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  • November 2006

    • November 2006

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    Safety First

    March 21, 2007
    Chicks dig pink The Neal family figured they’d buy their son a car one day, but not until he had his license—or was at least big enough to see over the dashboard. That minor technicalit...
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    Over Done

    March 21, 2007
    Long ago, there was no requirement to have a differing site condition or significant change in the character of the work clause in the state standard specifications. As some contractors...
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    Feel the Love

    March 21, 2007
    Just when I thought I had found a rhythm with my manhood, out came a hot, um, warm bowl of pecan smoked bacon soup dressed in frill and fluff. For much of the day the male ego...
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    Perfect Fit

    March 21, 2007
    Credibility, integrity and leadership. All are qualities a strong leader should possess, and as the newly confirmed U.S. secretary of transportation, Mary Peters fits the bill...
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    A Clay Mold

    March 21, 2007
    As part of industry efforts to publicize the need for an interstate system for the 21st century, TRIP used the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the interstate to highlight ...

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    Rio Problems Answers

    Dec. 11, 2006
    When residents of the Rio Verde Community Association (RVCA) needed to repave their parking lot, they turned to a clean, bright concrete pavement to solve the problems of distressed...
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    3 To Get Ready

    Dec. 11, 2006
    The U.S. interstate system of highways celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. The majority of the interstate was originally built of concrete pavement. These pavements have...
    Concrete Repair Maintenance

    Protective Cover

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Affordability has a new name. It’s called whitetopping, and cities and counties around the state of Michigan are embracing it as an option to stretch their limited funds even...
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    Block of Fire

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Originally Denver’s very first city block, historic Larimer Square is now the epitome of high-energy urban revitalization, offering trendy, eclectic shopping, hip nightlife and...
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    Blending In

    Dec. 11, 2006
    For highway officials in Missouri and Wisconsin, three is turning out to be a magic number—specifically, cement composed of three key ingredients. In both states, ternary mixes...
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    Airport Authority

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Gill Civil Engineering in Kent, England, has carved out a unique niche for itself in the last three years. The country has several prime contractors and most are not equipped ...
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    Daring 2B Different: Top 10 Bridges

    Dec. 4, 2006
    It would be easy to just look over the Bay’s shoulder and copy what it had. Caltrans, however, wants every bridge to be a signature bridge. So when it came time to create designs...
    Concrete Roads

    Changes Made in White

    Dec. 1, 2006
    As goes the price of oil per barrel, so too goes the price of gasoline and a range of petroleum-based products, including asphalt oil used for pavement applications. Although...
    Bridge Design

    Roaring 50's

    Nov. 1, 2006
    Balancing the 20th century at midspan was the 1950s, a decade that was especially inventive as far as bridge building. There must have been something in the water. Or maybe it...
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    Building Our World

    Nov. 1, 2006
    One hundred years ago, a young carpenter named Ernest E. Poole began to construct farmhouses, schools and retail shops throughout Saskatchewan, creating what would one day become...
    Inspection

    Traveling By Buggy

    Nov. 1, 2006
    The Hale Boggs Bridge in Luling, La., built in the early 1980s, was one of the first in a wave of new cable-stayed bridges opened in the U.S. over the past 25 years. In 2002,...
    Bridge Rescue

    Shorter On Trussed

    Nov. 1, 2006
    The Murray Baker Bridge cantilevered truss is 180 ft shorter than it was only months ago as a result of the first known truss shortening of its kind.
    Inspection

    Bridge Body Scan

    Nov. 1, 2006
    Rapid advances in technology are dramatically changing the way bridge surveyors and engineers perform their tasks and conduct their business. The most recent technological innovation...
    Bridge Construction

    Shatter-Proof Glass

    Nov. 1, 2006
    Noses, fingers and hands. Toledo is free to smudge with all of them. Those involved in the Veterans’ Glass City Skyway Bridge have even provided a clear viewing area to lean ...
    Bridge Construction

    The High Heat

    Nov. 1, 2006
    The Potomac River, nicknamed the “Nation’s River,” has many times been at the center of struggle for the U.S. From the siege of Harper’s Ferry in 1859 to hosting several epic...