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Inside
Changes Urged for Use of Slag on Pa. Roads
D/N Excavating Flourishes Under Co-Owners…8
ICUEE 2013 Attendance Impresses Many...22
ConExpo Retro See page 48 for an ongoing series of highlights from past ConExpos as they were reported in the pages of CEG.
Table of Contents ................4 Crawler Loaders, Dozers, Undercarriages & Parts Section ..........................77-83 Paving Section ..............85-99 Snow & Ice Section..121-125 Parts Section....................126
By John D. Oravecz PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Construction began Jan. 21 on the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) project to rebuild and improve a 4.3 mi. (6.9 km) stretch of U.S. Route 13 (also known as the Bristol Pike) in Bucks County, southeastern Pa.
Crews Improve Stretch of Bucks County’s Route 13 By Mary Reed CEG CORRESPONDENT
Construction began Jan. 21 on the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) project to rebuild and improve a 4.3 mi. (6.9 km) stretch of U.S. Route 13 (also known as the Bristol Pike) in Bucks County, southeastern Pa. Crews will be at work for two and a half years. The result will not only extend the life
of Route 13 but also increase safety for its users. According to PennDOT, the project is needed due to deterioration of both the highway’s pavement and its 1940s vintage drainage facilities. This has been a relatively fast-moving project, given all the preliminary engineering and environmental clearances were in hand in May 2009, with final design
PITTSBURGH (AP) Millions of tons of slag — a steelmaking byproduct — are available cheaply and safely for road and construction projects nationwide, but in western Pennsylvania use of the material is limited, putting state officials at odds with producers. Slag processors and even U.S. Steel Corp. are unhappy with a 5-year-old PennDOT directive that imposed strict limits on the amount of water that slag used for road construction here can absorb. Companies say the directive has reduced sales by up to 30 percent and caused layoffs. PennDOT began limiting the use of slag in three districts in western Pennsylvania because of problems in 2009 on Interstates 70 and 79 in Washington County that the state said required $13 million in repairs. “PennDOT has and continues to work with the Steel Alliance and slag manufacturers ... but we must take steps to ensure the success of road projects,’’ said Rich Kirkpatrick, an agency spokesman in Harrisburg. The slag used in road construction projects that had to be repaired absorbed too much water, causing pavement to settle as much as 4 in. (10 cm), Kirkpatrick said. The road surface cracked, joints failed and congealed slag blocked drainage outlets. The National Slag Association, which represents
see BUCKS page 110
see SLAG page 116
Federal Contractors Face New Hiring Rules On Sept. 24, the U.S. Department of Labor’s
individuals with disabilities. Both rules will take
Programs published two new rules in the
One rule updates the Vietnam Era Veterans’
contractors on federal construction projects to
federal contractors and subcontractors from dis-
Auction Section ......130-148 Office of Federal Contract Compliance effect on March 14, 2014.
Business Calendar ..........136 Federal Register, requiring contractors and sub- Readjustment Assistance Act, which prohibits Advertisers Index ............146 take steps to improve hiring of veterans and criminating in employment against protected
veterans, and requires these employers to take affirmative action to recruit, hire, promote, and retain these veterans. VEVRAA protects disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge vetersee RULES page 132