March 2005

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Case Based on Missed Quotes

April 2, 2007
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 ...
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Learn as You Go

April 2, 2007
With assistance from organizations like Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, IRI Consultants to Management and the LearnShare consortium, Holcim Inc. has developed a comprehensive training...
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A Real-Life Horror Movie

April 2, 2007
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...
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New Pavement Technologies

April 2, 2007
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 ...
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Spanning the News: Mo. Accepts Apologetic DOT

April 2, 2007
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...

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Concrete High Performance

Void all checks

March 14, 2005
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...
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Spans Across the Mississippi

March 14, 2005
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...
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Indications point up

March 14, 2005
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...
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Tire pressure

March 14, 2005
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...
Road Construction

Study Haul

March 14, 2005
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...
Interstate System

Bright White

March 14, 2005
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...
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Vegetation Management

The weed eaters

March 14, 2005
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 ...
Paving

Wireless provider

March 14, 2005
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...
Infrastructure Security

The tollway bandits

March 14, 2005
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...