December 2018

Asphalt Contractor December 2018

High load-bearing capacity for the approach road to Interstate 69: the Wirtgen WR 250 delivered a top performance stabilizing soil in Indiana.

Wirtgen Machines Give Soil Stabilization Edge Over Soil Exchange

Warm mix Stone Matrix Asphalt is put to the test by the Maryland Department of Transportation on a major interstate connection.

International Conference on SMA Promotes the Sustainability Benefits of This Durable Pavement

While the hot rubber chip seal (HRCS) construction is similar to a traditional chip seal, it requires a special asphalt binder distributor. Because the reacted rubber modified binder has a high viscosity, a normal distributor that would be used for an asphalt emulsion application would have had difficulties to spray the rubber modified binder.

Reducing Waste, Improving Roads

While the hot rubber chip seal (HRCS) construction is similar to a traditional chip seal, it requires a special asphalt binder distributor. Because the reacted rubber modified binder has a high viscosity, a normal distributor that would be used for an asphalt emulsion application would have had difficulties to spray the rubber modified binder.

Reducing Waste, Improving Roads

Avoca Plant (3)

Louisville Paving Invests in Innovation to Improve Efficiency

Asphalt Contractor’s State of the Road Building Industry for 2019

Industry professionals weigh in on the challenges that keep contractors awake at night

December 3, 2018

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Does 2019 Keep you Up at Night?

The industry will face five main struggles in 2019, but the outlook remains positive

December 3, 2018

Improving Pizza Delivery by Improving Roads

How Domino’s “Paving for Pizza” campaign works

December 1, 2018

Visitors to www.PavingforPizza.com can select road conditions of mild, moderate, critical or catastrophic on the “Pothole Impact Meter” and a video shows the damage roads in that condition can cause to a pizza.

Construction Technology

Pothole Repairs Lvl Up

Tech start-up Lvl5 was designed for the future of autonomous vehicles but their HD maps, populated by paid drivers, are being put to use today for real-time road repairs

October 31, 2018

Image shows a map overlay showing how Payver localization technology works.

The Best Asphalt Photos of 2018

Asphalt Contractor fans on social media submitted over 10,000 photos of their projects throughout 2018, here are the 10 photos our fans voted were the best!

October 30, 2018

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Dump Bodies & Bed Inserts

Trucks Accurately Place Jobsite Materials

Reduce rehandling and cleanup time by using specialized vehicle solutions to accurately place materials on the jobsite.

October 12, 2018

In typical stone applications, a Stone Slinger system can accurately place material up to 100 ft. from the truck. The throwing distance will be less for light-density “fluffy” materials. A shorter conveyor is also available for close-in applications such as roadway and sidewalk reconstruction in older, heart of city work.

Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other

Construction's Productivity Challenge is Really about Technology Adoption

Equipment makers say machine technology in the hands of skilled operators can raise construction productivity to meet population growth’s infrastructure challenge

August 21, 2018

Grade control technology has helped ATI Corp. increase sales of the Level Best skid-steer box attachment to 250 units annually.

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