Crossfire Seeks Plant in Colorado Crossfire Aggregate Services has applied to open a gravel mine and concrete factory at Durango, in La Plata County, Colo., in the Bondad area about a half-mile from the Animas River, according to the Durango Herald. The operation will produce up to 876,000 tpy of aggregate, while the concrete plant is designed to produce up…
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Telling Your Story in a Book
Online Publishing Presents A New Opportunity For Businesses To Tell Their Story. By Thomas J. Roach
Read MoreSilos Can Kill Your Strategies
Departments That Think Only About Themselves Will Destroy Teamwork. By Steve Schumacher
Read MoreApp of the Month – July 2015
Noise Monitoring App Casella CEL offers the dBadge2, the world’s first shoulder mounted, cable-free Noise Dosimeter with Bluetooth 4.0 communications to Apple or Android mobile devices. Available in three models, the dBadge2 package comes with the free Airwave App that captures every metric needed for noise exposure regulatory requirements, reducing the time and costs typically associated with personal noise monitoring…
Read MoreHumanizing the Engineering Profession
David E. Goldberg, president of Big Beacon and emeritus professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Mark Somerville, professor of engineering and associate dean at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, are two men on a daring mission. Their goal is to transform the entire world of engineering. Their objective is simple – they want to humanize the engineering profession.…
Read MoreHelp Us Celebrate 120 Years of Rock Products
With this issue, we kick off Rock Products’ 120th year celebration. That is 120 years of serving the aggregates, cement and nonmetallic minerals industries from 1896 to 2016. Rock Products has been published longer than any other industry magazine. Our 120th year coverage will be a 12-month exercise in demonstrating how history has brought us to where we are today, and how…
Read MoreFirst Look – July 2015
TOP NEWS Granite Construction Sees Construction Materials Increase Construction Materials revenue in the first quarter of 2015 increased 16.8 percent to $41.4 million, compared with $35.5 million last year. America’s Rural Roads In Critical Need of Repair A new report released by TRIP finds that the nation’s rural transportation system is in need of improvements. U.S. Open Played on Reclaimed…
Read MoreOff-Highway Diesel Fuel
The national estimated average price-per-gallon for off-highway diesel fuel as of July 29 is $2.442. That is lower than the previous comparison price-per-gallon of $2.559.
Read MoreOff-Highway Diesel Fuel
The national estimated average price-per-gallon for off-highway diesel fuel as of July 8 is $2.559. That is lower than the previous comparison price-per-gallon of $2.623.
Read MoreGuest Editorial: Congress Falls Short on ’16 Transportation Budget Resolution
Just about any driver who has hit a pothole or sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic knows that our nation’s roads, bridges and highways are in bad shape. The American Society of Civil Engineers gives our nation’s roads a D+ grade. There are 10,000 bridges in the U.S. that are so old that they qualify for Medicare and, yet, are still bearing…
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