MAPA, CEG - Tue September 29, 2020
MAPA, MAAPT Issue 'Save the Date' for 2021 Conference
The Minnesota Asphalt Pavement Association (MAPA) announced new dates for its MAPA Asphalt Conference. Due to the pandemic, the conference will be held Feb. 3 to 4, 2021. According to a MAPA newsletter, the organization hopes "that after the New Year, we will be able to reconvene and offer similar elements to the conference that we have in the past....
Curb Rollers Manufacturing - Wed September 23, 2020
Curb Roller Manufacturing Makes Concrete Work Easy With Hydra-Screed HS3000
Curb Roller Manufacturing, a provider of shaped concrete roller screeds, makes concrete flatwork and shapework easier with the Hydra-Screed 3000. The hydraulically powered machine reduces back-breaking labor and accommodates varying lengths of pipe, custom V-flume, crowned roller screed and numerous other profiles, according to the manufacturer....
Kirby-Smith Machinery - Wed September 23, 2020
Kirby-Smith Grows Road Construction & Minerals Division
Kirby-Smith Machinery Inc. (KSM) has hired Robert Perkins as a paving and compaction specialist for its road construction and minerals division. Perkins brings nearly two decades of experience related to both the heavy highway construction and heavy equipment industries to the position....
Katherine Devlin – CEG Editorial Assistant - Wed September 02, 2020
Geneva Takes Delivery of New Roadtec Milling Machine
Geneva Construction Company, a heavy highway contractor in Aurora, Ill., specializes in asphalt paving and concrete. In business since 1926, many of its projects are for the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Illinois Tollway and a variety of municipal jobs....
Caltrans - Tue August 25, 2020
First-of-Its-Kind Paving Project in Oroville Uses All Recycled Materials
Lamon Construction Company Inc. of Yuba City recently partnered with Caltrans for a unique paving project in The Golden State. A section of Highway 162 in Oroville, Calif. was repaved using recycled asphalt pavement and liquid plastic made with single-use, plastic bottles — the first time the department has paved a road using 100 percent recycled materials....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu August 20, 2020
Speed Vital to Completion of Louisiana's French Branch Project
For years, the confluence of I-10, I-12 and I-59, the French Branch Bridge and West Pearl River Bridge has enabled drivers to get where they needed to go in the New Orleans metro area. Motorists and residents alike were wary about the announcement of extensive reconstruction coming on these essential roads....
HCEA - Tue August 18, 2020
Looking Back: Paving
Construction Equipment Guide takes a look back at some of the earliest paving equipment. ...
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu August 06, 2020
Lynches River Contracting Helps S.C. Racetrack to Re-Open
A raceway park is set to re-open in Kershaw, S.C., that promises to give people of all ages the opportunity to get behind the wheel to enjoy the speed and action that comes from driving on a road course....
World of Asphalt - Wed August 05, 2020
World of Asphalt to Honor 20 Asphalt Companies in Celebrating 20th Anniversary of the Show
World of Asphalt, an asphalt trade show and conference coming to Atlanta from March 9 to 11, 2021, is celebrating 20 years of bringing the asphalt industry together by honoring 20 asphalt companies with $500 toward attending the show....
Shelby County Reporter - Wed August 05, 2020
Lane Expansion on Alabama's I-65 Happening South of Birmingham
An Interstate 65 expansion project that involves planning, overlay and re-striping from the Shelby County Route 52 overpass to the south end of the Cahaba River Bridge in Alabama began in early July, with a completion target set for the late fall of 2020....
