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Article: Innovative Work.(Merrill Municipal Airport reconstruction project done by Becher-Hoppe Associates got Wisconsin Asphalt Pavement Association Innovation Award)
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- February 3, 2005
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By Barry Gantenbein, Editor, Western Builder
Recycled pavement, fly ash stabilization used in airport construction in Wisconsin
What a difference a year can make.
At the end of 2003, alligator cracks scarred old asphalt general aviation aprons at the Merrill Municipal Airport near Merrill, Wis. Bids that year to reconstruct approximately 5,000 square feet of aprons as part of a runway improvement and expansion at the airport had been considered too high by the Merrill Airport Commission, and had all been rejected.
By the end of 2004, the work had been re-bid and the old aprons had been replaced with new asphalt aprons constructed using ...