How to Pave a Running Track
Schlouch Incorporated says slow and steady wins the race when it comes to paving running tracks with tight tolerances. By Sarah Redohl
Glen Powell, Schlouch’s paving department coordinator and project manager, estimates the company has paved around 60 running tracks, including this one at Muhlenberg College, since it began going after that type of work 20 years ago.
Schlouch Incorporated is a heavy civil site work contractor in Blandon, Pennsylvania. Although the company’s services range from excavation, utility installation, drilling and blasting, to design build services, concrete work and asphalt paving, Schlouch isn’t too big to benefit from offering niche asphalt paving services. The company is known for its quality work paving running tracks for high schools and colleges throughout eastern Pennsylvania. Although the area in which Schlouch performs running tracks is fairly consistent with the region in which they perform asphalt paving— which accounts for roughly one-fifth of the company’s annual sales— the company will sometimes travel outside their usual area of operation to pave sport surfaces.
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Glen Powell, Schlouch’s paving department coordinator and project manager, estimates the company has paved around 60 running tracks, as well as around 100 sport courts, since it began going after that type of work 20 years ago.
Schlouch Inc. was founded in 1983 by Barry and Deborah Schlouch, who own the company to this day. Today, the company employs 285 people.
John Reinhart, an estimator and project manager for Schlouch, brought the idea of doing sport courts and tracks with him when he
