Asphalt Contractor

COVID-19 Weakens Engineering and Construction Equipment Demand and Prices

Engineering and Construction costs fell in May, with survey respondents seeing lower prices continuing into the fourth quarter of 2020

Gray Steel Bar 46167

XAS 188 Air Compressor

Atlas Copco Power Technique

Atlas Copco's XAS 188 single-stage oil-injected rotary screw type air compressor delivers 189 cfm at 2.37 gallons per hour.

Atlas Copco Xas 188 Hero

ACI Announces Middle East Fellowship Recipient

American Concrete Institute (ACI)

ACI has named the recipient of the Middle East Fellowship for the 2020-2021 award year.

ACI Fellowship Recipient

Quality Control

Rasmussen Group Improves Trucking Safety with SmartDrive Systems

SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

SmartDrive Systems recently announced that The Rasmussen Group has deployed the SmartDrive video-based safety program with SmartDrive 360 and Extended Recording in two of its subsidiary companies.

SmartDrive Concrete Supply

How Prefabrication Delivers Safety and Production Vertical Construction Needs for Coronavirus Survival

Outsourcing close-quarter construction to prefab shops shifts infection risk off your job sites and slashes time from project timelines

Hurdles such as work sequencing, worker availability, weather and time constraints can be overcome by prefabricating off-site. It also moves worker hours, and liability, off-site.

Common Ground Alliance Releases Damage Prevention Technologies Report, Honors Leadership

Common Ground Alliance

Report provides case studies and insights on technology that industry stakeholders can use to prevent damages, protect assets and increase overall safety

Tech Report 1

ACI Foundation Announces the Roger S. Johnston Memorial Scholarship

American Concrete Institute (ACI)

The $5,000 scholarship will be administered by the ACI Foundation and awarded annually to undergraduate students enrolled in a bachelor's degree program in civil engineering or construction management.

ACI scholarship

Validating Innovative Pavement Performance

Cargill ANOVA Asphalt Solutions

Major effort underway to unify testing data and criteria validate innovative pavement performance across the 50 states.

There is a coordinated effort by Cargill, the National Center for Asphalt Technology at Auburn University and Minnesota’s MnROAD partnership to bring standardization and data equivalency across different pavement performance testing methods employed by individual states.

Quality Control

ToolWatch Leads Rollout of DEWALT Tool Connect Systems Integration

Tool manufacturing and tool management technology companies collaborate to improve field and warehouse productivity.

ToolWatch

ABC's Greg Sizemore Talks About the Need to Address Suicide in Construction

Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. (ABC)

Suicide risks in construction, particularly in light of the current coronavirus pandemic, must be addressed as part of a construction company's safety focus.

How It Works: Porous Asphalt Pavements

High voids in porous asphalt pavements cause water to filter through the pavement structure into an underlying drainage base then into the water table, protecting both the sub-grade and pocketbook of asset owners

Porous asphalt pavements are commonly used for parking lots and other light-duty applications. Full-depth porous asphalt pavements are increasingly being used on roadways as part of efforts to mitigate flooding hazards, reduce hardscape and improve sustainability.

Behind Dynapac's THE High Compaction Asphalt Screed

Dynapac North America LLC

Dynapac's SD Asphalt Paver Range features "THE" High Compaction Screed

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