Sometimes I read about cases where one of the parties, its lawyers or both appears to be like the Keystone Cops. I can only picture how painful it must be to sit through such ...
With assistance from organizations like Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, IRI Consultants to Management and the LearnShare consortium, Holcim Inc. has developed a comprehensive training...
Tread lightly Scientists at a university in Germany believe that they have finally figured out why your wife may have trouble reading a map. In a report published earlier this...
Since 1999, the goal of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Concrete Pavement Technology Program (CPTP) has been to achieve new and improved methods of using concrete ...
A locked box does little to protect money left out on the table. The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) now has an armed-guard approach to a problem that only hardened...
In the early 1980s, after years of studying D-cracking in concrete pavements, the Iowa DOT figured out how to minimize the problem. Materials engineers at the Iowa DOT developed...
In 2003, the Minnesota Department of Transportation awarded three of four major construction contracts for the $250 million upgrade of I-494, Highway 61 and the interchange connecting...
For highway construction workers, 2004 was a year of recovery from the past few years despite rising costs of materials. The conditions that caused the price jumps—the weakening...
Since the first load of Superpave hit the road in what seems like an eternity ago, contractors have been experimenting with various methods of laydown and compaction that will...
A $33 million new road construction project may be considered by the contractor as a medium-size or big project. It all depends on his viewpoint. Big, medium or small, however...
Instead of pulling Illinois out of the mud, Leet Denton and hundreds of others placed a fine coat over a growing mess in 1980. Opened in 1951, the Edens Expressway (I-94) was...
Roadside vegetation provides a valuable protective barrier to prevent pavement erosion, but it must be managed to keep weeds from creeping onto shoulders, roots from cracking ...
In order to develop a specification for concrete maturity, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) was looking for a contractor and a suitable project in order to test...
For one afternoon, I thought I belonged in the backseat of the Bandit’s sweet black Trans-Am. I was 10 years old and just “snuck” into my first PG movie by myself. The man tearing...