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DRIVEN TO BE THE BEST
Maritimes Operations
Cumberland Paving – Halifax Division
Cumberland Paving’s Halifax Division has been selected by American Bridge Company to be part of their team for the Halifax Harbour
Bridge suspended spans deck replacement. Cumberland will be contracted to surface treat (leveling course) all steel deck
panels prior to being lifted into place. Once all spans are replaced, Cumberland will place an epoxy asphalt wearing course over
the entire surface. Leveling course placement will start in the Spring of 2015 as the steel deck panels are constructed and the final
wearing course will be completed in the summer of 2017. The Halifax Harbour Bridge will be only the second bridge in Canada
where epoxy asphalt has been used to date. This technology has been used on several bridge projects in China and in the United
States, most notably the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
What is Epoxy Asphalt?
Epoxy Asphalt Concrete is a polymer concrete
that is composed of a slow curing,
epoxy asphalt binder mixed together
with standard asphalt concrete aggregates
in the pug mill of an asphalt plant.
The epoxy asphalt binder is a two-phase
chemical system in which the continuous
phase is a thermoset epoxy and the discontinuous
phase is a mixture of specialized
asphalts.
Cumberland Paving – Springhill Division
Cumberland Paving’s Springhill division spent most of its year
between Cumberland County, NS and Moncton, NB. The paving
crew combined forces with MacDonald Paving’s highway crew
to tackle work on both sides of the border. Crushing forces were
also combined with Calhoun Quarry crushing personnel to tackle
the crushing needs of both companies. Combining these crews
gave our group added efficiencies and savings which would not
have been achievable this season without pooling our forces.
Relations which were developed in Ontario through the purchase
of road maintenance salt, carried into Atlantic Canada. The relationship
with Sifto Salt Canada, a supplier of Miller Maintenance’s
in Ontario, connected Cumberland Paving’s operation with them
in Nova Scotia. Sifto Salt contracted Cumberland Paving for all
site rehabilitation and paving during the 2014 season. The picture
below shows the paving operation at the Sifto salt site.
Maritimes Operations
Jimmy Palmer’s pipe crew as well worked on both sides of the border and assisted on Cumberland Halifax projects to fulfill all the
pipe and excavation needs in Atlantic Canada. The mobility of all Cumberland Springhill’s crew to assist on projects in New Brunswick
and in Halifax showed the unity of the Miller Group working together to be “ONLY THE BEST”.
Much appreciation is given to the employees and crews from Industrial Cold Milling for stepping up and giving their time in the
fall of the year to get the work done. Projects would have been difficult to complete without their assistance and once again
shows the diversity of the Miller Group.
MacDonald Paving and Construction - Moncton NB
The 2014 construction season saw Cumberland Paving’s
entrance into the concrete curb market. Equipment was
purchased and new employees were hired to help what
turned out to be a very busy season for the concrete crew
lead by new foreman Cory MacAskill and Superintendent
Heath Baker.
Ellis Carroll and Harold Smith kept the paving forces busy
into the late fall completing several Halifax Regional
Municipality projects along with some late tendered
Nova Scotia Government Highway Projects. Robert and
Richard spent many mornings in October and November
praying for dry days (above 7 o C) to allow work to get
done before the snow flew.
Cabela’s sets up shop in Moncton, NB and MacDonald Paving and
Construction paves the way. Doesn’t sound like a big thing for
some, however, considering this is the first Cabela’s to open east
of Ontario, it was nice to see the brown and yellow fleet on site for
the final touches before opening.
In a year where government spending remained low, MacDonald
Paving continued their focus on the Municipal and Commercial
markets to fill in the gaps from the province. Other large commercial
projects included the new Moncton High School, Princess Auto
located directly beside the Cabela’s in the newly built Mapleton
Park, along with several other projects of commercial work for the
season. This work coupled with Municipal contracts with the three
major municipalities in the area, kept our paving crew steadily
chasing Jean’s grader, AJ LeBlanc’s milling prep and Joe Gallent’s adjustments crew to finish out a successful season.
Don’t think the highway crew got off easy. The 2014 highway crew was made up from members of both MacDonald Paving and
Cumberland Paving Springhill employees and they jumped back and forth between NB and NS completing all highway work with
time left to help out on the Commercial work. The crew lead by Mark McKay (MPC) and Phillip Black (CPS) were successful in completing
projects with a high level of quality to the satisfaction of both provincial agencies.
Personnel changes saw Andre Melanson put in the position of Construction Manager, Stephen MacDonald’s Superintendent
duties shifting more to the Municipal and Commercial markets and James Perrin crossing the NB/NS boarder to Assist with the
Highway market. This restructuring, combined with the strong estimating of Grant Carruthers and the administration carried by
Heather Duncan, Krystle MacDonald and Krista Mitton, resulted in a successful 2014 construction season.
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