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® March 30 2022 Vol. LXIV • No. 7
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Philadelphia Airport Uses Unusual Material in Paving Operation
Collapsed Bridge Replacement Could Begin Soon…8
Mecalac Shows Benefits of MCR Line Through Videos…12
Because most of the airport traffic and work happens during daytime, night paving operations further minimized interruptions at the airport.
By Chuck MacDonald CEG CORRESPONDENT Truck Industry Reunites at Work Truck Week 2022…47
Table of Contents ................4 Attachments & Parts Section ..........................39-46 Truck & Trailer Section.......... ......................................47-52
Several million bottles were destined for a landfill when they hit a stop sign. The new destination was a manufacturing site where the bottles were transformed into a unique aggregate for a paving project at Philadelphia International
In Out of the Rain
Omnibus Appropriations Act Covers Transportation Under Funding Umbrella
Aggregate & Recycling Section ..........................57-77 By Lucy Perry
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Auction Section..........98-108
Signing the $1.5 trillion 2022
Business Calendar ..........100 omnibus spending bill into law in midAdvertisers Index ............106
Airport (PHL). The unusual aggregate weighed approximately 75 percent less than traditional stone, required 1,000 fewer truckloads to haul and was produced by a local supplier, Aero Aggregates. The material called ultra-lightweight foam glass aggregate (UL-FGA) was grayish in color and looked like pumice stone. The substance
March, President Joe Biden released the full benefits of last fall’s bipartisan infrastructure and jobs act. Not only does
highway work move forward with the spending bill’s signing, but energy, maritime, transit, water and airport construction projects launch as well. Praised by the transportation construction industry for its broad infusion into the U.S. economy for years to see OMNIBUS page 78
had been used before on projects at PHL. The paving project was for the construction of a remain overnight (RON) parking apron on the airport’s west side. The year-long project is expected to be completed in June 2022 at an approximate construction cost of $32 million. The project was aided by a $2 million grant see AIRPORT page 88
