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Getting chilly out there!
Nov 09, 2010
Brrr… it was cold out there last week. A total of 10,000 tons of surface mixture was placed a 4 separate sites in upstate NY for the New York State DOT using Evotherm as a compaction aid. This warm mix initiative allowed for paving projects to continue past the regular hot mix seasonal deadline of […]
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Telfer Oil takes Evotherm to wine country
Nov 09, 2010
Telfer Oil Company supplied Evotherm to Syar Industries for use in a City of Napa paving project. The City of Napa recognized the value in warm mix asphalt after attending a project in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The City’s crew removed and replaced the existing pavement with a 1/2" dense grade mix formulated […]
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Last day for iPad drawing entry!
Nov 09, 2010
Today’s the last day to be entered into the drawing for an Apple iPad. Keep it yourself or regift it at Christmas. We won’t tell either way. All blog subscribers at 11:59 pm EST November 10th will be entered. The drawing will be at the Paving Greener with Asphalt conference and you do not need […]
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Density Gauges: Nuclear Face-Off
Nov 02, 2010
My previous job was at a third party QC lab working with contractors and state agencies. For this trip to Jericho Rd. in Kane County 46 miles west of Chicago, I was able to bring a TransTech PQI 380 to do comparison testing along side Curran's QC. State Testing had QC technicians on both jobs […]
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“Man, this stuff is great”
Nov 02, 2010
Last week I was in National City, California, for a demonstration with CA Commercial Asphalt and ATP. We hooked things up this morning at around 6:30AM and the first trucks went out around 7:45AM with ambient temps in the 50's. When I arrived at the jobsite, the city inspector, Gilbert Valdez, grabbed me and said […]
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Paving Greener with Asphalt
Nov 02, 2010
The Paving Greener with Asphalt Conference is coming up on November 17-18 in Denver, CO. Are you going? Co-sponsored by the National Asphalt Paving Association and the Federal Highway Administration, it brings together the latest advances in environmentally sustainable pavements. Topics include: LEED credits; recycled materials such as RAP, RAS, and tire rubber; climate change […]
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Asphalt Magazine Link
Oct 29, 2010
Thank you to Kendal Butler, Senior Editor at Asphalt Magazine for providing the link to the story we referenced in yesterday's post. We hope you'll read it to learn more about how Evotherm drop-in technology makes mix design so easy.
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Comment and Win a Thermos
Oct 29, 2010
Win a really cool Thermos! Simply comment directly on the Behind the Screed blog your answer to this question: What is the coldest ambient air temperature you have started paving? If you submit one of the lowest 5 ambient air temperatures, you win! See post from yesterday with the details.
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Great article in ASPHALT
Oct 28, 2010
Check your latest issue of Asphalt magazine for a great article by John Duval, a consulting engineer in Portland, OR, and Bob Humer, Senior Regional Engineer for the Asphalt Institute. The article brings focus to the difficulties that many warm mix technologies have in laboratory mix designs. With Evotherm this is something we’ve been thinking […]
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How COLD do you keep WARM?
Oct 28, 2010
Cold season paving is upon us or even well underway depending on where you live. Which brings me to ask: how COLD do you keep WARM? A big benefit of Evotherm is extending the paving season. Workability is maintained and target compaction densities are achieved when the cold makes paving with traditional hot mix asphalt […]
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