Hank’s Excavating led by Hank Rohwedder, President, and his son Corey Rohwedder, Superintendent, poured an eight-inch-wide (twenty-centimeter) and six-inch-tall (fifteen-centimeter) curb. The typically-simple profile was complicated because of its location beneath a guardrail so the mold had to be specially designed to offset the concrete. In addition, IDOT required that the curb be… Read More »
On its busiest days, the New York State Fair’s attendees nearly match the entire population of Syracuse where the fairgrounds are located. This strains the local infrastructure for thirteen days when the fair is open. In the summer of 2018, the state completed a renovation to their largest, “Orange,” parking lot which added… Read More »
You have one of the largest opportunities of your career within reach but you lack the tools to take advantage. Would you throw up your hands and miss out because you aren’t prepared? Or would you take a leap of faith and get the best tool for the job even if you aren’t… Read More »
Who says pennies are useless? In 2012, Richland County voters in South Carolina approved a 1% special sales and use tax titled the Transportation Penny reserved for local road improvements. One of the projects coming to life through this initiative is the extension of Shop Road immediately southeast of Columbia. Shop Road is… Read More »
At ten years old, you could have found Micah Flowe helping his father pour a sidewalk for their church over the weekend. At twenty-two, you could have found him starting his own company. Now, at thirty, you might find him atop one of his three Power Curbers 5700 series curb machines. Micah began… Read More »
With the machines we had, we couldn’t have poured that 84” barrier wall.” Derek Commander, owner of Command Construction chose to upgrade his fleet by purchasing a Power Curber 7700 Multipurpose Slipform Machine in Spring, 2018. Prior to the purchase, Command used a competitive multipurpose slipform machine for barrier work but that machine… Read More »
Imagine how helpful it would be to win a complex, 18,000 linear foot (5,500m) job where you expect to hand form roughly 200 feet (61m) per day, but then you find a way to slipform that job at 1,500 feet (457m) per day. Mark Bartholomew, Superintendent of A&K Slip Forming, Inc. did precisely… Read More »
Highland Park, Pittsburgh’s water reservoir is 4,700’ (1,433m) in circumference and last winter the concrete wall surrounding it was in disrepair. Bazella Group Concrete & Masonry was contracted to tear out and replace 1,500’ (457m) of the wall. But after studying the project, company president Justin Bazella approached the general contractor with the… Read More »
3D or stringless control systems for concrete slipforming equipment are becoming more popular by the season. Labor shortages, competitive bidding, and scheduling flexibility are some of the most common reasons companies choose to go stringless. Elliot Jones, Managing Partner of 3D Concrete Solutions, has a different perspective, “I looked at it as training… Read More »
Five years ago, Danielle Williams didn’t know the difference between precast curb and slipformed curb. Williams was focusing on her three boys and her interior design firm. Meanwhile, her high school sweetheart, Richard Williams, led his own asphalt maintenance company, Williams Brothers Paving, which he founded in 2000. Things were going well for… Read More »
