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...
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...
Sam Bonasso, the inventor of the Mechanical Concrete design, is in Texas this week illustrating the tire-derived-geo-cylinder confinement system that has been put to use in West Virginia. Commissioned to find a solution for the millions of old tires, Bonasso, a civil...
County Takes Green Approach to Roadbuilding The Guadalupe County Road and Bridge department is installing a new kind of roadbed on a section of Elm Creek Road using recycled tires to test a road building process that could save thousands in installation and...
City of Westover Goes Green The City of Westover, WV, like most WV cities, has dealt with potholes and road problems for years. Monongahela Avenue, parallels the Monongahela River, famous for its falling banks, has been a unique problem. Traffic from businesses,...
MORGANTOWN, WV (October 3, 2012) – In the Ft. Martin/Maidsville area, over 700,000 coal trucks carrying 80,000 pound loads have used Mechanical Concrete® based industrial roads in the last 22 months with excellent results. “Reduced maintenance and normal surface...
