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JESSICA LOMBARDO, EDITOR-IN-CHEIF
Luxury Vehicles, High-End Sealcoating, Award-Winning Project SouthTex Asphalt seals and stripes over 1,500,000 square feet of pavement at a high end vehicle processing center, overcoming tight timelines and supply shortages
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n the pavement maintenance business, we often don’t associate ourselves with extravagances, especially when there’s black sealant involved. However, even luxury vehicle centers need their pavement maintained, and it’s up to those of us in the industry to make sure our precision and experience protects these valuable assets, and our reputation. “Any time you’re working around brand new luxury vehicles, there are going to be challenges,” Andy Jackson, owner of SouthTex Asphalt says. “We were ‘lucky’ enough on this project that
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the vehicles were just one of the many obstacles we had to overcome.” While SouthTex has a 25 year relationship maintaining this particular lot in Houston, TX, they have never encountered the challenges they saw on the project this year. Not only did the crew at SouthTex sealcoat and stripe one-third of the 82 acre facility in 35 days, they completed the work despite paint shortages, weather delays and high customer demand, winning them Pavement’s 2022 Seal & Stripe Large Job award. WORKING WITH THE WIND In the Summer of 2021, the facility manager contacted SouthTex to complete the pavement maintenance work that was needed. Jackson and his team advised them to wait to do the work until later in the Fall to take advantage of the more moderate weather conditions. “Texas had experienced a very wet and very hot summer, so we wanted to wait to complete this massive project until later in the year,” Jackson says.
“This would allow the pavement the proper curing temperature and also decrease the chances of weather delays for the intricate work.” To maintain operation of the vehicle processing center, which is a holding area for high-end vehicles before they are transported to their final destination, the SouthTex crew had to complete the work in several different phases. “Fortunately, the amount of vehicles being processed were lower than usual due to the chip shortage,” Jackson says. “We've worked out here before and the facility literally had no room, but they were able to give us basically a fifth of the project at a time. This allowed us to take care of larger sections.” The entire facility will be sealcoated in three separate phases over time. In phase one, which was performed during 2021, the project was broken down into five different sections, each averaging 300,000 square feet. The crews cleaned each section with a Broce Broom Sweeper and a Buffalo
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