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    • February 1998

    Concrete Roads

    A Look at Some of the Major Players on I-15

    Dec. 28, 2000
    Utah Department of Transportation UDOT is the agency responsible for the overall management of this project as part of the General Development Plan. Thomas R. Warne is the executive...
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    LAW: The Contractor's Side

    Dec. 28, 2000
    In my June 1997 column I wrote on the hazards of attempting to prove increased costs by the "total cost" approach (see Total Cost Method of Calculating Damages, p 12). I stated...
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    On the level: today's motorgraders

    Dec. 28, 2000
    A good foundation is necessary for launching many projects. This is especially important in roadbuilding. Without a proper base upon which to lay the concrete or asphalt a road...
    Bridges

    BRIDGES 1998

    Dec. 28, 2000
    Covered bridges usually seem like historical relics, or the subjects of romantic novels. However, an Ohio county is in the process of building several new covered bridges because...
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    New advances improve lasers' value

    Dec. 28, 2000
    Last spring I talked with many of the leading laser producers about lasers and what they can offer a highway or bridge building contractor (see Machine Control: It's More Than...

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    Concrete Roads

    I-15's Pioneering Spirit

    Dec. 28, 2000
    Last spring, the Utah DOT (UDOT) and contractor Wasatch Constructors embarked on an odyssey indicative of the spirit that first brought pioneers into the region 150 years ago....
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    Smart roads take hold in the Salt Lake Valley

    Dec. 28, 2000
    In preparation for my writing duties on Roads & Bridges' new quarterly supplement, Traffic Management & Safety, I visited the I-15 reconstruction project field office, near the...
    Asphalt

    A Material Engineer's Perspective: Field Compaction of Superpave Mixtures

    Dec. 28, 2000
    There has been much discussion recently about mixture tenderness with some Superpave mixtures during field compaction. These mixtures appeared tender during placement even though...
    Asphalt

    Field Management Key to Superpave Compaction

    Dec. 28, 2000
    The Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) ended in March, 1993. The activity of this highway program included $50 million devoted to the study of asphalt cement binder tests...