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    • May 2012

    Equipment

    EQUIPMENT FOCUS: Getting bang for your bucks

    May 4, 2012
    As a machine that already combines multiple functions under one roof, efficiency is the ultimate goal when it comes to backhoe loaders. Whether you’re talking about fuel, performance...
    Bridges

    BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION: More direct

    May 4, 2012
    The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), in cooperation with Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise, the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) and the Federal Highway ...
    Safety

    TRAFFIC SAFETY: Innovation at ATSSA

    May 4, 2012
    Keeping drivers on the right path is the goal of the Wrong Way Driver Warning System from Traffic & Parking Control Co. Inc. (TAPCO), Brown Deer, Wis., which took first place...
    Bridges

    BRIDGE DESIGN: Right for American

    May 4, 2012
    The widening and upgrading of the Hazel Avenue Bridge in Sacramento, Calif., completed in October 2011, was a critical element of a broader improvement plan intended to alleviate...
    Bridges

    BRIDGE DESIGN: In short order

    May 4, 2012
    A new web-based tool that streamlines the design process for culverts and short-span steel bridges up to 140 ft is being introduced this June.The tool provides significant time...

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    Bridges

    BRIDGE MAINTENANCE: Patient J

    May 4, 2012
    Deterioration and necking of reinforcing bars has been reportedly observed at the interface of the footing and stem wall during the demolition of older bridge piers, abutments...
    Bridges

    STATE OF THE BRIDGES: Sounding confident

    May 4, 2012
    Most of Missouri’s lowest-rated bridges are now safe and sound, or will be by the end of the year. Beyond that, the state is locked into a house of uncertainty.Arguably the most...
    Bridges

    BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION: Answer above

    May 4, 2012
    If necessity is the mother of invention, then the flood risk that the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) faced in replacing the I-84 Sandy River bridges spurred a welcome...
    Bridges

    BRIDGE DESIGN: A public following

    May 4, 2012
    Portland, Ore., is a national leader in its commitment to using public-engagement processes to shape its communities and corresponding infrastructure.But even by Portland’s high...