Niagara Falls Bridge Toll Plaza, Access Road Turns to Concrete with NRMCA's Help

Last year, NRMCA Senior Director, Local Paving, Doug O’Neill and Greg Novitzki, executive director of the New York Concrete Promotion Council, assisted on a project uncovered by one of NRMCA’s promotion partners, Frank Surianello, president of Surianello General Concrete Contractors, Inc., in Buffalo, NY. Surianello has been chairman of the New York State chapter of the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) since 2008 and was named national chairman of ACPA in 2013, its 50th Anniversary year. The Niagara Falls Bridge Commission was proposing a toll plaza and access road, some of which was designed in asphalt. The promotion team submitted the project to NRMCA's Design Assistance Program (DAP) and, as a result, the project reportedly used 3,500 cubic yards of concrete. Although Surianello did not get the job, the fact that the design team took NRMCA’s recommendations from our DAP was a considerable success.

"Frank's efforts to flip this project to 100% concrete were the reason it went as it did and despite his company not getting the work, his promotional outlook recognizes that as long as it went concrete, it was a success." said O’Neill, who added that the design team also accepted the detailed jointing plan proposed by NRMCA’s Amanda Hult.