California, Maryland, Montana, New York, North Dakota and Utah have been named recipients of 2007 Highways for LIFE incentive funding.

That brings to 15 the number of states receiving Federal Highway Administration grants to build projects using innovations that will cut construction congestion while enhancing safety, quality and user satisfaction. Earlier, FHWA announced that Arizona, Georgia, Maine, Missouri, Oregon and Virginia would receive 2007 grants. In 2006, Iowa, Minnesota and South Carolina won grants.

I-15 in California has been selected as one of the Corridors of the Future. They will receive $5 million grant to rehabilitate a section of Interstate 15 in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties with a precast concrete pavement panel system

Featured Success Story: Florida

Graves Avenue Prefabricated Bridge Project: Widening of I-4 from four to six lanes the old Graves Avenue Bridge had to go. Officials from the Florida DOT had seen an innovative bridge building technique in use overseas. There, crews used self-propelled modular transporters or s-p-m-ts to lift old bridges out of the way and then replace them with pre-constructed bridge spans in a short amount of time. The Graves Avenue project is the first time s-p-m-ts have been used in the construction of a bridge over an interstate highway in the United States. Watch a video on the Graves Avenue project (.wmv, 14 mb).

Product Demonstration Showcase

• Prefabricated Bridge Elements and Design/Build
  May 1, 2008
  LaGrange, GA