RoadsPaving

Surveying the landscape
Sixteen billion dollars: That’s how much “stimulus spending” Ottawa has committed to repairing Canada’s aging infrastructure

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Recycle plant pays dividends for Lafarge
One of the challenges in producing aggregates from recycled concrete and asphalt can be the variation in feed materials. Recycled concrete in particular can vary considerably in size, rebar content, hardness, and even colour.

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Moving mountains
Building main haul roads may be somewhat different in various parts of Canada, but there are lots of common challenges – and a strongly held common view that roads are vitally important.

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Pave the way to profits
It’s the height of the paving season, the jobs have been bid and your crews are on site ready to work.

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Bauma 2010 Preview
The latest products from the international construction, building-materials and mining machinery sectors will be on show at Bauma in Munich, Germany between 19 and 25 April 2010.

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Partnership showcases Perpetual Pavement project
At $105 million, the highway reconstruction project on Highway 401 near Woodstock, ON. is among the largest single projects in MTO history.

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B.C. Roadbuilder tackles construction challenges
For travellers on Highway 97, British Columbia’s north south arterial route, the Okanagan corridor between Kelowna and Penticton has often been one of the highway’s most memorable stretches, in terms of spectacular scenery as well as frustrating traffic congestion on winding two lane sections. For the roadbuilder on a major highway upgrade project there, the expected challenges of construction through this rugged terrain were accompanied by unexpected natural events including a potential rock slip and wildlife rescue.

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‘Pavement’ means concrete in southern Manitoba
It’s been some 80 years since the first concrete street pavement was poured in suburban Winnipeg.  Since then, municipal and provincial engineers and the general public have recognized that concrete streets and roads serve them well in the difficult climate of the Red River Valley.

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