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    • January 2009

    Safety Apparel

    Constant awareness

    Jan. 8, 2009
    2009 marks the 10-year anniversary of National Work Zone Awareness Week. As anniversaries often do, this one calls for a reassessment: What progress has the roadway safety industry...
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    Welcome sign

    Jan. 8, 2009
    Barack Obama has been elected the 44th president of the U.S. There will be at least six new senators, 45 new members of the House and a slew of new faces at the U.S. Department...
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    Consumers shrug

    Jan. 8, 2009
    The shape of the industry should be familiar to anyone paying attention to the news in recent weeks and months. The economy in general walked off a cliff this year, led by the...
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    Signs of the time

    Jan. 8, 2009
    Lost in translation Tradition is important in Wales, so while most of the population speaks English, the country is officially bilingual, with both English and Welsh sharing equal...
    Road Construction

    Personal check

    Jan. 8, 2009
    The reconstruction of 2.5 miles of the Grand River Road between Whitmore Lake and Brighton with 9-in. of high-performance concrete pavement marked the first time in more years...

    More content from January 2009

    Road Construction

    Working a double lift

    Jan. 8, 2009
    Two-lift concrete paving just might be making a comeback in the U.S. Scarcity of aggregates, advances in materials knowledge and construction equipment and increasing demands ...
    Hammers

    Recycled bridge

    Jan. 8, 2009
    Imagine “recycling” an 8,076-ft-long bridge that carries 50,000 cars and two dozen trains a day over the Mississippi River. That’s essentially what is happening in New Orleans...
    Bridges

    Engine trouble

    Jan. 8, 2009
    The economic engine should be the only one being prodded and poked in the shop these days.
    Bridges

    Leaning on glass

    Jan. 8, 2009
    One of the primary failure mechanisms in reinforced concrete bridge decks is corrosion of the steel reinforcing bar. When steel corrodes it expands, causing the adjacent concrete...
    Bridge Construction

    Performance blend

    Jan. 8, 2009
    Optimizing concrete mixes with supplementary cementitious materials can make a significant contribution to meeting cost, performance and sustainability goals. Today, more than...
    Snow and Ice Removal

    Start milking it

    Jan. 8, 2009
    I am wondering if my garage can hold a cow. It was equipped to house horses back in the early 1900s, and you can still see the door where they dropped the hay. Maybe a crowbar...
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    Lease on life

    Jan. 8, 2009
    Since their introduction in the late 1980s, public-private partnerships (PPP) have gained in popularity and are becoming a preferred contracting method. Is the PPP approach viable...
    Bridges

    Promising walk-on

    Jan. 8, 2009
    The emotional send-off was all one needed to see to fully understand the deep connection between a town and its 80-year-old bridge. On Sept. 20, Norridgewock, Maine—a town of ...
    Lighting Poles

    The falling sky

    Jan. 8, 2009
    The tragic collapse of the I-35 West Bridge in Minneapolis in 2007 has heightened the concern for the safety and condition of our nation’s aging infrastructure.