I knew there was another side to Ms. Perrone, and it came blaring out from the obnoxious side of a megaphone. It was during the great teachers’ strike of my time, one that lasted...
Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Pavement Marking Removal Stripe Hog SH8000 The city of El Paso, Texas, had a very costly problem. Because of the extreme summer ...
British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is tackling a traffic nightmare. Congestion is part of any urban area, but the Vancouver area’s complex river ...
Research studies have shown that smooth asphalt pavements are a “win-win.” Not only does the public want smooth pavements to drive on, they last longer. That’s why state transportation...
Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Concrete Pavers GOMACO Commander III A new 2-mile-long, four-lane road is being built in the city of Honolulu on Hawaii’s Oahu island...
The dispute process in public contracts begins with the submission of a formal written claim. An issue that sometimes arises in public contract litigation is whether the matters...
Contractor's Choice Awards Silver Medal Winner - Asphalt Milling Machines Wirtgen W 2200/12 A big cold mill with a full-lane cutter drum was helping a contractor meet tight deadlines...
Boulders, some as big as tractor-trailers, pummeled I-70 in Glenwood Canyon in early March, leaving the only east-west Rocky Mountain artery closed for four days. One week after...
Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Concrete Curb and Gutter GOMACO Commander III Niko Projects Inc. has been a family owned company since 1980, specializing in slipformed...
Contractor's Choice Awards Silver Medal Winner - Mini Excavators Bobcat 335 Building retaining walls is tough work. There are long trenches to dig and heavy block to be lifted...
Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Skid-Steer Loaders Bobcat S330 While they’re not the stars of the show, skid-steer loaders definitely earn kudos in a supporting...
Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Asphalt Pavers Caterpillar AP-1055D Time and traffic had taken a toll on the Holland Tunnel, the four-lane I-78 thoroughfare connecting...
On an otherwise typical summer evening in Detroit, a chain of fateful events took place which would ultimately cause a bridge to come crashing to the freeway below.
Storing a heavy order of traffic paint under a mattress sounds downright silly, if not impossible. Sleeping next to it certainly is not out of the question, and it probably was...
The most common request from customers is for more power, a Bobcat representative told the assembled press at a June event in Atlanta. The company’s response was to beef up its...
Reconstruction of the aged Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) is still years away, but residents are not waiting to protest. The expressway was built in 1954 with an expected life...
Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Bridge Pavers/Finishers Bid-Well 4800 A 172-ft bridge over railroad tracks in a sleepy Southern town typically doesn’t pose much...
Pavement management can be defined as the process of overseeing the maintenance and repair of a network of roadways at or above established values, within budget constraints, ...
Ribbiting story As if they didn’t have enough problems in Greece, a busy northern highway was shut down for two hours in May when a horde of tiny frogs took over the road. A traffic...
I knew there was another side to Ms. Perrone, and it came blaring out from the obnoxious side of a megaphone. It was during the great teachers’ strike of my time, one that lasted...