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Asphalt Paving Co history
Asphalt Paving Co company history timeline
Later on, in early 1800’s, Thomas Telforld built over nine hundred miles of roads in Scotland.
Typical early wagon wheel loads in the U.K. in 1809 are shown in Table 2.
In 1815, Macadam was appointed “surveyor-general” of the Bristol roads and was now able to use his design on numerous projects.
The first macadam pavement in the United States was constructed in Maryland in 1823.
The following year, 1871, Nathan.
The Cummer Company opened the first central hot mix production facilities in the United States The first asphalt patent was filed by Nathan B. Abbott of Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1871.
The first PCC pavement in the United States was constructed in 1891 in Bellefontaine, Ohio.
With regard to PCC compressive strength, Byrne reported in 1896 that PCC air cured for six months for a St Louis bridge had a compressive strength of 8.3 MPa.
In 1900, a patent for ‘Bitulithic’ pavement was filed by Frederick J. Warren.
By 1900 (as reported by Tillson), it was common to volumetrically proportion PCC as a 1:2:4 or 1:2:5 (cement : sand : coarse aggregate).
In 1901, Warren Brothers built the first asphalt facility in East Cambridge, Mass.
Some might argue that Patent 727,504 issued to Edward Walker of Warren, Pennsylvania, was actually just as important — the ice cream freezer! Warren’s actual patent claim for 727,505 follows [United States Patent Office, 1903]:
1909), a hand-mixing plant for bituminous macadam.
The focus of this review has been on those pavement types which led to asphalt pavement design. It should be noted that portland cement concrete (PCC), up until 1909, was largely used as a base or “foundation” layer for surface course materials such as bricks, wood blocks, sheet asphalt, etc.
Warrenite-Bitulithic was invented in 1910 by a retired employee of Warren Brothers.
In the 1910 City of Seattle Standard Specifications, it was stated that an “asphalt pavement shall consist of:
Further light is shed on the use of PCC as a surfacing layer by Hubbard (1910):
A 1916 report by Agg and McCullough to the Iowa State Highway Commission further illustrates some of the issues which held back the use of PCC as a wearing course.
By 1919, the Seattle Standard Plans and Specifications contained the same definition for asphalt pavement (AC over PCC) but the asphalt binder could be
“These pavements are today [1926] giving excellent service … notwithstanding the fact that these pavements were not originally designed for the severe conditions imposed by the heavy and fast modern motor traffic.”
“In 1926 the sale of pneumatic truck tires topped solids for the first time.”
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WPA Highway, Road and Street Projects, 1936 Report on the Progress of The Works Program
The “lean” PCC base (for example, a 1:4:7 mix as used by Seattle) actually was beneficial for brick surfaced pavements (after Jaster et al., 1938):
In a 1939 paper, Gray overviewed flexible pavement practice for the United States states.
The following classes were reported [1939]:
Work by Hubbard and Field [1940] for The Asphalt Institute tended to downplay the importance of subgrade bearing values, and instead, emphasized the importance of surface deflection testing as a way to characterize the overall pavement structure.
Watson Asphalt Paving Company’s history begins in the 1940’s when Ross Watson founded the firm in Ballard, Washington, by grading and paving small commercial and residential projects in the greater Seattle area.
Figure 1.11 (also from Porter [1942]) shows the thickness design curves developed from 12 years of CBR tests associated with both failed and good performing pavements on the California highway system.
Worley in 1943 reported on the use of triaxial testing and modulus of deformation results for Kansas flexible pavement design.
Hveem and Carmany [1948] found the term 6 log EWL could replace in their thickness design equation.
The association, which counts more than 1,200 companies as members, was founded in 1955.
In 1955,road construction firms formed The National Bituminous Concrete Association, a forerunner of National Asphalt Pavement Association.(NAPA). It main mandate was to undertake a quality improvement program.
Here is a photo taken in 1955 of a Lima crane loading a batch plant at the Kentucky Road Oiling Company's hot mix plant in Morgan County, Kentucky.
1956 Congress passed the Interstate Highways Act, allotting $51 billion to the states for road construction.
A 1958 Grist article about asphalt pavements for nature preserves authored by the Asphalt Institute.
The company has grown significantly over the years from the two small dump trucks, a driveway grader, a ½ ton pickup, and two small rollers purchased from Ross in 1964.
During the Tet Offensive (1968) a road crew from NMCB-121 was detailed to clear Calymore Pass and the Bowling Alley on Route 1 at Hải Vân Pass north of Đà Nẵng.
A variety of equivalency factors can be used depending on the pavement section which is defined by a Structural Number and the terminal serviceability index (for flexible pavements). The basic equation used for calculating AASHTO equivalency factors [after AASHTO, 1981]:
The company structure changed again in 1983 with James N. Long becoming 100% owner of Asphalt Paving Company, remaining at the original summer field location, and Doc.
Asphalt Paving and Supply, Inc. (AP&S), has been in business in the Prescott/Prescott Valley community since 1983, providing paving and related civil construction services to the private and public sector.
From a Goodyear publication, the following quote may be of interest [1985]:Wheels continued to evolve.
2002 The EPA announced that asphalt plants are no longer on its list of industries considered major sources of hazardous air pollutants.
In July of 2003, AP&S along with a related business, Earth Products, was acquired by McCormick Inc. of Fargo, N.D. McCormick Inc. is a holding company that wholly owns and controls the activity of several construction enterprises.
Rene Long Groce became owner/president of the company in May 2011 with the passing of her father - James N. Long.
In October 2019, NAPA and the Asphalt Institute created a joint task force to evaluate the potential of using recycled plastics in asphalt.
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