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Meeting the 'Construction Challenge'

Construction Challenge to culminate at the upcoming ConExpo-CON/AGG 2008 trade show.

A 'think tank' approach

National Symposium on HMA Energy and Recycling

Liquid performance

Improved performance key to preserving asphalt roads with polymer modified emulsions and other additives.

New plant doubles output

Owners of this 55-year-old asphalt producer/paving business realized how limited their growth potential was with an old batch plant and decided the time was now to invest in a new state-of-the-art facility.

The new plant, which supports the company's two paving crews as well as private sales, has doubled production at Counts Construction, Ocala, FL.

Waukesha's preservation is hot

Waukesha County Public Works' Highway Operations Division is using hot in-place recycling as a main preservation approach for many of its rural roads.

The hot in-place process takes care of those surface flaws and also re-profiles the road and removes any rutting or other low spots.

Widening project alleviates heavy commuter congestion

The Kansas Turnpike Authority recently completed a three-year, $55 million widening project between East Topeka and Lecompton, adding a third travel lane in each direction of this portion of I-70, which was originally constructed in the mid-1950s.

KTA used rolling road blocks instead of road closures to add a third travel lane in both directions of the 12.6-mile project between the East Topeka Toll Plaza 183 and the Lecompton Toll Plaza 197.

Rude awakening

I-35W bridge collapse.

Santa Barbara County opts for emulsions in its pavement preservation efforts

County's preservation project leverages funds to implement program over two fiscal years.

'We've used a broad range of technologies in an effort to maintain our roads as we deal with rising asphalt prices,' Scott McGolpin, interim director of Santa Barbara County's Public Works, says. Here is a road after application of a scrub seal.

Worker visibility key to safe environment

Editor's perspective

Leveraging plant technology

Eubank Asphalt adds another portable asphalt plant to support major paving projects and overall competitive strategy.

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GDOT continues cement stabilization program

Now in its second year, Georgia's Department of Transportation's (GDOT) Full Depth Asphalt Road Reclamation (FDR) with Portland cement program provides an economical alternative to improve airports and busy city and rural roads, like Jackson County's Wayne Poultry Road

Upgrade addresses increased usage

Increasing traffic levels on Lumpkin County gateway to mountain recreation homes calls for road improvements on a windy 10-mile stretch of State Road 9.

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