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Asphalt Paving

Ready with cold remedies

May 10, 2005
While there are paving contractors who own and operate cold planers, there are many who opt for subcontracting out that portion of their repaving contracts to a planer specialist...
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Thriving in Dense, Urban Areas

Sept. 19, 2002
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is a good example of the kind of work Slattery Skanska excels at. The contract, for the New York State DOT (NYSDOT), calls for rehabilitating 2 ...
Bridges

Blazing a trail

Nov. 28, 2001
To replace the deteriorating Sixth Street viaduct, Milwaukee wanted a bridge that would be a signature for the city as well as a stimulus for the development of the Menomonee ...
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Soft-Metricated Rebar Becomes Reality when Adopted as a Metric Standard

Dec. 28, 2000
The use of soft-metricated reinforcing steel as the metric standard for rebar in the U.S. has been officially adopted. Specifications for soft-metric rebar are now available from...
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LAW: The Contractor's Side

Dec. 28, 2000
In May of this year I attended a conference on innovative contracting practices. One of the hot topics we discussed was the "design build" approach to constructing transportation...