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During the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Asphalt Recycling & Reclaiming Association (ARRA) held in Cancun, Mexico awarded and honoured the leading lights in the asphalt...
StreetLight Data, a leader in big data analytics for mobility has launched Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) for 2018 on the StreetLight InSight® platform. Providing ac...
Sika has agreed to acquire King Packaged Materials Company, a large independent Canadian manufacturer of dry shotcrete and mortars for concrete repair. With the acquisiti...
Skyjack has astounded audiences in Anaheim at The ARA Show by activating an automated self-check from Australia. The new SJ3215 patiently waited for its cue to shine at t...
Metso is pleased to welcome California-based Quinn Company to its USA distributor family as Quinn expands their Southern California customer offering by joining the Metso...
Trimble has announced the launch of Trimble Exchange, an e-commerce platform connecting Trimble’s SITECH® dealer network directly with customers in the U.S. looking to pu...
Santa Barbara Municipal Airport Named 2018’s Highest Quality Airport Pavement The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) announced that Granite Construction Co. of...
Ritchie Bros.’ massive February Orlando, FL event is the gold standard of unreserved auctions, welcoming buyers and sellers from nearly every corner of the world. N...
GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, announces that it will feature its industry-leading PaveScan® RDM asphalt density asse...
Game-changing intelligent ADAS technology combines sensor data with computer vision to learn specific road conditions and predict pothole locations CarVi, the company beh...
As part of their expansion in the USA, ALE has set up a permanent branch by moving offices to the Houston, I-10 Energy Corridor, and expanded their US operational capabil...
GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, will be highlighting its latest GPR technology at the 2019 Canadian Concrete Expo, to...
Haver & Boecker, a leading equipment manufacturer and solutions provider in aggregates and mining applications, recently named Brian Block, Wayne Knight and Scott McM...
Adding 20 extra acres for equipment display, Ritchie Bros. is aiming to make the February 2019 Orlando auction its best yet. With three weeks remaining until the six-day...
Crafco’s Lisa Zentner will be featured in the “I am a Woman of Asphalt: 100 Days until World of Asphalt 2019” countdown sponsored by Women of Asphalt (WofA). The distinct...
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has opened a new parts distribution center in Toronto, Canada, to better serve its customers in the country. The new facility is p...
Instarmac International’s Canadian partner, Da-Lee Pavement Products, have supplied Instarmac’s Manhole Installation System to the City of Niagara Falls Water Department...
The past is an unreliable predictor of the future, especially when it comes to transportation. This is an underlying message in Washington’s updated transportation policy...
Every asphalt mix producer in the United States is asked to participate in the National Asphalt Pavement Association’s annual survey on the use of recycled materials and...
Peterbilt Motors Company is displaying its lineup of vehicles for the concrete industry at World of Concrete in Las Vegas, January 22 – 25, 2019. Attendees are invited to...
Volvo Construction Equipment is adding to its E-Series compact excavators in North America with the launch of the ECR18E and the EC20E. The EC20E comes with a range of si...
ALE has performed one of North America’s heaviest crane lifts using a land based heavylift crane, lifting the 3179.5 US t (2,884.4 metric tonnes) MRU module, for an oil a...
The State of Maine Department of Transportation is at the forefront of research on how to improve road pavement quality and extend service life. They focus on improving b...
ALE has used the 354,000te/m high capacity and long outreach of the worlds largest capacity land based crane to lift the first of three modules on top of the offshore top...
GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, will be highlighting its latest GPR Technology at the 2019 World of Concrete conferenc...
With the condition and funding of the US’s road network stuck in the slow lane, what does the future hold for America’s motorists? ARTBA Chairman Bob Alger and Chief Econ...
The new Hard Rock Hotel in Florida will raise pulse rates among music fans everywhere. It will be the first-ever guitar-shaped building anywhere in the world. Standing 12...
Ritchie Bros. held its sixth and final auction of the year in Edmonton this week, selling CA$82+ million (US$62+ million) of equipment and trucks over three days, bringin...
A Kentucky concrete slipform contractor has moved in a big way into curb, gutter and parapet construction by utilizing the advanced technology available to them. Fox Ente...
Waterproofing for the Washington Weather Washington residents can thank the climate for the lush green foliage, but roads and bridges don’t share their enthusiasm. The we...
Haver & Boecker, a leading equipment manufacturer and solutions provider in mining and aggregates applications, offers a conversion kit for older model H-Class vibrat...
At Whiting Forest of Dow Gardens, guests of all ages and abilities can now discover the woods, ponds and meadows on the nation’s longest canopy walk, which is 1,400...
After 34 years, Venuti Enterprises is closing shop, selling all its assets with Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers The four Venuti brothers: Donald, Michael, Tim, and Peter, start...
Following the devastation of Hurricane Michael, Beard Equipment and John Deere donated the use of a John Deere backhoe to four local counties and municipalities in the Fl...
Pavement engineering firm The Transtec Group is part of the Bridging North America team which was awarded the Gordie Howe International Bridge public-private partnership...
On November 1 the new Central Library in Calgary, designed by Snøhetta and DIALOG, opened its doors to the public. With aims to welcome over twice as many annual visitors...
Cleverciti Systems Corp., a leader in comprehensive, high-tech solutions for outdoor and on-street parking detection, monitoring and guidance, and FoxNet, a Waterloo-base...
StreetLight Data the leader in big data analytics for mobility, today announced another major transportation market innovation with the launch of its new Annual Average D...
Austin-based pavement engineering firm The Transtec Group provided pavement design expertise to Flatiron-Dragados, LLC regarding the new Harbour Bridge project in Corpus...
Exciting change will reward the aware contractor Hop in a car and drive anywhere and chances are the drive will be on roads and highways that need patching, resurfacing,...
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