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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
Effects Of Asphalt Fumes Studied By Aram Kalousdian, Editor - 04/20/2009
"The International Agency For Research On Cancer has said that they are going to write a monograph with respect to the effects of asphalt fumes on workers. They expect that that will come in 2010," David E. Newcomb, P.E., Ph.D., vice president of Research & Technology at the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), told attendees of the Asphalt Pavement Association of Michigan's 53rd A...
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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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Asphalt Workshop Held Staff - 04/13/2009
The Minnesota Asphalt Pavement Association held its 53rd annual workshop on March 4 to discuss hot-mix asphalt, warm-mix asphalt, transportation funding, recycling, pavement engineering, and government specifications for bituminous roads. Exhibitors included equipment dealers, material suppliers and manufacturers, engineering companies, and truck dealers at Earle Brown Heritage Center in suburb...
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General Equipment Asphalt Cutting Attachment 03/25/2009
General Equipment's 190M CUT-R-TACH® rotary asphalt cutting attachment is specifically designed as a heavy-duty, high production solution to a wide range of asphalt cutting projects.
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Asphalt Institute Celebrating Anniversary By Tom Hale - 03/23/2009
The Asphalt Institute (AI), based in Lexington, KY, is celebrating its 90th anniversary as the international trade association of petroleum producers, manufacturers and affiliated businesses. Founded in 1919, the Asphalt Institute is the oldest asphalt association in the world. "The history of the Asphalt Institute closely parallels the history of the asphalt industry," says Pete Grass, AI pres...
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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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