Tag: Pavement
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Rethinking Sustainable Pavement Striping, EverLine Coatings
In the pavement maintenance industry, products that market themselves as green, eco-conscious, or sustainable often have the unwarranted reputation of being inferior to their traditional counterparts. On the one hand, it isn’t without precedent. There are examples from early adopters in the field of environmentally conscious products that may have come to market too soon,…
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Attentive.ai Partners With Asphalt Kingdom On AI Pavement Push
Attentive.ai has already been a forward thinking leader of AI-based takeoff software in the construction space, and now they are looking to expand their influence and reach by partnering with Asphalt Kingdom. The two companies are looking to transform the way that contractors and other pavement pros look at new technology like AI (artificial intelligence). …
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![[SERIES] Pavement Maintenance International, Part 3: Building A Female Workforce](https://craftyourcastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SERIES-Pavement-Maintenance-International-Part-3-Building-A-Female-Workforce.png)
[SERIES] Pavement Maintenance International, Part 3: Building A Female Workforce
Hopefully the previous parts to this triology have been helpful. In some ways, it’s interesting that so much of what we deal with in the good ol’ USA is being experienced around the world. This I can confirm as I’ve worked with owners and leaders throughout Europe, parts of South America, Indonesia, and Australia. My…
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[SERIES] Pavement Maintenance International, Part 3: Building A Female Workforce
Hopefully the previous parts to this triology have been helpful. In some ways, it’s interesting that so much of what we deal with in the good ol’ USA is being experienced around the world. This I can confirm as I’ve worked with owners and leaders throughout Europe, parts of South America, Indonesia, and Australia. My…
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![[SERIES] International Pavement Maintenance Part 2: Controlling Your Costs](https://craftyourcastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SERIES-International-Pavement-Maintenance-Part-2-Controlling-Your-Costs.png)
[SERIES] International Pavement Maintenance Part 2: Controlling Your Costs
Meeting with more than one hundred contractors personally, it was quite refreshing to hear of their willingness and desire to tight their “money belts” when it came to running their business. In fact, as more than one contractor told me, “Hey Mate, when you live on an island, you tend to be a bit more…
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3 Pavement Industry Keys: Be Resourceful, Serve Your Clients, Protect Your Business
In our asphalt businesses we are in the service business, meaning we provide a service to others. Maybe we provide our service to residential customers, maybe commercial or municipal. Regardless, we are the problem solvers. If your parking lot needs lines, we can do it. If you have a sink hole, we can fix it. …
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High Performance Pavement: A Process Driven Business Paradigm
While at the 2024 IGNITE Construction Summit, which took place at the Renaissance Esmerelda Resort in Palm Springs, CA, I sat at a breakfast table with Andre Neidich, CEO and Co-Founder of Pothole Heroes, and his dynamic COO, Zach Young. Far from our original introduction, we first met at the 2022 IGNITE in Clearwater, FL,…
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Pavement Maintenance & Reconstruction’s 2025 Top Contractor Award: Submissions Open
Pavement Maintenance & Reconstruction’s Top Contractor award spotlights the annual top contractors in the pavement, sealcoating, striping, and pavement repair markets. This survey of paving and pavement maintenance contractors allows us to develop an objective and verifiable listing in each of these five industry segments. To do that, we need to know: • Gross Sales…