In late November, EnviroRail, a railroad service contractor located in Omaha, NE, made the first step in changing the future of railroad-maintenance construction by licensing Mechanical Concrete®. Mechanical Concrete®’s patented, innovative process takes a cylinder...
Mechanical Concrete® Pothole Terminator, an ASCE Grand Challenge award-winning solution to potholes, was presented to national scrap tire industry leaders and state regulators at the 7th Scrap to Profit Conference (STP) in Nashville, Tennessee, sponsored by the...
Mechanical Concrete® Pothole Terminator Attention Excavation Contractors and DBES: The lowly pothole is one of the major challenges to every road owner. Until now, most potholes were just patched over; there was no repair method that would eliminate the problem....
Rural roads constitute a significant proportion of the total road network in most developing countries. In so doing, they contribute significantly to poverty reduction, through the services they provide to the poor and to priority social and economic sectors, and...
A tire reuse technology, Confined Aggregate Concrete, recently won the first American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Grand Challenge Infrastructure Innovation Contest for most feasible green engineering idea. What is Confined Aggregate Concrete? Confined Aggregate...
On April 17, 2014, the Auburn University Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) held its 4th annual luncheon at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center. The keynote speaker for the event was Samuel G. Bonasso, a registered civil...
A news story in the San Antonio Express News by reporter Jennifer Hiller asks the question Could old tires help fix roads in the Eagle Ford Shale? http://m.mysanantonio.com/business/eagle-ford-energy/article/Could-old-tires-help-fix-roads-in-the-Eagle-Ford-5173275.php...
The cost of Mechanical Concrete® is geared to the cost of tire-derived-geo-cylinders. Tire-derived-geo-cylinders, TDGC, can be purchased anywhere in the US in one-half lane mile, project quantities (approx. 2 truckloads) for $2.00 each plus freight. Freight costs run...
Mechanical Concrete® inventor and civil engineer Samuel G. Bonasso will teach a short course to attendees of the Texas Public Works Association Meeting on February 4, 2014, 9:30AM at the Hilton Garden Inn in Lewisville, Texas. Participants in this session will examine...
Sounds like an amazing claim. It’s a fact that’s vitally important in today’s economy with its shrinking road maintenance budgets. Industrial trucking destructively impacts all roads and particularly rural, low volume farm-to-market roads. There are few options for...
