Contributed (EQW)RoadbuildingContributed Story: Holland Surveyors founder launches road slope measurement tool with Fowler Wyler InclinometerFowler Wyler Clinotronic Plus enables land survey company’s Accu-Slope product to improve measurement accuracy and speed The Challenge About eight years ago, Holland Surveyors served as a road survey subcontractor to paving companies with the South Carolina State Department of Transportation’s (DOT) interstate rehabilitation projects. For these projects, Holland Surveyors measured the inclination of a […]May 24, 2013RoadbuildingContributed Story: Robust RoadsExpanded clay lightweight aggregate used in chip seal surface treatments provided cost savings and a high friction score for Louisiana Highway 3147.May 20, 2013RoadbuildingAPWA Snow Conference: From Impacts to EducationA multi-million-dollar road project produces the tools for a traveling teaching system in South Carolina. Educators believe that show-and-tell is a good way to educate children. Many elementary and middle school students are experiencing both show and tell in their study of African American history and South Carolina history through a Traveling Trunk Program. Charleston […]April 8, 2013RoadbuildingGuest Blog: The Gas Tax Dilemma – Financing Transportation and Fueling ProsperityEver feel like a victim of your own success? Let me explain. As you probably are aware, the lion’s share of revenue for infrastructure repair, ongoing maintenance, traffic operations and new construction comes from federal and state fuel taxes. That worked well in 1993 when the federal tax was 18.4 cents per gallon for gasoline […]March 17, 2013RoadbuildingGuest Blog from NAPA: It looks the same – but it isn’tAs the dust from the 2012 elections settles, the political landscape looks the same as it did before the election. President Barack Obama will serve another four years, the Democratic Party remains the majority in the U.S. Senate, and Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives. Strip away the superficial similarities, however, and things […]November 28, 2012RoadbuildingDowel bar retrofit for lasting road repairsDowel Bar Retrofit (DBR), used in conjunction with other Concrete Pavement Restoration (CPR) practices such as diamond grinding, can return a concrete roadway to a structurally sound, smooth condition that can exceed the smoothness and noise values attained at the time of construction. DBR restores load transfer across joints and cracks by installing dowel bars […]November 20, 2012RoadbuildingIn CourtMost construction contracts contain provisions relating to changes and extra work.November 12, 2012RoadbuildingGUEST BLOG: What the re-election of President Obama, Republican House majority, Democratic Senate majority means for the construction industryDuring the 2012 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney gave relative lip service to the subject of rebuilding America’s faltering infrastructure. Rather than positioning infrastructure as an integral part of the nation’s fabric, both treated construction funding as little more than a jobs generator. What’s more, many of the electorate (and fiscally […]November 12, 2012Previous PagePage 7 of 7Top StoriesWheel LoadersLiebherr Debuts World's First Large Wheel Loader with a Hydrogen EngineThe L 566 H's hydrogen reciprocating piston engine is the "optimal power source" for larger equipment, offering comparable performance to diesel, Liebherr says.DozersHyundai Breaks into the Dozer Market with HD100The DirtTest Run & Review: The Market's First Electric Mini Excavator, JCB’s 19C-1ECompact equipmentTakeuchi's TCR50-2 Crawler Dumper is Coming to North AmericaCompact Track Loaders“There’s Something for Everyone” – Compact Track Loaders Continue to Evolve
