Paving on the new Dan Ryan expressway was moving at a good pace on the May day when Roads & Bridges visited the site. Near 59th Street, haul trucks were lined up to deliver fresh...
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is increasingly becoming the tool of choice for pinpointing specified locations on many construction projects, with causeways and bridge projects...
Changes to the fall-protection equipment standard for general industry (ANSI Z359.1-1992 R1999) are under way. This benchmark standard, which has been incorporated into many industrial...
No one will ever know exactly how many lives a guardrail will save during its lifetime. Or how many lives a wider stripe or a brighter sign will save. That is because millions...
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel project, nicknamed the “Big Dig.” Records of project planning activity date all the way back to 1982, and...
South Carolina is just completing a significant roadwork program where bonds have been leveraged so that 27 years of maintenance and construction activities could be completed...
In his 1955 State of the Union address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower advocated the importance of a national highway system to better our growing country. Ike proclaimed to Congress...
Glasgow’s fish must think they are having an acid flashback. Looking up from their watery habitat in the River Clyde at the Kingston Bridge, they are presented with a kaleidoscopic...
Pavement markings serve an important role in delineating the travel way and providing regulatory, warning and guidance information to drivers. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control...
How does the most heavily traveled interstate in Indiana get a face-lift and serve the needs of thousands of motorists at the same time? It takes years of planning, commitments...
It’s hard to argue against safety. No one, especially a highway or bridge contractor, wants to be considered responsible for someone’s injury or death, whether it is a crew member...
Robert Haus wasn’t dreaming when he heard the phone ring at 5:45 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Tom Hanks’ voice wasn’t on the other end, either. Still, during the fallout of the tanker...
Transportation agencies can make more informed, cost-effective decisions about highway projects with the help of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) new online benefit...
Freedom of plate Bumper stickers and hybrids go together like, well, flags and pick-up trucks. But when Heather Moriah of Rapid City, S.D., bought a Prius last summer, she tried...
Today’s younger generation is far less likely to suffer from a bad case of sweaty hand. Back in the late-1980s day, when I had music pressed to my ear on a daily basis, my bulky...
In nearly all public contracts and in the majority of private contracts, the owner assumes the risk of unforeseen subsurface site conditions, because owners figure that even the...