This panoramic picture shows the scope of work Ruston Paving recently completed at the new Post Exchange (PX) Shopping Center at Fort Belvoir, which is located southwest of Washington, DC. The present PX is being replaced with this new 263,500 square foot shopping center that will serve the more than 7,100 soldiers and their families...
Ruston Paving was contracted by SUNY IT to construct a new parking lot that would serve as an overflow area for the athletic fields and field house. During the subbase placement phase, torrential rains saturated the work site. After discussing and pricing various construction options, it was determined that soil stabilization with Portland cement would...
A new building at Biogen Idec’s manufacturing center for US operations required a new road to connect it to the rest of the facilities. Working for McDonald-York, Ruston Paving placed all new curb & gutter, sidewalks, handicapped ramps, stone base and asphalt pavement. Biogen Idec uses cutting edge science to discover, develop, manufacture and market biological products...
Ruston Paving held some in-house training for grading operators in our New York divisions. The training, which was held at Hanson Aggregates’ Jamesville quarry, was moderated by John Benedict, our director of grading operations. The training focused on the safe and proper operation of the motor grader for achieving desired grades on a project site. Our newer operators did a great...
Ruston Paving’s Syracuse division’s last project of the 2011 season was a parking lot expansion at Widewaters Business Park. This portion of the job was phase 1 of 3. The parking lot needed some additional parking spaces. Our crews excavated the area and relocated the granite curbing. Because all of central New York’s blacktop plants were closed...
Our Durham division crews recently completed site improvements to the Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School. This was the first school in Wake County to be purpose-built as a Magnet High School. Magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. This particular school focuses on its magnet themes of leadership and technology. Some of...
Constellation Wines U.S. has been a leader in the wine industry for more than 65 years. Founded in 1945 in Canandaigua, New York by Marvin Sands, Constellation Wines U.S. represents the U.S. wine and spirits business of Constellation Brands. Today, they are the world’s largest wine business by dollar volume and are the leading premium plus wine...
Now that the new Lake Townsend Dam is nearly complete, Ruston Paving is beginning to install a new stone access road to and across the dam. It has been a three year project to rebuild the dam. The original 44-year old concrete gated spillway is suffering from severe deterioration due to a nasty sort of chemical decomposition that...
Shelco General Contractors hired Ruston Paving to install 23 additional parking stalls as part of their expansion project at Medi Manufacturing in Whitsett, NC. With recent hiring and parking already overflowing, the new parking stalls were a welcomed addition to the site. Medi’s roots date back to the end of the 19th century, when the company...
One of our Durham grading crews is pictured here as it works to reconfigure a parking lot at Timberlyne Shopping Center. Timberlyne Shopping Center was originally built in 1985 and handles an average daily traffic count of 15,000. The entrance to the plaza is being relocated to the middle of the shopping center to allow for a better flow...
