Story by Kali Bradford | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 08.23.2024
Arnold Air Force Base has gained a new tool in its paving arsenal. Known as full depth reclamation, or FDR, it is a sustainable pavement rehabilitation technique that involves recycling the full thickness of asphalt pavement and a portion of the underlying materials (base, subbase, and subgrade) to create a new, stabilized base layer. FDR has recently been implemented in several paving......
Story by Norman Shifflett | Fort Carson Public Affairs Office | 02.07.2023
Gate 19 has had very little use because Charter Oak Ranch Road, that leads to Gate 19, was in very poor condition. That led most personnel entering Fort Carson to access the south part of the post using Gate 20. This has led to large backups at Gate 20 which regularly have extended out to the I-25 off-ramps, causing raised safety concerns....
Courtesy Story | Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 11 | 06.23.2022
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 11 places asphalt onboard Naval Air Station (NAS) Corpus Christi, repairing one runway and one taxiway....
Courtesy Story | Fort Carson Public Affairs Office | 12.13.2021
A ribbon cutting ceremony marking the completion of paving Essayons Road was hosted by the Directorate of Public Works (DPW) Dec. 13, 2021, at the project site near Gate 19....
Story by Airman Kevin Sommer Giron | 19th Airlift Wing | 02.24.2017
Smoke rises from freshly placed asphalt on a newly paved road. A large construction vehicle cloaked in black soot sits at the end of the road signifying the job is almost done. The air is dominated by the smell of hot tar as Airmen from the 19th Civil Engineer Squadron pavement and construction equipment shop work to spread the asphalt evenly....
Story by Pvt. Avery Cunningham | 172nd Public Affairs Detachment | 07.16.2015
The 189th Engineer Team Asphalt from Bridgewater, Massachusetts, assisted the Vermont National Guard by repaving parking lots in Vermont while training July, 2015....
Story by Guv Callahan | Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall | 11.06.2014
The Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall Directorate of Public Works is repaving the parking lot of the Fort Myer Commissary and expects to complete work by Nov. 7....
Courtesy Story | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 06.25.2010
An old saying goes, ‘good things come in small packages,’ but in the isolated, rural villages of Afghanistan the saying is, ‘good things come in small projects.’...
