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Equipment & technology that impacts productivity
Paving Industry Report - May 25, 2021 22:31 - 41 minutesThis interview features: Kevin Gray: President of ADC Paving based in Louisville, Kentucky (Serving Kentucky and Indiana) Tom Eosso: Vice President of Eosso Brothers Paving based in Farmingdale, New Jersey (Serving all of New Jersey) 0:00 Welcome 1:10 the answers from the pole 2:40...
Looking to improve in 2021
Paving Industry Report - May 19, 2021 21:56 - 21 minutesThe full report and this video breakdown is now available thru the link in our bio OR visit adcpaving.com/report. This interview features: Kevin Gray: President of ADC Paving based in Louisville, Kentucky (Serving Kentucky and Indiana) Brian Hess: President of The Pavement Group, Top C...
What to look when hiring
Paving Industry Report - May 19, 2021 21:43 - 17 minutesKeith Callaway: CEO of K & L Industries based in Portland, Oregon Kevin Gray: President of ADC Paving based in Louisville, Kentucky (Serving Kentucky and Indiana) The purpose of the Paving Industry Report by ADC Paving is to provide helpful insight using the combined knowledge of the spe...
Paving Industry Report Preview
Paving Industry Report - May 19, 2021 21:38 - 25 minutesThe full report and this video breakdown is now available thru the link in our bio OR visit adcpaving.com/report. The purpose of the Paving Industry Report by ADC Paving is to provide helpful insight using the combined knowledge of the speakers, guests, and audience to explore and assist c...
Lesson Learned from 2020
Paving Industry Report - May 07, 2021 03:01 - 22 minutesThis interview features: Scott Spano: President of Intercounty Paving based in Carmel, New York (serving Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess Counties) Kevin Gray: President of ADC Paving based in Louisville, Kentucky (Serving Kentucky and Indiana) The purpose of the Paving Industry Repor...
EXCLUSIVE: Federal Highways Chief Bullish on 2020
Hard Facts - December 11, 2019 20:03 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe nation’s top highway official is optimistic Washington can make progress on a new funding plan for transportation infrastructure in 2020. Federal Highway Administrator Nicole Nason explains the Trump Administration’s view of the on-going federal funding debate and expresses optimism...
A Gift from Congress
Hard Facts - December 05, 2019 17:44 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBrandye Hendrickson, Deputy Director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, discusses the impact of the decision on infrastructure work, and her organization’s focus on highway safety concerns. Links: Presidential Candidates Will Talk Infrastructure...
The Road Ahead
Hard Facts - November 27, 2019 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWashington may be focused with impeachment, but there's another "I" word that also warrants our attention. That's "I" for infrastructure. Are we on the road to nowhere, or is there hope for the future of surface transportation in America? Tanya Snyder, transportation reporter for Politi...
When the Levee Breaks
Hard Facts - November 20, 2019 17:22 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThere are 90,000 dams in the U.S. across 44 states. Just over 1,600 of them pose potential risks, according to a recent Associated Press investigation. Risk and water levels are only rising as we see more extreme rainfall amidst intense storms that challenge the strength of our nation’...
The Future of the Interstate
Hard Facts - November 13, 2019 20:37 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt is no secret that America’s worn out interstate highway infrastructure has surpassed its intended shelf life. Our current highway system can’t keep up with increasing severe weather events and rising levels of congestion. Infrastructure investment is necessary, yet Congress still str...
Reading Economic Tea Leaves
Hard Facts - November 06, 2019 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsInterest rates. Public sector investment. Jobs. Tariffs. Consumer confidence. These and other factors weigh on the minds of economists sorting through the tea leaves that are leading indicators of spending, orders for manufactured goods, and government contracts. On this episode, Ed Su...
More Transportation Dollars? Just Say No!
Hard Facts - October 30, 2019 17:32 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsGroups come from all over America to ask Congress and the Administration for more money. The needs are many and the dollars few, so the push, often times, is intense. The federal government plays a key role in so many initiatives across all 50 states, but there aren’t many that are gr...
Emergency Weather Advice
Hard Facts - October 23, 2019 10:36 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEmergency managers know what it takes to recover from natural disasters. That’s why they’re telling states, counties, and cities to act now to prepare for storms, wildfires, and other calamities. David Paulison, the longtime chief of Miami Dade Fire Rescue, rose to national prominence i...
How to Overhaul Federal Funding Plans
Hard Facts - October 16, 2019 15:06 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWashington is mesmerized by discussions of the spending that could be included in the next transportation reauthorization. Observers for more than a year have speculated about dollar amounts, paying little or no attention to the formulas that send federal bucks to the states each year. ...
Transportation Dollars Move the U.S. Economy
Hard Facts - October 09, 2019 16:31 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJust how much impact does transportation spending have on the U.S. economy? The influential Business Roundtable, a Washington, D.C.-based organization representing the CEOs of America’s top corporations, aimed to answer that question when it released earlier this year its economic analy...
Resilient Policy Ideas
Hard Facts - October 02, 2019 11:47 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhile work on the next surface reauthorization bill is still in its early stages, many see it as an opportunity to push for policies that would encourage resiliency, changing the way we plan, design, fund, and maintain facilities. The goal is to make transportation, communications, wat...
Congress Weighs Concrete Bills
Hard Facts - September 25, 2019 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsClimate and resiliency are hot topics in Washington and New York this week, with a second hearing on the subject in D.C. tomorrow and world leaders discussing the issue, among others, at United Nations meetings through Friday. Last week’s House congressional panel addressed steps neede...
BREAKING: Congress Hears Testimony on Industry Emissions
Hard Facts - September 18, 2019 20:05 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA House panel in Washington, D.C. today heard from the cement and concrete industry about steps needed to improve industrial emissions. Dr. Jeremy Gregory, Executive Director of the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, testified before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committ...
Inside the Infrastructure Report Card
Hard Facts - September 11, 2019 17:23 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNot a day goes by without someone reminding us that our roads, bridges, and other transportation facilities get a failing grade from America’s civil engineers. You probably know the grade, because it’s quoted in almost every story on the topic. We’ve heard people on this podcast talk a...
Concrete Keeps Its Cool!
Hard Facts - September 04, 2019 14:29 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA recent guest column published in Time Magazine missed the mark in its criticisms of concrete as a building material. While concrete is known for its ability to reflect heat, the author, who also happened to be promoting a book, claimed otherwise. The journalist also expressed surprise...
Ready to Mix it Up!
Hard Facts - August 28, 2019 14:48 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWith Congress still away on summer vacation, we’re taking stock of the people who make up the cement and concrete industry. A few months ago we profiled several members of the North American Concrete Alliance. But we didn’t get to all of them before the legislative stove got hot. So we...
It’s all about the Benjamins!
Hard Facts - August 21, 2019 22:19 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe excitement over Senate EPW committee passage of a bill addressing surface transportation needs remains, but the reality is the unanimous vote to move the plan before the August break is only one step in a very long process, with the Finance Committee now tasked with the tough job of...
States: Senators Pass 1st Test
Hard Facts - August 14, 2019 04:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsStates plan, design, build, and help fund the nation’s infrastructure. So how are they feeling about the Senate’s first attempt at a six-year reauthorization plan? We posed that question to this week’s guest, Carlos Braceras, President of the American Association of State Highway and T...
We Have a Surface Bill!
Hard Facts - August 07, 2019 15:45 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt’s been a little more than a week since the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee delivered on a promise to unveil and pass America’s first look at the next national surface transportation reauthorization bill. The bill, America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 20...
Weather: There’s an Impact!
Hard Facts - July 31, 2019 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWeather is always a consideration when engineers design, and contractors build, our nation’s roads and bridges. But it’s becoming a bigger issue as the climate we’ve known forever has begun to change and grow stronger with each storm event. Our guest is no stranger to the impacts of we...
Building For Stormy Weather
Hard Facts - July 24, 2019 15:14 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWeather is getting stronger. Damage from storms is greater. The costs to repair and rebuild are going higher. So how are we doing when it comes to changing the way we design and build infrastructure? We posed those questions to this week’s guest, Dr. David Dzombak, a professional engin...
Road Work Matters
Hard Facts - July 17, 2019 08:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe looming presidential and congressional election cycle is often used as an excuse for inaction on a surface transportation spending bill, with some politicos predicting it’s almost too late to get anything done before the 2020 vote. That may be true, but one advocate says elected of...
An Ounce of Prevention
Hard Facts - July 10, 2019 17:41 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEveryone agrees that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” But it took an Act of Congress last fall to encourage new thinking about spending on disaster mitigation. Pamela Williams, Executive Director of the Build Strong Coalition, first helped write the Disaster Recovery ...
Giving Trump, Clinton Credit
Hard Facts - July 03, 2019 17:57 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsTransportation financing made a splash during the 2016 Presidential campaign thanks to candidates Trump and Clinton. Since then, the topic has gained more prominence. Even though a deal has not been reached, Dave Bauer, President and CEO of the American Road and Transportation Builders ...
Extension Inevitable
Hard Facts - June 26, 2019 14:27 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWith another presidential race gearing up, transportation reporters are now saying that a surface reauthorization extension is all one can hope for out of Congress next year. Frustration in Washington runs high as both sides have failed to find a pragmatic funding mechanism to fix Ameri...
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