September 1996

CONCRETE SOLUTIONS

Dec. 28, 2000

Projects to shed light on UTW The remarkable performance of the 1991 Ultra-Thin Whitetopping (UTW) experiment in Louisville generated much interest in this innovative concept ...

Asphalt

Safety First: Open-Graded Friction Courses

Dec. 28, 2000

In 1961, only 7% of all vehicle travel in the U.S. was on interstate highways; by 1989, that figure had more than tripled. Accompanying this rise in limited-access road usage ...

Trucks

TRUCK TRACKS

Dec. 28, 2000

Transmissions that shift themselves have emerged as major players in the big truck field this year. While the history of fully automatic and semi-automatic gear boxes can be told...

Home

LAW: The Contractor's Side

Dec. 28, 2000

In highway-construction bidding, rarely does a disappointed bidder overturn a decision by state or local government officials because to do so generally requires a finding that...

Asphalt

OGFC: Learning from the Past

Dec. 28, 2000

Open-graded friction course (OGFC) mixes have been around longer than many contractors or department of transportation officials may recall. As early as the 1930, Oregon was using...

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Asphalt

Compacting Hot-Mix Asphalt Pavements: Part II

Dec. 28, 2000

Editor's note: This is the second installment of a two-part series on asphalt compaction. In the August issue, Scherocman, a consulting engineer in pavement design and construction...

Storm Water

Advantages add up for HDPE pipe

Dec. 28, 2000

Earlier this year, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) started work on two large roadway projects in metropolitan King County, southeast of downtown Seattle...

Asphalt

Open-graded Friction Courses: A View from the Wet Coast

Dec. 28, 2000

Oregon comprises a wide variety of climatic regions, but one of the constants in its heavily populated areas-the western third of the state-is rain. Parts of the state receive...