Jason Mapes has been traveling a lot this summer, including to a remote area of Alaska, where ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. paved a runway site with Evotherm WMA. The project was located in Kuparuk, Alaska, at the Ugnu-Kuparuk Airport, a private-use airport that’s used to transport workers on and off the ConcoPhillips oilfield site. With the potential for […]
Have you ever hung your equipment from winches and needed to rappel to get a density measurement to meet a 97% minimum density specification? The joint venture team at ACA Moltz JV, comprising of ACA Products, Moltz Construction and Moltz Constructors met these challenges using asphalt containing Evotherm from Suncor Energy while repaving the Homestake Reservoir Dam. Located in Eagle […]
Did the PGA Championship get you ready to come visit? South Carolina is honored to host the 71st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (SASHTO). The conference is scheduled for August 25-29, 2012, at the Charleston Place Hotel right in our backyard (almost). The agenda is packed, Charleston is beautiful, and […]
Author: Heather Dolan
Curran Contracting and William Charles have been hard at work on Illinois Tollway I-88 East. They are producing SMA without fibers and with Evotherm for this 220,000 ton job. The mix is an IL 12.5mm N80 SMA Friction Wearing Course along with 12% Fractionated RAP, 5% RAS, and Evotherm. Curran’s DeKalb, IL, location produces the mix through their counterflow plant at […]
NAPA held their 2012 Midyear Meeting last week. The theme "Magnificent Opportunities for Asphalt: Overcoming Challenges, Delivering Solutions," reflectsed the central messages of the event's plenary sessions. An added bonus was a legislative update by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee member Rep. Reid Ribble (R Wis.), a former roofing contractor, and Janet F. Kavinoky of Americans for Transportation […]
Better Roads posted a web exclusive last week highlighting how the Illinois Tollway, the City of Chicago, and IDOT are saving money and the environment by using recycled asphalt shingles. “It’s been determined that about $30 per ton is being saved,” says Jay Benhke, owner of S.T.A.T.E. Testing. “The Tollway has seen savings in its stone-matrix […]
A new WMA usage survey is underway. Once again NAPA has been contracted by FHWA to conduct a survey of asphalt producers in the United States to measure 2011 production levels and the use of recycled materials on a state-by-state level. They need your help to ensure that industry use of hot-mix asphalt (HMA), warm-mix […]
HMA Contractors in Tennessee saw a nice success with Evotherm in a polymer modified PG76-22 mix containing 15% RAP. In all 7,000 tons of mix were placed on State Route 258.The counter flow drum plant typically produces this mix at 330 F. Using Evotherm, they lowered the temperature by 40 degrees to 290 F while maintaining […]
Twitter is buzzing with the news that the concrete paving used for Boston's Big Dig project is failing after only nine years when it was supposed to last 30 years. MassDOT says "The frequency of the problem now warrants a complete removal of the concrete and repaving with hot mix asphalt pavement." Repairs are set […]