The theme of World of Asphalt 2015 is "Lay a Base for Innovation" and that is what Volvo Construction Equipment hopes to help contractors accomplish with their new Intelligent Compaction system with ...

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“Even though the compaction of soil is a process [that] began hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago,” Luke Sevcik product application and training specialist for Wacker Neuson, guesstimates, “the ...

Highway construction often faces challenges in ensuring long-term subgrade performance due to traditional compaction quality control (QC) methods that rely on manual adjustments and sporadic testing.

Sundt Construction’s first use of intelligent compaction technology, on a nine-mile highway expansion in central Arizona discovered some sub-par subgrade compaction that would have been overlooked ...

BOMAG's Terrameter technology in a roller cab. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) defines intelligent compaction (IC) as “the compaction of road materials, such as soils, aggregate ...

How often have you run over a nasty pothole or gotten a headache from driving on the bumpy pavement? No matter where you live, everyone claims to have the worst roads — and everyone’s rights to a ...

Pavement performance depends on many factors. Mix designs, ambient and mix temperatures, rolling methods, joints, and types of equipment used can all be analyzed and tweaked to deliver a better ...

HAMM compaction equipment delivers the cutting-edge technology needed to support ever-changing jobsite challenges and application requirements. Antioch, TN (PRWEB) - HAMM Rollers are equipped with the ...

Before the advent of diesel-fueled rollers, road-building crews relied on the ponderous feet of elephants, cattle and other unwieldy beasts to create a solid foundation for the anticipated roadway.