Major road repairs are required in the US State of Michigan following heavy rains and extensive flooding.
July 3, 2017
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Major road repairs are required in the US State of Michigan following heavy rains and extensive flooding. In all the repairs will cost US$90 million. Damage to roads and bridges in Midland County alone will cost U$13 million to repair.
The cost of repairing roads, highways and bridges damaged by the recent flooding in Queensland is expected to cost around US$2.47 billion (A$2.5 billion).
Ian Fraser, Tensar International’s director of application technology, looks at the latest lessons learned from the flood-hit Workington Bridge project in Cumbria, North West England. Rarely has a disaster like the Cumbrian floods demonstrated with more clarity the benefit of designing working platforms and bridge abutments to tested performance standards, as opposed to slavishly following accepted, but often much less efficient, design norms.
Roads all over the US state of Michigan are in desperate need of repair, but cities do not always have enough money to fix them. However, the city of Jackson could help pave the way toward a solution. An project on a small street in Jackson could help communities across the state in the future. Lydia Street connects Wildwood with Michigan Avenue near downtown Jackson and has been repaired using a new product from supplier 3M. The special concrete features a mixture that is better able to withstand the freez
