MITCHELL AIRPORT, MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA

   

YEAR COMPLETED - PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:  2006

YEAR COMPLETED - CONSTRUCTION:  2006

PROJECT OWNER: CITY OF MITCHELL

AS&A contracted with the city of Mitchell and subcontracted with Commercial Asphalt to provide the QA asphalt testing for the City of Mitchell and the QC asphalt testing for Commercial Asphalt.  The project consists of providing the clients with a P401 mix design and asphalt test results for over 5,100 tons of asphalt. 

The materials lab of AS&A is accredited by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Accreditation Program) to perform quality control testing and implement quality control programs.  AS&A’s lab personnel are accredited to perform hot mix asphalt testing, materials aggregate testing, asphaltic hot mix testing and concrete testing for State and Federal projects. 

AS&A owns and operates a fleet of mobile asphalt testing labs that conducts QC asphalt testing on the behalf of contractors for airport and SDDOT projects throughout the State.  Mobile labs are equipped with state of the art electronic instrumentation that delivers precision results of both cold feed and hot mix samples.  All of the testing equipment is calibrated at intervals and to tolerances as specified by AASHTO’s Accreditation Program for State and Federal projects.  Managers operating the mobile labs have passed rigorous training programs sponsored in cooperation with the Asphalt Institute and the SDDOT that prepares them to perform the tests proficiently and to assure the reliability of the results.  The mobile labs perform the following cold and asphaltic hot mix tests: gradations, Atterberg Limits (LL and PL), lightweight pieces, fractured faces, Rice Theoretical Density, Marshall Density and density determination of cores extracted from the asphaltic pavement.  Also, AS&A offers gyratory compactions results for superpave projects. 

AS&A Laboratory Services are certified by the Asphalt Institute to perform mix designs and the lab is regularly inspected and certified by the AASHTO Accreditation Program.  

Laboratory Accreditation:

            AASHTO Accreditation Program (AAP)

            Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory (CCRL)

            AASHTO Materials Reference Laboratory (AMRL)

            National Institute for Standards and Technology

            US Army Corps of Engineering

            FAA Certified