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Material Handling During A Flood By Ivy Chang, 4/20/2009
When spring arrives, people usually are upbeat and look forward to better weather. But, that's not the case in the Red River Valley as melting snow and rain gushed downstream and overflowed the Red River of the North until the plains of the Upper Midwest were covered with water that saturated the clay soil and then couldn't go anywhere. More
Material Handling Key To I-95 Widening Success By Steve Hudson - 04/20/2009
Interstate 95 between Savannah, GA, and the Florida line is one of the most heavily used sections of Interstate highway in the southeast — and five separate widening projects are currently adding new lanes to make traffic there flow more smoothly. The projects stretch along 33 miles of this coastal Georgia Interstate, and Brunswick, GA-based Seaboard Construction is handling grading, base...
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Material Handling On Today's Job Sites By Steve Hudson - 04/15/2009
On today's construction sites, time is most assuredly money — and time spent handling construction materials ...
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Batch Plant Certification By Aram Kalousdian, Editor - 04/13/2009
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will require concrete batch plant certification on some road construction projects this year. That was a message delivered at the 39th Michigan Concrete Paving Association (MCPA) Workshop in February at The Inn at St. John's in Plymouth Township, MI. “It will be required on all projects in the next few years,” Daniel M.
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FINN Material Transfer System 04/01/2009
The new MTS (Material Transfer System) from FINN Corporation can carry and discharge a variety of materials including aggregate, soil mixes, mulch, sand, and palletized loads. The MTS has a reversible main floor conveyor and cross belt that gives users the option to unload material from either side of the machine.
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Grasan Tracked Belt Feeder Staff - 02/15/2009
The new Grasan tracked belt feeder is designed for short travel from face to conveyor belt lines in quarries and sand/gravel operations. It has a 30-yard hopper capacity and can feed up to 1,500 tons per hour. This new model was designed for large sand/gravel producers to eliminate the need for haul trucks.
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Roadtec Cold Recycler Staff - 02/15/2009
Roadtec's new RT-500 cold recycler is for use in cold-in-place recycling projects that use the recycling train concept (tanker trucks, cold planers, crushing and screening units, mixers, pavers, and rollers). The RT-500 is designed to crush and screen the RAP produced by the RX-900 cold planer and can handle up to 600 tons per hour of material.
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Restoring The Bricks in Roswell An apartment building dating from almost 170 years ago is restored and expanded to create new residential space in an historic Atlanta suburb.
Restoring The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum The restoration of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City involved rebuilding the museum's Pier 86 into a state-of-the-art docking facility.
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