HAMM HC Series Earthwork Rollers

Page 40 • August 28, 2022 • www.constructionequipmentguide.com • Paving Section • Construction Equipment Guide With the HC series, Hamm is launching a new generation of compactors on the market. With operating weights of 24,251 to 55,115.6 lbs. and a wide range of equipment variants, they can comply with an extremely wide range of requirements.

HC Series: New Generation of Compactors for Earthworks

Hamm is attending bauma 2022, where it will present the HC series — a new generation of earthwork rollers for all markets.

The compactors achieve a high level of compaction power while simultaneously achieving a reduction in CO2 emissions. The communication capabilities are new: All models in the HC series are “digital-ready” since they can be equipped with various interfaces for the digital construction site.

One Platform for All Markets

The manufacturer is bringing together the two previous compactor series from Hamm — the 3000 series (Tier 3) and the H series (EPA Tier 4/EU Stage V) — with the HC series on one platform together with models with an operating weight of 24,251 to 55,115.6 lbs.

The diesel engines comply with the regional requirements, and their power varies between 85 and 160 kW, depending on the weight. On all models, the drum width is 84.3 in.

In addition to the previously known sales variants, in future there will be CR machines with reinforced components for applications on difficult terrain and special equipment for applications on rocky ground. New Design

The HC series is recognizable from the new, athletic design and the view channel in the engine hood. A new frame concept also guarantees increased tank volume; in particular, in future, the heavy compactors will be delivered to the construction site with an 88.8 gal. fuel tank.

Impressive Compaction Parameters

In comparison to the predecessor models, Hamm has increased the compaction power. The manufacturer has increased the centrifugal force by up to 15 percent; and the static linear load is as high as 451.6 lbs/in.

There are even innovations when it comes to the steering: A new cast articulated joint with articulated joint lock allows for a greater steering and swing angle with improved kinematics. Due to the optimized weight distribution in combination with the traction control, the gradeability also has been further improved. Furthermore, the front vehicle and the scraper have been redesigned. This has resulted in significantly increased clearance on the drum, meaning that no material can accumulate there, which eliminates cleaning work.

Great Power, Economical in Continuous Operation

Due to new approaches in machine management, the HC series achieves increased overall performance. The integrated ECO mode supports the operator so that they can work in the economical partial-load range as often as possible, which reduces the need for cooling. The speed is reduced for this — but, due to a large travel pump, without compromising the power.

This concept saves fuel and reduces the noise and exhaust gas emissions. With the optional engine stop system, the energy consumption can be reduced even further.

Comfortable Workstation Hamm also has again increased the operator comfort: The cab offers the operator over 20 percent more tread, around 30 percent increased space and numerous storage compartments. Furthermore, the vibrations and the noise level in the cab are significantly reduced due to the materials and design.

A comfortable heating and air-conditioning system, the Easy Drive operating concept, the innovative seat operating unit, the comfortable steering as well as modern ventilation round off the comfort.

Great Visibility During Day, Night

In the dark, the standard LED lights light up the environment in all working situations. At day and night, due to the view channel in the hood, the roller meets the requirements for the field of vision in accordance with DIN EN 474.

On the cab, a large additional mirror with proximity detection improves the view of the immediate environment, and design tricks guarantee low-vibration mirrors. Furthermore, the mirrors can be easily adjusted from the cab. Equipped for Digital Construction Site

The HC series is well prepared for the quality and communication requirements of the future. The “Smart Doc” app, which was developed by Hamm, graphically displays all of the key compaction parameters as well as the compaction progress, and logs the measured rigidity as well as the position data. In the Smart Doc app, even inexperienced drivers can immediately see which areas have been sufficiently compacted and which areas still require compaction. Furthermore, the compactors can communicate, even with digital applications from third parties, via a standardized interface.

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Large slope angles and powerful drives guarantee that the compactors in the HC series achieve excellent compaction on uneven and steep terrain — even on inclines over 60 percent.

Page 44 • August 28, 2022 • www.constructionequipmentguide.com • Paving Section • Construction Equipment Guide Quality in Construction... NAPA Announces Larry H. Lemon Award Winners

The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) announced the winners of its 2021 Larry H. Lemon Quality in Construction Award for excellence in construction of an asphalt pavement utilizing less than 50,000 tons of asphalt.

The winning companies received their awards during NAPA’s 2022 annual meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz.

The Larry H. Lemon Quality in Construction Award recognizes the 10 highest-scoring projects submitted for a Quality in Construction Award in the General Paving (less than 50,000 tons) category.

“The asphalt pavement industry is committed to building high-quality projects that deliver superior performance to the traveling public. All contractors’ projects earning a Quality in Construction award are measured against best practices designed to live up to that commitment,” said 2021 NAPA Chairman James Winford.

The 2021 winners and their projects, arranged alphabetically, are: • Barrett Paving Materials Inc. of Middletown, Ohio, for various roads in Springboro, Ohio • Cadillac Asphalt LLC, A CRH Co., of Farmington Hills,

Mich., for Grafton Road in Monroe County • Dunn Construction Co. Inc. of Birmingham, Ala. for the

I-65 project in Jefferson County • Jagoe-Public Co., of Denton, Texas, for FM 1378 in

Collin County • Payne & Dolan Inc., a Walbec Group Co., of Gladstone,

Mich., for M-94 in Marquette County • Preferred Materials Inc., A CRH Co. of Tampa, Fla., for 49th Ave. North in Pinellas Park, Fla. • Rogers Group Inc., of Columbia, Tenn., for U.S. 64 in

Lawrenceburg, Tenn. • Shelly & Sands Inc. of Zanesville, Ohio, for SR 682 and

SR 691 in Athens County • The Shelly Co., A CRH Co., of Thornville, Ohio, for

Morgan Run Road in Coshocton, Ohio • The Shelly Co., A CRH Co., of Thornville, Ohio, for

Winchester Pike in Franklin County

Projects submitted for a Quality in Construction (QIC) Award are evaluated by an independent pavement engineer who assigns each project a numerical score based on how well the contractor met specifications and achieved density on the finished pavement. All pavements that meet a benchmark figure earn the QIC Award.

The Larry H. Lemon Award honors the 10 highest-scoring projects, as determined in the review.

The award is named after Larry Lemon of Haskell Lemon Construction in Oklahoma City. Lemon served faithfully on the NAPA Awards Committee for 18 years, before serving as chairman of the association’s board of directors in 2010 prior to his retirement. Lemon was instrumental in the creation of the rating system for the Quality in Construction Awards, which require qualitative analysis using data and test results to determine the winners.

For more information, visit www.asphaltpavement.org. 

National Asphalt Pavment Association Honors Operational Excellence Leaders

The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) announced the winners and finalists of its 2021 Operational Excellence Awards.

“NAPA members strive for excellence beyond constructing high-quality asphalt pavements. The two categories of the Operational Excellence Awards — Asphalt Operations Safety Innovation and Community Involvement — recognize a company’s commitment to operations that make them good contractors, good industry ambassadors and good neighbors,” said NAPA 2021 Chairman James Winford.

The 2021 winners and finalists honored include:

Asphalt Operations Safety Innovation Award Winners: • Kokosing Construction Co. Inc. of

Fredericktown, Ohio, for asphalt cement loader • Superior Paving Corp. of Gainesville,

Va., for portable AEDs

Community Involvement Award Winners: • Callanan Cares at Callanan Industries

Inc., A CRH Co., of Albany, N.Y., for Callanan Cares • Ajax Paving Industries of Florida LLC of North Venice,

Fla., for Pave it Forward

The Operational Excellence Awards honor leaders in the asphalt pavement industry for excellence in community outreach with the Community Involvement Award and innovative safety practices with the Asphalt Operations Safety

Innovations. The Operational Excellence Awards are a counterpart to NAPA's annual Quality in Construction Awards, which recognize asphalt paving jobs completed in line with best practices and standards known to yield high-quality asphalt “The two categories of the Operational Excellence Awards ... recognize a company’s commitment to operations that make them good contractors, good industr y ambassadors and good neighbors.” James Winford NAPA pavements. The NAPA Awards Program recognizes and encourages continuous improvement in all aspects of paving and asphalt operations. For more information about the NAPA Awards program, or to nominate a project or company for an award, visit AsphaltPavement.org/Awards. 

Sheldon G. Hayes Awards Recognizes Highest Quality Highway Pavements

The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) announced the winner and finalists of the 2021 Sheldon G. Hayes Award for excellence in construction of an asphalt pavement.

The award, bestowed annually since 1971, recognizes the country’s highest quality highway pavements.

Eurovia Atlantic Coast, dba Northeast Paving Co. LLC, and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation — District 12 were named the winner of the 2021 Sheldon G. Hayes Award for their work on I-70 in Washington, Pa.

Finalists for the award were Seaboard Construction Co. and the Georgia Department of Transportation for I-95 in Camden County; and Shelly & Sands Inc. and the Ohio Department of Transportation District 5 for I-70 in Muskingum County.

The Sheldon G. Hayes Award winner and finalists are determined through a two-year evaluation process. All highway pavement projects using more than 50,000 tons of asphalt are eligible for consideration.

Initially, the project must win a Quality in Construction (QIC) Award, which is determined by numerical scores given by an independent pavement engineer on the basis of how well the contractor met specifications and achieved density on the finished pavement. All pavements that meet a benchmark figure earn the QIC Award.

The year after a project wins a QIC Award, it is eligible for consideration for the Sheldon G. Hayes Award. The top-ranked projects from each year are tested for smoothness, and then visually inspected by an independent pavement consultant with many years of experience in the industry.

This year, the evaluator praised all the candidates for their high-quality construction practices, which resulted in smooth, safe and durable pavements.

At NAPA’s 67th Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz., the winner and each finalist were presented with an award for their achievement.

“The asphalt pavement industry is committed to building quality pavements that deliver high performance and drivability to the public,” said James Winford, NAPA 2021 chairman.

The award is named for Sheldon G. Hayes, a founder of NAPA and the association’s first chairman. Hayes spent his entire career striving for better construction techniques and improvements in the quality of asphalt pavements.

For more information, visit www.asphaltpavement.org. 

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Ajax, Ingevity Join NAPA’s Newest Climate Initiative

Two funding partners have pledged their support for The Road Forward, an industrywide initiative of the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) to produce net zero carbon emission asphalt pavements. They are NAPA associate member Ingevity and producer member Ajax Paving Industries of Florida LLC.

In joining inaugural sponsors Cargill Asphalt Solutions and Peckham Industries Inc., Ingevity and Ajax are demonstrating their commitment to climate stewardship while advancing the asphalt pavement industry.

Family-owned Ajax Paving operates eight asphalt plants across Florida’s Gulf Coast and constructs various projects from runways to design-build. The company’s president, Vince Hafeli, has served on NAPA’s board of directors since 2015 and is currently the vice chair of the Southeast Region Advisory Council.

A NAPA member since 2002, Ingevity manufactures sustainable specialty chemicals and materials for a variety of markets, including preservation products for asphalt pavements and warm-mix asphalt (WMA) additives like Evotherm. Ingevity recently published an environmental product declaration (EPD) for Evotherm M1, making it the first chemical additive supplier to be included in NAPA’s EPD tool, Emerald Eco-Label.

In supporting The Road Forward, Ajax and Ingevity are exemplifying their values of innovation and ownership, providing industry leadership on climate action. Their support will help fund ongoing research and education to aid the entire U.S. asphalt industry in achieving net zero carbon emission asphalt production and construction by 2050.

“Ajax Paving Industries of Florida is excited to be leading the asphalt industry in paving the path forward in sustainability,” Hafeli said. “The journey to a net zero future is difficult to even comprehend. However, with NAPA as a partner, we are excited about the upcoming journey, which ties directly into Ajax being the employer, contractor and partner of choice.”

“Ingevity is very pleased to support NAPA and The Road Forward initiative as we work together to move the asphalt industry towards net zero emissions,” said Andrew Crow, vice president of pavement technologies.

“At Ingevity, sustainability is at the center of all we do. Our company’s heritage of providing renewable raw material-sourced products that promote environmental stewardship has long enabled us to help customers and end users reduce their ecological footprint, and we are excited to bring our expertise in sustainable paving technologies to the industry as we work to meet our shared climate goals.”

“For decades, Ingevity and Ajax Paving Industries of Florida have demonstrated their respective commitments to innovating on behalf of their customers and communities,” remarked NAPA President and CEO Audrey Copeland. “Their support of The Road Forward fuels our vision for the future: sustainable communities and commerce, connected by net zero carbon asphalt pavements.”

For more information about The Road Forward, visit AsphaltPavement.org/Forward.

About The Road Forward

An initiative of the National Asphalt Pavement Association, The Road Forward: A Vision for Net Zero Carbon Emissions for the Asphalt Pavement Industry calls on the U.S. asphalt community to advance technologies, products and processes to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Launched in January 2022, the multiyear effort will engage, educate and empower the U.S. asphalt community to produce and construct net zero carbon emission asphalt pavements.

About Ajax Paving Industries of Florida LLC

Ajax Paving Industries of Florida LLC provides asphalt manufacturing, along with managing and building small to heavy civil infrastructure projects from roads to runways, across southwest Florida. The company was founded in Michigan in 1951 by Herbert H. Jacob and expanded to Florida in 1981.

For more information, visit AjaxPaving.com/Florida. About Ingevity

Ingevity provides products and technologies that purify, protect and enhance the world around us. The company develops, manufactures and brings to market solutions that help customers solve complex problems and make the world more sustainable. Ingevity operates in two reporting segments: Performance Chemicals, which includes specialty chemicals and engineered polymers, and Performance Materials, which includes high-performance activated carbon. For more information visit www.ingevity.com. 

Merriam-Webster gives the essential meaning of savvy as having practical understanding or knowledge of something, having, or showing perception, comprehension, or shrewdness, especially in practical matters.

GOMACO has always been extremely savvy about concrete slipform paving and building the machines and technology needed for the highest quality pavement. The GOMACO GP3 slipform paver was featured in the GOMACO booth. It has the capability of slipforming up to 30 ft. wide and is available as a two-track or four-track paver

GOMACO’s engineers have advanced paver controls and automation and are introducing new intelligent valves on GOMACO’s line of equipment, including the GP3 paver. The new self-programming valves eliminate the need to set thresholds. The valves, working with the paver’s G+ control system, understands and can automatically react and self-adjust to the dynamics of the machine.

Initially, the valve reacts to the machine set-up and adjusts accordingly, but the operator can make fine-tuned sensitivity adjustments from any display at any time. GOMACO’s G+ software recognizes the change requests and immediately makes those adjustments. This allows automatic correction of the paver’s elevation, steering, pivoting, travel control, anti-slip positive traction of the tracks and more.

G+ controls now incorporate GOMACO’s new vibrator monitoring system with the ability to monitor, control and diagnose each individual vibrator on the paver. The touchscreen display illustrates the performance of each vibrator. The operator can see where adjustments need to be made and can make those adjustments electronically for an instant and on-the-go response.

GOMACO’s Navigator display software brought all the G+ paver accessories together for easy control and monitoring on an optional touchscreen display. It is now fully Wi-Fi capable to allow wireless control from multiple display screens anywhere on the paver. A wireless extension allows ground personnel the ability to view and make fine-tuned adjustments to the paver’s performance and configure settings for the GSI, side bar inserters, tie bar inserters, and power transition adjuster using any tablet or phone.

Machine-to-Machine communication is now possible using the GOMACO Navigator display and G+ control. When a GOMACO paving train is at work on a project, the GP3 paver now has the ability to talk to the other GOMACO equipment on the project with a G+ control system. For example, if a GOMACO placer/spreader is at work in front of a GP3 paver, the paver and the concrete being placed in front of the paver is too low, it can tell the placer/spreader to raise its strike-off and allow more concrete to be placed.

Machine-to-Machine communication introduces a new era of automation, paver intelligence and ultimate performance to GOMACO equipment.

The savvy new technology is advancing throughout GOMACO’s entire line of concrete slipform paving equipment. The new self-programming valves also are being integrated into GOMACO’s full line of curb and gutter machines. 

GOMACO GP3 at work on an airport paving project at the Ankeny Regional Airport, Ankeny, Iowa.

FleetWatcher Offers Help to Improve Behavior of Drivers

Earthwave Technologies’ FleetWatcher telematics platform monitors four key “safe driver” metrics, allowing companies to track and amend driver behavior.

This GPS-based platform captures vehicle data from either the FleetWatcher App or from an in-vehicle device. It simplifies safe driver programs by focusing on four key metrics — vehicle speed relative to posted speed limits, fast starts, hard braking, and hard turns. This data is reported continuously and can be used to assign a numeric or letter grade to drivers, who can then be commended or counseled for their performance.

Whether required by insurance carriers or as company policy, FleetWatcher customers using this feature have reported significantly improved driver grades when this is added to their safe driver programming. Here’s how it works. How Fast Is Too Fast

Speed, which is continuously monitored, can be categorized by vehicle type. For example, a pickup truck driving up to 10 mph over the posted speed limit may be deemed OK (shown in green), while 11 to 15 mph over is unsatisfactory (shown in yellow), with anything over 15 mph over the speed limit flagged as excessive (shown in red).

A tri-axle dump trailer, on the other hand, may be deemed safe while travelling up to 5 mph over the speed limit, with anything over that flagged as excessive (shown in red). Speed ranges and grades are assigned by user administrators and can be varied by vehicle type. ‘Gimme a Brake’

Fast stops, or hard braking also is monitored, as are fast starts and hard turns. Each are similarly assigned numeric or letter grades. Administrators can select how important the various safe driver aspects are, and how to aggregate them into an overall score which can then be used in driver counseling.

FleetWatcher users who have engaged in driver safety monitoring programs report significant improvements in driver behaviors, with fewer fast starts and stops, less hard braking, and more adherence to posted speed limits.

Earthwave Technologies manufactures construction-specific wireless telematic products which provide complete visibility to all components used within the process. Its Fleetwatcher Material Management Solution (MMS) is being used by asphalt paving contractors across the United States. It also offers modules for e-ticketing, off-road construction and more.

For more information visit www.EarthwaveTech.com. 