Strategic Purchase Wins the Bids for N.B. West
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When N.B. West Contracting Co., Sullivan, Missouri, won contract 180518-F02 for Interstate 44 May 2018, top management gathered for some strategic planning. They knew additional, large contracts were coming up along the I-44 corridor from the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), and they knew their teams could
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take on those projects with the right mix production capacity. “This was the largest asphalt paving contract that our company had ever received with approximately 140,000 tons,” Steve Jackson, general manager for N.B. West, said. Readers can check out the success of that first I-44 job, with its use of intelligent
compaction/infrared (IC/IR) in the June 2020 issue of AsphaltPro. “We knew that we would have to let Keith Denney of our concrete division complete the pavement repairs, shaping slopes and rock base on the off ramps, before we could start the asphalt paving in the spring of 2019. Larry West, our owner and CEO;
