Paving

Crews that train right get bonuses. It’s that simple. Employees that understand what they’re supposed to do and how it affects the bottom line are more likely to leave behind a quality mat. So, it’s important that every paving company is providing their crews with the training they need to succeed on the job. The […]

Just as the fundamentals are imperative to having a solid foundation for success in athletics, so too can the reminder of fundamentals have positive impacts on your paving performance. It is fundamentally important that the screed is set up properly, with the right amount of slope and amount of angle of attack to compliment the […]

Make training part of your professional culture for safe, quality asphalt jobs How many times have you heard a veteran paver operator say something along the lines of “back in my day we didn’t use those newfangled computer controls” when discussing proper paving technique? He’s not wrong. There was a time not so many years […]

Whether you’re constructing a new route for the state or building a new parking lot for a private customer, the direction the water flows off the pavement matters. An engineer probably took care of the plan, but now your crew has to execute that plan. For Boxley Paving, Salem, Virginia, the team put together a […]

Norris Asphalt Paving Co shares how it won the top industry award with Iowa’s US34 project—over hill and dale Merrill G. Norris founded what is now Norris Asphalt Paving Company (N.A.P.Co.) in 1947 and the company has been paving Iowa ever since. The company purchased a portable 300 ton per hour (TPH) Barber-Greene drum mix […]

Let’s face it, concrete will crack and fail. Martin Applebaum, a general manager at Driveway Maintenance Inc., headquartered in Miami, presented at a property management companies meeting one evening in Southwest Florida, explaining to those attending that concrete is going to fail. “The purpose of the welded wire mesh is to hold the concrete when […]

In last month’s issue, we discussed how to use a little extra mix to hold heat on the transverse joint and stretch the extensions for the last pull off of a widening job. Let’s use that same project to look at a top quality job overall when you have the specific limitation of a single […]