Wed May 26, 2004
Briggs Names Sal D’Amato Southeast Paving Specialist
Sal D’Amato recently joined Briggs Equipment as the company’s paving products specialist for the Southeast. D’Amato brings with him more than 25 years of experience in the paving industry, including 10 years with Wirtgen....
Wed May 19, 2004
Sweeney Now Offers Poured Concrete for Building Foundations
Sweeney Excavation Inc., one of the Sweeney Companies, has launched a new division, providing poured concrete for building foundations. The company has made a significant commitment to this division, both in manpower and equipment, by hiring eight experienced concrete professionals and investing in the purchase of specialty equipment....
Wed April 21, 2004
Asphalt Care Equipment Holds Annual Trade Show in Philly
On April 2 and 3, Asphalt Care Equipment Inc. held its 2004 Trade Show at the Pennsylvania Army National Reserve in Northeast Philadelphia, near I-95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The show, now in its fourth year, drew hundreds of contractors to Philadelphia to check out products such as asphalt paving equipment, line striping/marking, seal coating, crackfilling, joint repair, sealing, sweeping, asphalt patch/pothole repair, site preparation and traffic control....
Wed April 21, 2004
Kerri Grenger Joins Foley Inc. as Its Assistant Controller
George Kattak, controller of Foley Inc., announced that Kerri Grenger has joined the company as assistant controller. Grenger comes to Foley Inc. with more than 10 years of accounting experience in the pharmaceutical and technology industries....
Wed April 21, 2004
Tracey Road Equipment Holds Paving Seminar in Syracuse
On March 25, 2004, Tracey Road Equipment held a paving seminar at its facility in Syracuse, NY. Larry Spring and John Herman, both of Ingersoll-Rand, shared with attendees their wealth of paving experience and answered topical questions....
Tue April 20, 2004
Asphalt Carries Weight of Burgeoning Roads in U.S.
What material carries most of the nation’s cars and trucks, is a multi-million-dollar equipment market, is America’s most recycled product, and can be “hot-mixed” in hundreds of combinations for smoother rides and longer-lasting highways?The answer, of course, is asphalt, which covers 94 percent of the nation’s highways, according to some estimates....
Fri April 16, 2004
I-64 to Get Richmond-to-Newport News Repaving
RICHMOND, VA (AP) Commuters and beachgoers are facing a three-year driving nightmare: Interstate 64 from Newport News to suburban Richmond is being repaved. With the existing I-64 widening project in Hampton and planned bridge repairs in the Richmond area, the newly announced work means that at least four major construction and maintenance projects will be under way this summer on sections of Virginia’s main east-west interstate....
Wed March 31, 2004
World of Asphalt Paves Way Through Nashville, TN, With 2004 Lineup of Equipment, Demonstrations
World of Asphalt’s 2004 show brought crowds from throughout the United States and beyond to the Nashville Convention Center in Nashville, TN, March 15 to 18. This year’s show and conference featured expanded exhibits of the latest asphalt products and services along with a number of industry-specific educational conferences, a warm mix asphalt paving demonstration and quarry tour, and a session on aggregates for asphalt....
Fri March 26, 2004
Growing Use of Concrete Becomes Too Big for This Planet
(Editor’s note: “CEG” will provide a similar in-depth article on asphalt in an upcoming issue.)It’s being considered as the main material for the first structures on the moon. Several million tons of it have gone into the construction of New York City’s Third Water Tunnel, the largest public works project in the city’s history....
Wed February 11, 2004
From Age 14, Fredericksburg Contractor Clears VA Ground
While his ninth grade classmates were cutting grass and washing cars, Tim Welsh, a Fredericksburg, VA, resident, was taking on his first contracting job.
“My great uncle sold property on the family farm to a developer who allowed me to remove the top soil,” recalled Welsh, now 28 and president of Rappahannock Construction Co., based in Fredericksburg....