Contractors

Historic Gateway Arch gets complete museum roof restoration, waterproofing with asphalt bitumen in the mix Western Specialty Contractors—St. Louis Branch—recently completed a project to restore and waterproof the roof of the Museum of Westward Expansion located beneath the iconic Gateway Arch on the St. Louis Riverfront. The work is part of a multi-phase project, spearheaded […]

Whether it’s a two-lane highway, work along I-70, a college track or a parking lot, if it’s asphalt and it’s in west central Indiana, Wabash Valley Asphalt Company, Terre Haute, Ind., is after it. Although the company does some light excavation and its own stone work, its true focus is–and has always been–asphalt. “We were […]

The Buffalo Niagara International Airport for the City of Buffalo, New York, received not just a lift, but many lifts of new asphalt on parts of Runway 14-32. The airport also got a new surface course for the entire runway, which measures 5,412 by 150 feet. It took more than 48,800 tons of P-401 surface […]

American Asphalt Company, headquartered in West Collingswood Heights, New Jersey, has a culture that does things R.I.G.H.T. This acronym stands for the company’s core values: Respect, Integrity, God honoring, Honesty and Trust. A few years ago, the owner of the company, Bob Brown, joined a CEO roundtable group. This nationwide network of CEOs is called […]

When it comes to airport paving projects, accuracy in grade and slope is the great equalizer. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) specifications dictate the tolerances to which runways and taxiways must conform and those rules govern projects both large and small. When Crestline Construction won the bid to handle the rehab and replacement of Taxiway A […]

In 2016, the Russellville School District in Arkansas awarded a large contract to reroof its middle school facility. As part of the project, the general contractor took 120 tons of shingles off the roof in late December, and wisely partnered with a local roadbuilding contractor that kept the material for future use. “There was some […]

SGL Constructors has opened the Grand National Drive segment of the I-4 Ultimate Improvement Project, marking the first major milestone since the roadway’s redevelopment began. The construction team delivered the segment on time to the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) during a ribbon-cutting ceremony held the week of Aug. 14 in Orlando. The I-4 Ultimate, […]