CONCRETE PAVEMENT
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BY JESSICA LOMBARDO, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Consistency Key to Paving
AIRPORT RUNWAYS
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ost construction companies you talk to do not voluntarily sign their crews up to complete airport paving projects. It’s grueling, painstaking work that requires intensive training and permitting by your crew. Yet for Atlantic Contracting & Materials, airport paving is their specialty. “We service anywhere from North Carolina to New Jersey along the I-95 corridor doing Department of Defense and Federal Aviation Administration work,” Seth Lillard, plant manager at Atlantic Contracting says. “Military bases and FAA government airfields are our bread and butter.” Atlantic Contracting has extensive experience navigating the changing specifications associated with these type of projects, and knows what it takes to successfully complete them. MOBILITY MATTERS From the spring to fall of 2021, Atlantic Contracting was busy
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reconstructing runways at two different airports, Washington Dulles International and Andrews Airforce Base. In order to keep a consistent supply of mix running at both sites, Atlantic needed equipment they knew could keep up. The company has been using RexCon Model S concrete plants since the 1970s. They currently have 2008,
Atlantic Contracting and Material Co. Inc. were hired to pave both the Dulles International and Andrews Airforce Base at the same time. Causing them to purchase a fourth RexCon Model S concrete plant. They used a Guntert & Zimmerman S850 Quadra Bolster Concrete Slipform Paver. Atlantic Contracting and Material Co. Inc.
ONE FAMILY, FOUR DIVISIONS Atlantic Contracting and Material Co., Inc. is a fourth generation general contractor serving the Washington Metropolitan Area. The first generation, under R.T. Madden, started out building gravel roads in Wisconsin. They paved city streets, curbs, gutters, and progressed to highway paving. R. T. Madden’s son, John, joined the business in the 1950’s and became president in 1963. He expanded the business to include aggregate crushing and recycling, materials and demolition. John Madden relocated in 1984 to the Metropolitan Washington Area renaming the company Atlantic Contracting and Material Co., Inc. and began working on many key federal and regional government projects. John’s son, Tom Madden, joined the business in 1984, became president in 2003 and expanded the business to include excavating, grading and underground utilities. John’s son Michael Madden joined the company in 1992 and grandson Matt Madden in 2011. Today, the company has nearly 100 employees operating in four different divisions.
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