly approved Gov. Mitch Daniels’ “Major Moves” transportation plan last month, it added two provisions that might turn out to be stumbling blocks...

Ford Construction Co. Inc., Lodi, Calif., is a heavy civil contractor involved in freeways, dams, landfills, subdivisions and large underground and grading operations. With $75...

A major consideration in designing and construction of bridge decks is the permeability of the concrete. Over the years, one of the ways permeability has been addressed is the...

Last season, the new Terex/Cedarapids CR662RM RoadMix from Terex Roadbuilding set out to prove its production capabilities as a material transfer vehicle. The machine traveled...

Sand is a substance normally found at a beach not on a jobsite. These golden granules add a level of complexity to a road construction project that requires a particular density...

When the city of Miramar, Fla., decided to implement an information-based system to communicate to residents, they began investigating radio frequencies to broadcast their messages...

What happens when the highway washes away? You fix it. That is precisely what happened three years after Lummoxville Road in Haverhill, N.H., washed away. A number of decisions...

Highway construction zones require regular installation and removal of concrete barrier wall. The sooner barriers can be installed and traffic diverted, the sooner the work can...

As the only Potomac River crossing in the southern half of the Washington, D.C., area, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge (WWB) is essential to the region’s road and marine transportation...

The “most polluted urban stream in North Carolina” had been a distinction carried by Rocky Branch since 1978. In the late 1980s, the North Carolina Department of Environmental...

The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Roadside Environmental Unit has successfully developed an Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program to cater to...

The new railway bridge in Brussels was built for the Belgian railway system by Victor Buyck Steel Construction. The bridge was ready to be moved to its final site at the end of...

The city of Baltimore Department of Transportation needed to repair 2.5 miles of Wabash Avenue. The roadway of Wabash Avenue is 9 in. thick and 30 years old. It is a six-lane ...

Steve Stark, co-owner of Arrow Striping and Manufacturing Inc. in Billings, Mont., knew just what machine he would use when his company was recently hired to help with a major...

A residential street that intersects the famed Melrose Avenue in the heart of the Fairfax and Hollywood District of Los Angeles, Ogden Drive, is a typical street built in the ...

In L&B Construction Co. v. Ragan Enterprises, Inc., 482 S.E.2d 279 (1997), the Supreme Court of Georgia interpreted a fairly standard “flow-down” provision in a subcontract that...

Construction zones are high-risk areas for not only construction workers but also for drivers. In 2004, while Hempt Brothers Inc., Mountain Top, Pa., worked to rebuild state Rte...

Libertyville Township, a small community in Illinois, has experienced considerable growth in recent years. Even with rapid growth, the local government strives to provide a safe...

Full-depth reclamation (FDR) of failed asphalt pavements using cement provides many advantages over other methods of road rehabilitation, and Spokane County in northeastern Washington...

Replacing aging sections of sidewalk and curbing is a constant need in Norridge, Ill. Unlike some communities, Norridge has no grassy strips between sidewalks and curbs. To efficiently...

The relocation of an underground gas main under I-405 was required as part of a Washington State DOT (WSDOT) road-widening plan for 116th Street, a major east-west arterial in...

Hooked on classics Classical music has long been known to stimulate creativity, optimize brain development and even soothe crying babies. But now the city of Hartford, Conn., ...

One of the major challenges facing public-works departments across the northeast is an aging road and bridge infrastructure that is subject to harsh weather conditions with limited...

The Ohio River crossing at Portsmouth built in 1927 was named to honor Ulysses Simpson Grant, the 18th president of the U.S. and general from Georgetown, Ohio, who achieved national...

Did you ever try the butterscotch pudding at Ponderosa? I’m betting most did not even know of the steakhouse’s talents in the instant-dessert field. I always grabbed one moving...

Every three years, those involved in the construction industries head to Las Vegas to attend ConExpo-Con/Agg and witness first hand the changes and innovations in road-construction...

For more than 20 years, dense-graded, high-float emulsion asphalt surface treatments (ASTs) have been often selected by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities...

What a difference a growing economy makes. Omaha, Neb., once considered a quiet hamlet in flyover country, is now anything but a sleepy-eyed community.

The state of Ohio has the second largest number of bridges in the U.S. and the seventh largest highway system. Like many states, portions of the system are outdated, overburdened...

When it is wintertime, the snow falls, and there is not much new about that. What is new, from the transportation point of view, is the increasing expectations of our customers...