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Security Paving Company Inc. has completed nearly 50 percent of the California Department of Transportation’s (Caltrans) $91 million State Route 23 (SR 23) Pavement Rehabilitation Project taking place on 8.2 mi. of highway in Ventura County from U.S. 101 to SR 118 in

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order to extend the lifespan of the busy highway.

The initiative began in the summer of 2020 and should be completed in the fall of 2023. The work is taking place in the communities of Thousand Oaks and Moorpark in Ventura County.

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Hydrema Names G&G Authorized Northern Calif. Dealer

Allan Patterson (L), regional business manager, Hydrema, and Nathan Ehni, general manager of G&G Heavy Equipment Rentals, pose next to G&G’s Hydrema 912HM articulated dump truck.

Hydrema, an articulated dump truck manufacturer, continues to expand its dealer network with the addition of G&G Heavy Equipment Rentals in northern California.

“We are pleased to welcome G&G Heavy Equipment Rental to our dealer network,” said Kris Binder, executive vice president of Hydrema North America. “Their focus of offering specialty equipment for specialized applications aligns with our products and expertise. We’re looking forward to their success.”

G&G will now carry Hydrema’s 912G-series articulated dump trucks. The 912G-series lineup consists of 11-ton capacity 912G, 912GS and 912HM (high mobility) that are powered by Cummins Stage 5 diesel engine and offer a unique multi-tip version allowing for the dump body to swing 90 degrees side to side. These models can be customized with a flatbed option and water tank.

Allan Patterson (L), regional business manager, Hydrema, and Louie Gobbi, owner of G&G Heavy Equipment Rentals, shake hands next to G&G’s Hydrema 912HM articulated dump truck.

The 912GS-series also is offered with a rail option providing the operator with the ability to perform work off-road and on-rail.

“Our journey to becoming a dealer began with a customer looking for a high flotation, low ground pressure, fast, single axel dump truck for an environmentally sensitive area,” said Nathan Ehni, general manager of G&G Heavy Equipment Rental. “We researched Hydrema online then met them at ConExpo and were impressed with the product and people.

From there, we ordered our first truck, which worked extremely well in that environmentally sensitive area.

“Our customers are impressed with Hydrema and see how the trucks can open up opportunities for them. Nothing compares to these trucks here and we’re excited to grow the brand in our territory.”

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ice,” said Allen Patterson, Hydrema regional business manager. “We look forward to working on solutions for their customer’s specialized applications.”

G&G Heavy Equipment Rentals has been fully trained in the application, sales, parts and service of Hydrema’s full product line in addition to prompt and professional parts and service support. The company supports Hydrema throughout northern California with its Geyserville, Calif., location.

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Bluebeam, AGC of California Partner for Training Development The Associated General Contractors of California (AGC) and AGC Construction Education Foundation (AGC CEF) announced a partnership with Bluebeam Inc. that features a strong focus on training, education and workforce development.

Bluebeam and AGC have committed to work together to provide a year-long program of learning opportunities in 2021, including customized online Bluebeam Academy sessions for AGC members, a webinar series focused on important industry trends and $10,000 in scholarships for skilled training or union apprenticeships.

“This partnership is such a benefit to our members and our industry,” said Erin Volk, vice president of workforce and community development of AGC and executive director of AGC Construction Education

Foundation. “Bluebeam’s generous investment in CEF will allow us to enhance our already robust training and education offerings by providing custom Bluebeam Academies at no cost to AGC members and dedicating scholarship funds to support the next generation of skilled workforce.”

The AGC CEF is a 501(c)3 that provides opportunities to grow and strengthen California’s construction industry.

Bluebeam develops innovative technology solutions that set the standard for project efficiency and collaboration for AGC professionals worldwide.

“We here at Bluebeam are excited to partner with AGC-CA to deliver on our shared vision of improving the way we build together," said Bluebeam President and Chief Customer Officer Jim Atkinson.

"We're especially looking forward to working directly with the AGC-CA to develop an entire series of trainings, webinars and learning opportunities for members that specifically address the challenges they face every day. Working together, our two organizations can make a real difference in the way our industry builds.”

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Executives Discuss Digital Construction Trends for 2021 Over the last decade or so, the construction industry has been transformed by the growing adoption of new technologies and increased digitization. The onset of a global pandemic in 2020 only accelerated the pace of this change, fueled by remote work, greater demand for remote collaboration tools, continued migration to cloud-based programs and more.

A recent webinar by global software company Egnyte, “Ten Construction and Engineering Technology Trends to Watch in 2021,” highlighted some of the major innovations, trends and technology-related challenges facing the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries today.

Omar Sheikh, senior professional services manager of California-based Bluebeam, and Ronen Vengosh, vice president of AEC and business development at Egnyte, joined moderator and construction technology consultant Carole Filion for the technology forum. They discussed trends relating to remote technology, the growth of mass quantities of digital data on projects, 3-D modeling, design technologies such as building information modeling and other virtual design and construction tools, cloud computing, collaboration technologies, automation, design-build, data interoperability and systems integration.

“The pandemic has accelerated technology adoption across the AEC spectrum,” Sheikh noted. “Before the pandemic hit, a study showed that 44 percent of projects in the U.S. were still relying on paper.

Hopefully that number has now shrunk significantly.”

A few of the take-aways from the webinar [as well as from an offline conversation with the panelists] include the following: Advances in cloud computing have enabled companies to leverage large amounts of data generated on projects in new ways. Sheikh cited the example of a

Omar Sheikh, senior professional services manager of Bluebeam, and Ronen Vengosh, vice president of AEC and business development of Egnyte, joined moderator and construction technology consultant Carole Filion for the March 3, 2021 technology forum.

large GC client that is pulling all of its data into a single repository and using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms “to really glean any insights that give them a competitive edge.”

Remote collaboration, accelerated by the pandemic, has been essential to keeping the industry going. “Companies that were sitting on the sidelines, maybe migrating slowly towards using new technology, were kind of forced to deploy at scale very quickly,” Vengosh said. “One of the legacies of the past year will be the fact that there is no turning back. [Companies now] understand how much more effective they are when everyone can collaborate remotely.”

Data compatibility and interoperability among a myriad of technology platforms and software programs poses a major challenge. One issue the industry is grappling with: how to store massive amounts of data generated by a project in a common data format that can be easily accessed over the life cycle of that project.

Data security is another key issue that requires ongoing education for businesses in the AEC sectors. There is a common misconception that ransomware or cyberattacks are restricted to government entities or large, high profile companies. “It’s not front-ofmind” for most small or medium size companies, Sheikh noted. “But we are as much at risk in the construction industry. The buildings that we build and infrastructure that we are creating is just as valuable.”

More and more applications in design and modeling technologies are now generating vast quantities of data, totaling tens of thousands of points in the point cloud [datasets that represent objects or space].

“How you get all this data and manage it is a big deal,” Vengosh said. “More importantly is how you take it out of the job site and move it to where it needs to be consumed and processed.”

Some trending topics included cloud computing, remote collaboration, data compatibility and interoperability, data security, design and modeling technologies, auotmation and process automation.

The AGC of California recently reported on a webinar by global software company Egnyte, “Ten Construction and Engineering Technology Trends to Watch in 2021,” and it highlighted some of the major innovations, trends and technology-related challenges facing the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries today.

When it comes to cloud computing, there needs to be a “holistic strategy for retaining, securing and managing data” according to Vengosh. “Folks aren’t necessarily thinking about the cloud with a full plan for addressing those security and governance needs. It’s coming but it needs to come faster.”

Increased automation offers the benefits of productivity growth on the jobsite, which may help to offset the construction industry’s skilled labor shortage.

Process automation is often overlooked, according to Sheikh. “To really be able to accelerate productivity, we don’t just need automation through technology; we need automation from agreed-upon processes that cross disciplines and connect projects from design to handoff.”

Nation’s Infrastructure Grade ‘C-’ by ASCE The state of America’s infrastructure has received an overall “C-minus” grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers [ASCE]. The grade, released within the “2021 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure” in early March, represents what ASCE called “modest but meaningful” improvements that raised it out of an overall “D” range for the first time in 20 years.

“We’re headed in the right direction, but a lot of work remains,” according to the executive summary of the report, which can be accessed at www.infrastructurereportcard.

The ASCE report graded 17 categories of infrastructure individually, with grades rang-

ing from a B in rail to a D- in transit. There were incremental gains in five categories of infrastructure – aviation, drinking water, energy, inland waterways and ports. Just one category, bridges, went down. Eleven of the 17 categories remaining in the “D” range, illustrating the continued need for more funding. Those D range categories included aviation, dams, hazardous waste, inland waterways, levees, public parks, roads, schools, stormwater, transit and wastewater.

The report pointed to three overarching trends worth noting. First, it pointed out that maintenance backlogs “continue to be an issue, but asset management helps prioritize limited funding.” Secondly, the report said that state and local governments have made progress. It cited the fact that 37 states raised their gas tax to fund infrastructure investment since 2010, and 98 precent of local infrastructure ballot initiatives passed in November 2020.

A third trend highlighted in the report: data is scarce or unreliable in some infrastructure sectors like school facilities, levees and stormwater.

ASCE used the report, which it issues every four years, to highlight the need for major new investment in infrastructure. It noted that the long-term infrastructure investment “gap” has increased from $2.1 trillion over 10 years to nearly $2.59 trillion over 10 years.

[Editor’s note: this article was written by Carol Eaton and was reprinted with permission from the AGC of California]. 

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Hawthorne Cat Service Tech Wins First Place at Competition Hawthorne Cat, the exclusive Cat equipment dealer in San Diego, the Hawaiian Islands and the Pacific Region, recently announced Andrew Holemo, Hawthorne’s Think Big Student and field service technician, won first place at Caterpillar’s nationwide Cat Trial 10: Tech Test competition, beating 17 other Cat dealer technicians.

To celebrate Cat service technicians and to recognize the potential careers these jobs provide, Caterpillar’s latest trial video — Cat Trial 10: Tech Test — showcased the knowledge of these technicians while challenging them in a competition against their peers.

Caterpillar’s latest trial video highlighted 18 dealer technicians who tested their skills through an obstacle course. The challenges are similar to problems technicians must solve when working on a customer’s product. Technicians are experts on the latest

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“Our technicians are key to helping Hawthorne Cat customers build a better San Diego,” said Chandra Ramamoorthy, Hawthorne Cat vice president. “These positions are challenging, high-tech and in high demand. These are careers that are well compensated, too. We’re hopeful this video provides people a closer look at some of the skills technicians have and how they apply them in their jobs.”

The services these technicians provide are critical for customers to help keep their businesses operating.

Technicians work in a fast-paced environment, and they understand both the iron and technology on Cat products.

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Security Paving Gives SR 23 New Look

Contractor Challenges “One of the contractor’s challenges has been issues related to COVID-19, with workers out at times to care for family members,” said Medina. “Personnel and hours have been occasionally shifted to keep the project on track. To date, approximately half of the project has been completed.”

Caltrans Resident Engineer Alan Davis agrees, noting, “The biggest challenge has been working during the COVID pandemic. When the restrictions were first implemented, it was not clear how they would impact the project, but ultimately the lower traffic volumes made it easier to complete much of the work.”

Ongoing operations revolve around removing and replacing the outside lanes in both directions of SR 23 between the 101 connectors and New Los Angeles Avenue.

Approximately 1,060 individual pavement slabs have been replaced in the first and second lanes within these limits.

“The work includes PCC pavement repair/replacement; cold plane and overlay of AC pavement on the shoulders and ramps; drainage system modification; construction of Austin vault sand filters; sign panel replacement; and modification of electrical system,” said Davis. “There are various crews that work days, nights and weekends. During the pavement operations, material was loaded and removed from the work area to allow for the next items of work to proceed —subgrade preparation and the placement of aggregate base.

During the drainage work, the material is stockpiled.”

The use of Cat dozers and excavators have been crucial for the excavation of the existing lanes and for the reconstruction effort. A portable batch plant is producing concrete that is being poured for the new lanes. The plant, as the work progresses, is being placed along the stretches of highway that have been excavated, which provides space to place materials to produce the concrete. At times, the area can be as wide as three lanes and extend for several hundred feet.

K rails separate the crews from traffic, who often have two lanes and the shoulder to complete their work in safety.

Large median sections provide areas to park equipment, store materials and for crews to hold meetings.

Several on- and off-ramps, connectors and adjacent shoulders are being dealt with.

As noted earlier, curbs ramps are being upgraded and approach slabs and bridge rails are being replaced.

On peak days there are more than 25 Security Paving and subcontractor workers on-site.

The amounts of excavated materials are still being tabulated, but on-site recycling is a crucial element to help reduce costs and lower the environmental footprint of the project.

“Security Paving has set up an on-site plant and is recycling the removed pavement material,” said Davis.

New materials being brought on-site include 23,900 cu.

The project is replacing pavement on the outer two lanes from U.S. 101 to State Route 118 to provide a service life of 40 years.

The Pavement Condition Survey (PCS) inventory indicated that the existing pavement has minor structural problems and needs pavement rehabilitation.

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adjacent shoulders are also being rehabilitated, and slabs will be replaced on the inner lane in both directions where needed. Existing curbs ramps are being upgraded where necessary at 36 locations to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA] and approach slabs and bridge rails are being replaced at five select locations. The performance measures for this project are 46.7 lane miles.”

The upgrade is much needed.

“The Pavement Condition Survey [PCS] inventory indicated that the existing pavement has minor structural problems and needs pavement rehabilitation,” said Medina. “A field investigation confirmed these findings.”

Caltrans designed the SR 23 upgrade that is intended to give the road another four decades of service The traffic management plan has three lanes in each direction open for the duration of the construction, with an auxiliary lane incorporated to shift traffic patterns as needed.

Special provisions allow Security Paving to close lanes or ramps for extended periods as needed, including 55-hour weekend closures.

According to Caltrans, “The traffic plan has been generally working, with electronic message signs directing motorists to detours when needed.”

Construction is pressing forward at a solid pace and Caltrans is making serious efforts to reduce the noise impacts.

“Noise levels will be the same level as ordinary freeway traffic and should not disturb neighborhoods nearby” said Medina. “We are monitoring noise levels during construction to minimize the impact to local neighborhoods.”

Security Paving, to date, has repaved the outer two highway lanes in both directions and replaced concrete slabs where needed on the inner lane, but grinding still needs to be completed. The 2021 construction season is focusing on repaving ramps, shoulder rehabilitation, drainage system upgrades, electrical work, improving guardrails and installing new highway signs.

The contractor is utilizing a batch plant that is placed along the stretches of highway that have been excavated, which provides space to place materials to produce the concrete.

yds. of rapid set concrete pavement, 28,000 cu. yds. of concrete pavement, 52,900 tons of hot mix asphalt; and six Austin vault sand filters.

Additional equipment being used includes: cranes, excavators; dozers, loaders, pavers, rollers, motor graders and other standard equipment, with a fair amount of Cat machinery on hand.

Security Paving has a solid record if maintaining its fleet and ensuring that daily wear and tear items are dealt with rapidly, and the routine maintenance schedules are followed.

The company purchases and rents equipment from local and regional dealerships, which are helping with servicing vehicles under warranty and providing spare parts.

Project Background/Funding The project is being funded by Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017. SB 1 provides $5 billion in transportation funding annually split between state and local agencies. According to Caltrans, road projects progress through construction phases more quickly based on the availability of SB 1 funds, including projects that are partially funded by SB 1. For more information about other transportation projects funded by SB 1, go to http://rebuildingca.ca.gov/.

“To date, Caltrans has completed more than 100 SB 1 highway projects with nearly another 500 projects currently in the works statewide and many more to come after that,” stated the project web page. “This includes repairing or replacing 115 bridges and paving nearly 1,500 lane miles of the state highway system. In the coming years, SB 1 improvements will be even more visible to the public, with many big projects soon to go out to bid. For example, in our current fiscal year 2019-20, $5.5 billion of new work from multiple funding sources including SB 1 — or $2.5 billion more than last year — will go out for bid. Caltrans is committed to conducting its business in a fully transparent manner and detailing its progress to the public.”

The stretch of SR-23, which has three lanes in each direction in most sections, carries 116,000 cars and trucks daily. or more information about other transportation projects funded by SB 1, go to http://rebuildingca.ca.gov/.  CEG

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