AsphaltPro: The Blog

Your crew has the potential to kick up dust on a pavement maintenance project. Look at the beginning of the process when you’re cleaning the pavement surface. That’s a vital step—you can’t skip it. Yet the broom you use could be putting ground workers at risk for lung problems. The way you protect them is by […]

Drones – the aerial eye of the jobsite – have become a very versatile tool for earthmoving operations. Among the benefits, increasing efficiency, productivity, and accuracy on jobsites. In addition, drones help reduce unplanned costs and rework throughout a project by providing a steady stream of jobsite progress data. As drone technology evolves, the greater the […]

Any QC/QA director will tell you that having a clean, organized lab environment lends itself to safety. Let’s look a little more deeply at safety in the lab. Almost all preparation and testing of asphalt requires heating or cooling it to potentially dangerous temperatures. Your activities may require fire-retardant and heat-resistant clothing; eye protection; and gloves; […]

Transportation construction companies from four states were recognized Sept. 26 for their outstanding employee safety programs during the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) Annual Convention, held in Nashville, Tenn. The annual ARTBA “Contractor Safety Awards” were created to promote worker safety and health as core values of the transportation design and construction industry. […]

Three transportation construction professionals, a transportation researcher, and a company program that connects and empowers female employees were all honored with the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation’s “Women Leaders in Transportation Design & Construction” awards Sept. 26. The honors were bestowed during the association’s national convention in Nashville, Tenn. Ethel Birchland Lifetime […]

Those of you who read these notes on a regular basis know I admit to re-writing and editing the living daylights out of them prior to publication. I tend to obsess. Count this treatise on sensor and wiring updates among those receiving the obsessive-compulsive disorder treatment before upload because, true to form, I felt the […]