April 4, 2022

Our 2022 UAPA Scholarship Winners are Kevin Bell, Gerald Street and Abdullah Al Mamun. Congratulations!

To reach SR-248, exit US-40 and travel west into Park City. SR-248 passes through beautiful Park City, Utah, and is one of the main access points to the city’s world-renowned ski resorts. You can see many ski runs from the road.

This project called for 10 miles of I-80 SMA overlay and an experimental single 6-inch lift of HMHMA mixed design for the Wendover port of entry. In all, the team placed 41,836 tons. They rotomilled the freeway in both directions to a depth of 1.5 inches and paved back a 1.5-inch depth of SMA with a PG-70-28 binder. That accounted for 41,459 tons. The team also relined existing culverts and installed new end sections. Upon completion, the road was shouldered, and new delineators and rumble strips were placed.

This project included a lane level and overlay on the cracked surface of SR-153 between MP 3.04 and MP 19.2. The route runs along Beaver Canyon and the Beaver River. High-quality work was required because the hot plant was an hour away, and has tight curves, varied widths, steep grades, and multiple river crossings. Due to the narrow 25-foot average road width, this project also included one-foot shoulder widening on shoulders where possible.

This project involved removing and replacing the existing curb and gutter, sidewalk, waterways, and pedestrian access ramps. The project team also removed the entire existing roadway asphalt, cement treated the existing road base, graded and compacted the cement-treated road base, and installed 4.5-inches of new roadway asphalt.

The UDOT I-15 Pages Lane to 2600 South project was a challenging night project in one of the busiest sections of I-15 in Utah. Located in Davis County between Centerville and North Salt Lake, this five-lane, six-ramp and three-mile section of I-15 has an HOV lane and hundreds of thousands of daily commuters.

Mineral extraction in the Uinta Basin means heavy loads traveling many county roadways. These roads typically experience heavy wear because they were not designed for the loads they experience.

US Route 89 is one of the West’s most scenic highways. It reaches from Mexico to Canada and is known as the “National Park Highway.” With over 1,600 miles of a mostly two-lane paved highway, US 89 passes through five states, many cities and towns, and it is the gateway to seven national parks and 14 national monuments.

SR-198 was a roadway in need of safety upgrades and pavement preservation. Staker Parson Materials & Construction and UDOT Region 3 teams successfully replaced all 48 pedestrian access ramps, added a dedicated bike lane, and provided a new asphalt surface using hot-mix asphalt, stone-matrix asphalt, and a micro-surface that will last years to come.

This project was a 2.5-mile mill and fill job completed during the night. Scope of work called for a 3-inch deep rotomill, and a 1.5-inch deep pave back of PG 64-34 HMA using a spray paver. Then, the spray paver did a 1.5-inch-deep overlay of a PG 70-28 SMA. This project was one of the first jobs where Staker Parson Materials & Construction and UDOT used a spray paver.