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Excellence In Concrete Pavement Award Winners Announced

Friday, 23 September 2022 09:36
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The American Concrete Pavement Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the 33rd Annual Excellence in Concrete Pavement Awards. For over 30 years, the awards program has recognized the contractors, engineers, and project owners responsible for the country’s most outstanding concrete pavement projects. Award winners will be celebrated during the Excellence in Concrete Pavement Awards banquet on Thursday, December 1, during ACPA’s 59th Annual Meeting. 

 

This year, the Association recognizes 26 award-winning projects and the hard work, outstanding quality, and creative approaches to problem-solving demonstrated by project partners. In all, ACPA congratulates 19 unique contractors whose exceptional projects span 11 affiliated Chapter/State Associations. ACPA also expresses appreciation to the 35 professionals who served as judges of the award submittals, reviewing nomination details and scoring the projects. 

 

In keeping with tradition, the announcement of the “Gold” and “Silver” award level will remain a secret until the award presentation ceremony during the ACPA 59th Annual Meeting.  

Paving Industry Competition in Arkansas

Monday, 17 May 2021 13:30
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Healthy markets require robust competition. The paving materials market, however, has relatively little competition between industries. MIT has found that this inflates paving material unit costs. In Arkansas, findings suggest that increasing competition between paving material industries lowers paving unit costs for both asphalt (AC) and concrete (PCC)— which could result in significant savings for both departments of transportation (DOTs) and taxpayers. View the full MIT Arkansas Competition document here.