Pavement
In 1985, Dr. Richard Santi approached Leonard Velasquez of SLV Quality Concrete, an American Society of Concrete Contractors member, about replacing his asphalt parking lot with concrete pavement. Dr. Santi wanted to stop spending money on maintaining the old asphalt lot at his office. After discovering that the subgrade beneath the asphalt was very poor, Mr. Velasquez (shown here at Dr. Santi's office) suggested a new approach – overlay the asphalt with 5" of concrete, reports NRMCA Vice President, Local Paving, Don Clem. With Dr. Santi’s approval, SLV placed the first known concrete overlay over asphalt in Colorado. Neither man dreamed that the parking lot would still be in service, welcoming patients more than 30 years later - and with the added benefit that very little was spent on maintaining the parking lot during that time.For more information, contact Don Clem at dclem@nrmca.org.
Milis Flatwork in Kaukauna, WI, is a relatively young concrete construction company run by an engineer/contractor named Dylan Milis who started it by focusing mainly on agricultural construction until an equipment salesman from an NRMCA member company told him about NRMCA’s popular Parking Lot Boot Camp. After convincing NRMCA's Jon Hansen and Phil Kresge that his company, which consisted of three people at the time, was worth investing their time to conduct a Parking Lot Boot Camp, the rest is a success story you will want to know more about.
Next Tuesday, October 3 from 11 a.m. to noon, plan to attend the NRMCA and ASCC Contractor Partnering - A Success Model for Moving Your Paving Market during the PaveAhead session at ConcreteWorks. Hear from Dylan the equipment salesman and NRMCA staff on how to put together winning partnership to capture concrete parking lots, both new and overlays, in your market. This is one session you won’t want to miss.
For more information, contact Jon Hansen at jhansen@nrmca.org or Phil Kresge at pkresge@nrmca.org.
