“Even though the compaction of soil is a process [that] began hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago,” Luke Sevcik product application and training specialist for Wacker Neuson, guesstimates, “the ...

Pavement performance depends on many factors. Mix designs, ambient and mix temperatures, rolling methods, joints, and types of equipment used can all be analyzed and tweaked to deliver a better ...

Rollers with intelligent compaction telematics-based features are making a safety difference on night projects. Bryce Wuori, owner of Wuori Technology Consulting, Bismarck, North Dakota, helps ...

Looking to squeeze more work out of every drop of fuel? Don’t overlook the benefits of intelligent compaction on your site prep and road construction projects. Onboard technologies like Cat Compact ...

How often have you run over a nasty pothole or gotten a headache from driving on the bumpy pavement? No matter where you live, everyone claims to have the worst roads — and everyone’s rights to a ...

Proper asphalt compaction is the key to ensuring the life of roads, and finding new ways to measure that compaction is seen as the key to improving infrastructure construction. To extend the life of ...

Nationwide research is firming up the case for “intelligent” compaction, a construction method three decades in the making that could save billions of dollars a year in potholed roads, cracked bridges ...

Highway construction often faces challenges in ensuring long-term subgrade performance due to traditional compaction quality control (QC) methods that rely on manual ...

Sundt Construction’s first use of intelligent compaction technology, on a nine-mile highway expansion in central Arizona discovered some sub-par subgrade compaction that would have been overlooked ...

SPICER -- A three-mile stretch of road east of Green Lake is serving as an experimental station for the first-ever national study on intelligent compaction. The data will help shape the future for ...