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Vol. XXXII • No. 19
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Still in the permitting phase, VDOT’s $3.8 billion expansion of Interstate 64/Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel is slated to be the largest project in the department’s history.
Barnhill Working on Outer Loop Segment...8
Kelly Tractor Hosts Cat Operator Challenge...28
VDOT Set to Embark on Its Largest Project Ever The I-64 Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) in southeastern Virginia is at the beginning of an expansion project to help ease congestion in the area. The project, which comes with a price tag numbering in the billions, is the Virginia Department of Transportation’s largest in history. The job is designed to provide congestion relief, increase capacity and improve safety along a 10-mile corridor in addition to supporting emergency evacuation readiness, enhancing travel time reliability and updating transportation management systems. More than 100,000 vehicles per day use the current HRBT crossing during peak travel periods.
By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
Industry Veteran Bruce Knapp Dies...30
Table of Contents ................4 Truck & Trailers Section..........................37-40 Attachment & Parts Section..........................42-45 Recycling Section ........49-62 Business Calendar ........86-89 Auction Section ................84 Advertisers Index ..............90
see VDOT page 24
Geotechnical engineers working on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion examine soil borings taken on the project’s South Island.
Team Looks to Turn CO2 Into Pre-Fab Concrete By Lori Lovely
Carbon Upcycling UCLA/CO2 Concrete, one of 10 teams competing in the final round of the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, is hoping to win $7.5 million for demonstrating the most practical technology CEG CORRESPONDENT
for turning carbon dioxide emissions into a useful end product. Whoever wins the competition in 2020, the world has already won, due to the team’s innovative solution to the excesses of CO2 produced by power plants and other heavy industry plants.
The UCLA team plans to turn carbon dioxide from flue gas — the exhaust gases from a coal-burning power plant — into pre-fabricated concrete blocks called “CO2Concrete,” a trademarked name. The goal is to produce up to 10 tons of the product each day. The blocks will then be used in demonstration construcThe UCLA team plans to tion projects. turn carbon dioxide This innovative process from flue gas — the takes CO2 from coal-burnexhaust gases from a ing power plants and heavy coal-burning power industry and converts the plant — into pre-fabriwaste gas into pre-cast cated concrete blocks concrete building compocalled “CO2Concrete.” see CONCRETE page 20