Standard features have been improved and new features are available in several current models of skid-steer loaders. Operator comfort and ease of use is optimized with ...
The layoffs are enough to populate a small town, and in Missouri I’ll bet even fictional destinations are being closely monitored for road and bridge repair. That’s why...
A major South Carolina asphalt milling subcontractor is using fine-tooth milling or “micromilling” to give South Carolina taxpayers smoother roads. Micromilling with a full-lane...
The 3,200-ft-long Monongahela River Bridge, which is currently being constructed on the Mon-Fayette Expressway near Brownsville, Pa., consists of seven spans including a 518-ft...
The Terwiliger Curves on I-5, south of Portland, Ore., is a challenging section of freeway. The curving section is squeezed between a high rock cliff to the west and the Willamette...
This month, I want to share with you a unique bid protest case involving an apparent attempt by an ineligible bidder to procure a project through a related company. The...
There are plenty of challenges when you are paving at high altitudes, such as Highway 34 in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, the highest continuously paved road in the...
A major innovation in the hot-mix asphalt (HMA) industry was delivered to Tennessee Asphalt Co. of Knoxville, Tenn., in 1974: a highly portable drum-mixer production facility...
Old divides run deep Ford or Chevy? It’s one of the great debates of our modern society. Long after we’ve decided between the Beatles and the Stones or “tastes great...
The 36th Street Bridge in Redmond, Wash., was much easier to build than it was to plan. The $30 million structure spanning State Rte. 520 measured a mere 340 ft long, but its ...
In a slowly rebounding economy, it can be hard to hear of bid projects and even more difficult to win a job. But that is just what National Concrete Cutting, a concrete removal...
Over the past few years there have been some changes regarding roadside vegetation management with a shift focused on three things: (1) reducing maintenance costs, (2) implementing...
