SCAN Presents Awards for Quality and Innovation in Concrete Pavements

The Southeast Concrete Alliance Network recently presented its awards recognizing outstanding concrete pavement projects in the seven Southeastern states of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. The group presented the awards at its annual Southeast Concrete Pavement Conference, held this year at the Myrtle Beach Marriott Resort at Grande Dunes.

Projects were recognized in two categories: quality in pavement construction, and innovations.

Projects in Southeast Construction's four-state region of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina that were recognized for quality in construction included:

U.S. 64-Knightdale Bypass. North Carolina Constructors, a joint venture of Flatiron Constructors and Lane Construction, had a large share of this work, but a total of 31 subcontractors were used on this $134 million North Carolina DOT contract to ensure timely completion. The LPA Group was the engineer of this 9.6-mi.-long, six-lane project, which featured 11 ½-in.-thick PCC pavement.

S.R. 9A/I-295/I-95 Interchange. McCarthy Improvement Co. was the paving contractor for this $110 million Florida DOT project in Jacksonville. The Interchange project consisted of major reconstruction, which included roadways, new ramps, new bridges and special detours. The project included over 235,000 sq. yds. of concrete pavement, or more than 33 lane miles. The pavement is 12.5 in. thick plain jointed PCC. Parsons Transportation Group and JEA Construction Engineering Services performed the engineering.

The following projects were recognized for their innovation.

The U.S. 64-Knightdale Bypass. This project also won an innovation award, as a number of innovative approaches were used. This was the largest project in North Carolina to-date to use the design-build process. Lane Construction utilized a Guntert & Zimmerman dowel bar inserter to help speed the paving process. Another innovative technology, the MIT scanning device, was used to assure the proper location of the implanted bars.

Roller-Compacted Shoulders on I-285. Pittman Construction Co., A.G. Peltz and Costello Industries were the contractors recognized for this Georgia DOT project. GDOT chose to reconstruct failing asphalt shoulders on the west side of I-285 with roller-compacted concrete pavement, which is a stiff mix of concrete that is placed with asphalt paving equipment and rolled with heavy steel-drum rollers to achieve density. This use of RCC on an Interstate highway is the first of its kind in the country.

Gene McGovern Forms New Consulting Firm in Boca Raton

Gene McGovern recently announced the formation of McGovern Management, a new construction consulting firm headquartered in Boca Raton.

As a builder, McGovern has managed the construction of the world's tallest building, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; London's Canary Wharf; and Disneyland Paris. He also directed the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

McGovern Management is offering management expertise in all areas of real estate development, design and construction.

Florida Green Building Partnership Announced

The Florida Home Builders Association and the Florida Green Building Coalition announced a newly created partnership designed to promote affordable green building.

"The mission of the partnership is to provide a statewide green building program that creates both environmental and economic benefits," said Roy O. Bonnell, Jr., FGBC executive director. "We have accomplished this by creating a broad-based coalition of members including all sectors of the building industry, and individuals interested in the environment, academics and government."

According to FHBA and FGBC, the partnership allows the groups to: unify Florida's green building standards by advocating the FGBC Green Home Designation Standard and Green Development Designation Standard as the "green standards" for builders to follow; advocate incentives for builders and developers whose projects are certified under FGBC standards; and develop resources to educate and encourage the public to consider green building.

Since 2001, FGBC has created four green building standards for: (1) Green Homes, (2) Green Development, (3) Green Commercial Building, and (4) Green Local Governments. Under development are three new standards: Green Multi-Story High Rise Residential, Green System Built/Modular Homes, and Green Interior/Universal Design.

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