The heat was on – both literally and figuratively – the Bowes Construction crew as they worked to widen Highway 45 in South Dakota last August. Afternoon high temperatures routinely pushed 100° F, and they had just three weeks to reclaim nearly 32 km (20 miles) of road that had a 229 mm (9″) asphalt […]
NEW TECHNOLOGY SPEEDS RUNWAY GRADING A wet summer delayed reconstruction of the airport runway until Jason Bowes decided to use the fastest available machine-control technology to keep on schedule When reconstruction of a Mitchell, SD, municipal airport runway fell behind schedule because of rain in summer 2009, Bowes Construction, Brookings, the grading subcontractor, had two
