National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) announced that McCartney Construction Co. of Gadsden, Alabama, and the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) was named winner for the 2017 Sheldon G. Hayes Award for excellence in construction of an asphalt pavement for the Anniston Eastern Bypass.
The award, bestowed annually since 1971, recognizes the country’s highest quality highway pavements. The 2017 Sheldon G. Hayes Award was presented today (Feb. 14) during the association’s 63rd Annual Meeting in San Diego.
“The asphalt pavement industry is committed to building high-quality projects that deliver superior performance to the traveling public,” said 2017 NAPA Chairman Dan Gallagher. “All contractor’s projects earning a Sheldon G. Hayes Award are measured against industry best practices, rated for smoothness a year after construction, and visually inspected to ensure the project lives up to our promise. I’m honored to say that, in earning a 2017 Sheldon G. Hayes Award, McCartney Construction Co. has exceeded these rigorous standards.”
McCartney Construction Co. was contracted by ALDOT to build a 3.62-mile section of the Anniston Eastern Bypass, also known as State Route 901. Using 123,176 tons of asphalt mixture, the company constructed a four-lane divided highway with turn lanes on the highway and McClellan Boulevard, as well as a four-lane connector at Summerall Gate Road, and rehabilitation of the northern-most mile of the project where there was existing pavement and traffic.
“The quality of work performed by McCartney Construction was excellent. They provided quality materials that were closely monitored and placed to provide a very smooth ride for the traveling public,” said ALDOT Operations Engineer William M. Corley. “They utilized quality
equipment, personnel at the production plant, and at the site where the asphalt was placed. All the materials were tested to meet exact standards for production. Proven engineering methods for placement of asphalt were used, along with great communication, to provide a quality roadway.”
McCartney Construction used several technological innovations to ensure the Anniston Eastern Bypass met ALDOT’s and the driving public’s expectations for quality. High-tech GPS-based modeling was used to provide the specific grades and slopes specified by ALDOT engineers. Also, a vehicle-mounted inertial profiler was used to check pavement smoothness in real-time.
McCartney Construction also received notice for designing the road’s asphalt mixture with 25 percent reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), an environmentally friendly, cost-effective choice.
The award is named for Sheldon G. Hayes, a founder of NAPA and the association’s first chairman. Hayes spent his entire career striving for better construction techniques and improvements in the quality of asphalt pavements.
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