This year’s most active U.S. construction materials deal maker, Summit has added ready mixed and aggregate properties in markets where it only recently staked claim, closing on Con-Agg of MO, LLC in Columbia, Mo., and Altaview Concrete Inc. in Sandy, Utah
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Hdpe Pipe Failure Spawns Costly Texas Fish Hatchery Drainage Replacement
The John D. Parker East Texas Fish Hatchery, scheduled for an early-2011 stocking, is the latest major instance of high-density polyethylene pipe failure. Sections of 60-in. and 48-in. diameter corrugated HDPE drainage structure collapsed under 10 to 17 ft. of earth fill, and an 11,000-ft. stretch of the flexible pipe was determined
Read MoreFhwa Approaches Hoover Dam Bypass Opening With Ceremonial Roadway Walk
“Bridging America” is the theme of an October 16 pedestrian event at the centerpiece of the U.S. 93 Hoover Dam Bypass: the Colorado River Bridge, whose 1,900-ft. roadway soars 900 ft. above the Black Canyon and bears on prolific twin concrete arches. The structure consists of segmental cast-in-place and precast concrete arch members, spandrel columns and piers
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