13 asphalt paving contractors had been not too long ago commemorated via the Nationwide Asphalt Pavement Affiliation for his or her high quality paintings.
APAC Kansas’ Shears Department, a CRH corporate, took the affiliation’s best prize, the 2023 Sheldon G. Hayes Award, for its 9-mile asphalt development venture on I-70 in Gove County. The Kansas Division of Transportation venture concerned the use of 76,000 heaps of asphalt to repave from 4 miles east of Park to the Trego County line.
The award is going to tasks over 50,000 heaps of asphalt that display superb smoothness. Finalists go through a two-year analysis procedure and primary needed to be decided on for NAPA’s High quality in Building Award the former yr.
Finalists for the award had been Lindy Paving and the Pennsylvania Division of Transportation, District 1, for his or her paintings on SR 90 in Erie County, and Pike Industries Inc. of New Hampshire, a CRH corporate, and the Vermont Company of Transportation for his or her paintings on VT 113 from Chelsea to Thetford.
Lemon Awards
APAC Kansas’ Shears Department additionally took two Larry Lemon Awards, which honor the 10-highest-scoring tasks for the yr.
The tasks are given a numerical ranking in keeping with how smartly the contractor met specs and completed density at the completed pavement.
APAC Shears received for paintings on U.S. 183 in Clark County, Kansas, and U.S. 54 in Meade County, Kansas.
Different Lemon winners:
- CWR Contracting Inc., a Building Companions Inc. Co., of Wildwood, Fla., for SE 73rd Ave. in Marion County, Fla.
- Cadillac Asphalt LLC, a CRH Co., of Farmington Hills, Mich., for Exeter Rd. in Monroe, Mich.
- Granite Building Co., of Everett, Wash., for fish passage in Skagit County, Wash.
- Howard Cos., of Indianapolis, Ind., for quite a lot of roads in Carmel, Ind.
- Pike Industries Inc., a CRH Co., of Belmont, N.H., for I-91 NB in Westminster, Vt.
- Scotty’s Contracting and Stone LLC, of Bowling Inexperienced, Ky., for SR 136 (Livermore Rd.) in Ohio County, Ky.
- Shelly & Sands Inc., of Zanesville, Ohio, for SR 13 and SR 550 in Athens County, Ohio
- Shelly & Sands Inc., of Zanesville, Ohio, for SR 513 and SR 761 in Guernsey County, Ohio
2023 Operational Excellence Awards
The awards had been offered at NAPA’s annual assembly in Orlando, Florida. All the way through the assembly, the affiliation additionally commemorated corporations that experience exemplified superb environmental management and group involvement thru its Operational Excellence Awards.
Winners are as follows:
- The 2023 Environmental Management Award – Tilcon Connecticut Inc., a CRH Co., of New Britain, Conn., for his or her New Britain Drum Plant
- The 2023 Neighborhood Involvement Award – Callanan Industries Inc., a CRH Co., of Albany, N.Y., for his or her Callanan Cares program, and Lehman-Roberts/Memphis Stone & Gravel, of Memphis, Tenn., for his or her Neighborhood Engagement program. Ajax Paving Industries of Florida was once a finalist for its Pave It Ahead Program.
2023 Easiest High quality Airport Pavement
Allan Myers Inc., of Worcester, Pa., received NAPA’s 2023 Ray Brown Asphalt Pavement Award for excellence in development of an asphalt pavement.
Allan Myers received for the Lancaster Airport Runway 8-26 venture in Lititz, Pa. The corporate finished milling, leveling and paving inside of a strict 28-day runway shutdown, in spite of delays because of extra rock than anticipated being found out and having to rent a blasting corporate and having to reject the primary 10 truckloads of asphalt as a result of they didn’t meet specs.
