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 »
Opened for traffic in October 2020, the 5.6-mile (9 km) Atal Tunnel in India became the world’s longest tunnel at an elevation higher than 10,000 feet (3,048 m). Connecting Manali and Keylong cities in the Himalayan mountain range, this tunnel cut travel time from six to seven hours down to two. Previously, the… Read More »
Eight miles downriver from Niagara Falls, Grand Island Senior High School suffered from forced athletic forfeits. Surrounded by the Niagara River on the United States/Canadian border, parts of Grand Island, New York, have a high water table and poor drainage. Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Brian Graham, describes how it affects their athletics, “The… Read More »
Adam Hopkins has been a Power Curber believer since “Day 1” of his introduction into the concrete business. His reasoning? Productivity. He is the Concrete Division Manager of Florida Asphalt & Concrete (FAC), a high-production curb contractor headquartered in Tampa, Florida. The concrete division of the specialty company is “all curb, all day,… Read More »
