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Training + Advanced Controls = Smoothness Bonus

A trained, motivated crew - combined with advanced paver controls - proved instrumental in earning a $230,000 performance bonus on full-depth asphalt paving project.

Shelly & Sands used a material transfer vehicle as its option to control mix segregation and isolate the paver from the haul trucks, leading to a smoother pavement.

Paving in full 23-foot pull enabled Shelly & Sands to place pavement in one width without a longitudinal joint, improving the long-term durability of pavement under the 7-year warranty.

Training is so important to Shelly & Sands that it opened a corporate Safety & Training Center in Zanesville earlier this year.

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Roadbuilder Shelly & Sands Inc., Zanesville, OH, received 97% of the available bonus for smoothness attained in constructing dual-lane Ohio S.R. 161 on new alignment in Franklin and Licking counties, just east of Columbus.

The asphalt paving was so exemplary that the contractor received Flexible Pavements of Ohio's Quality Award for Asphalt Paving for 2008.

Shelly & Sands received the award from the state asphalt contractor association for "achieving the highest quality in asphalt paving as exhibited by superior workmanship and riding quality".

While Shelly & Sands did all drainage, paving, bridge and wall construction, earthwork was subbed to Beaver Excavating Company of Canton, OH, and lime stabilization was done by Specialties Company LLC of Indianapolis.

Compaction was a minimum 93% on every course, which provided the 100% pay factor for intermediate and surface courses. The firm averaged 94% to 95%.

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