Wed February 16, 2000
SuperPac Designs Rugged Roller
SuperPac has announced the release of the 6620, a new 168-centimeter (66 in.) machine.
This is the company’s latest addition to its complete line of soil compaction machines and is available in either smooth or padfoot configurations....
Wed February 16, 2000
Gomaco Paving System Soars With Airport, Highway Reconstruction
Gomaco’s GHP-2800 with the Integrated Paving System design, provides increased superior rideability results. The Gomaco GHP-2800 is designed to meet the international demands for new construction and reconstruction of highways, airport pavements and streets....
Wed February 16, 2000
Bomag BW90AD-2 Rollers Deliver Good Vibrations
The new Bomag BW90AD-2 tandem-drum, ride-on vibratory roller offers greater centrifugal force and higher vibrations per minute (vpm) than previous models.
With an operating weight of 1,520 kgs. (3,351 lbs.), the roller exerts 1,530 kgs....
Wed February 16, 2000
Renting Roller Makes ’Cents’ for Contractor
A Pennsylvania contractor who specializes in difficult site preparation projects has found that renting vibratory rollers is a cost-effective alternative to owning them.
Doug Thomas, president of Thomas Construction Company, Grove City, PA, said that his company has found a growing niche in the site-preparation market working on sites with difficult geotechnical conditions or requiring clean-up of hazardous materials....
Wed February 16, 2000
Warner Bros. Takes Low Profile With Blaw-Knox Paver
Since its inception in 1928, Warner Bros. Inc. of Sunderland, MA, has been known for its quality work and low profile. That was the way the company’s founder, T. L. Warner, wanted it.
Now in its third generation of family management, Robert H....
Wed February 16, 2000
Gehl Package Combines Skid Steer, Power Box Paver
Gehl Company offers a paving package that includes a Gehl skid loader equipped with a cold planer attachment and a Gehl Power Box paver.
Gehl cold planers mount on Gehl skid loaders to provide a cost-effective way of removing the top surface of roadways, driveways and cutting butt joints prior to resurfacing....
Wed February 16, 2000
Sakai’s 4000 VPM Rollers Speed Superpave Compaction
All other things being equal in the asphalt compaction process, an increase in the ground speed of a vibratory roller can translate directly into an increase in profit or a decrease in expense. This can only be true with a corresponding increase in vibration frequency, or VPM, however.
Unlike static compactors, vibratory compactors offer a combination of both static and dynamic forces to achieve the specified density in the shortest possible time frame....
K.K. Snyder - Wed May 31, 2000
Dodd Asphalt, DOT Give $69M Face Lift to I-475
Construction continues along a major section of I-475 through Central Georgia’s Monroe and Bibb counties to widen the route from two lanes in each direction to three lanes, said Todd Handley, a project engineer with the Georgia Department of Transportation.
The $69-million project began mid-1999 and has an estimated completion date of October 2001....
George Graham - Wed March 22, 2000
Polk Parkway Paving Slips on Mining Slime
Road building contractors are all too familiar with the problems encountered in Florida — shallow, sandy soil, igneous limestone, environmental restrictions and water, water everywhere. But problems facing the state Department of Transportation in constructing the recently completed Polk Parkway were different.
Before they could begin construction of the 40.2-kilometer (25 mi.) toll road circling the city of Lakeland, engineers had to figure out how to overcome soil conditions resulting from decades of phosphate mining.
“It was a very special challenge,” said Turnpike District Construction Engineer Charles Wegman....
Giles Lambertson - Wed March 22, 2000
Barnhill Gets Rough on Roads, Improves Safety
The highway project well under way along Interstate 40 in eastern North Carolina was not undertaken to move traffic faster or to lessen highway congestion. The goal was simpler than that — and more important....
