Article: Training + advanced controls = smoothness bonus.(Paving Innovations)

Training + advanced controls = smoothness bonus

A trained, motivated crew -- combined with advanced paver controls -- proved instrumental in earning a $230,000 performance bonus on full-depth asphalt paving project

Roadbuilder Shelly & Sands Inc., Zanesville, OH, received 97% of the available bonus for smoothness attained in constructing dual-lane Ohio S.R. 161 on new alignment in Franklin and Licking counties, just east of Columbus.

The asphalt paving was so exemplary that the contractor received Flexible Pavements of Ohio's Quality Award for Asphalt Paving for 2008.

Shelly & Sands received the award from the state asphalt contractor ...

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