PIERRE AIRPORT, PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA

   

YEAR COMPLETED - PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:  2004

YEAR COMPLETED - CONSTRUCTION:  2004

PROJECT OWNER: CITY OF PIERRE

The project consists of the reconstruction and concrete asphalt resurfacing of the main runway and immediate taxiways.  The scope of the project involves the placement of 34, 700 tons of P-401 concrete asphalt and over 138, 00 tons of crushed aggregate basecourse.  Morris, Inc., subcontracted with AS&A to perform the contractor quality control (materials testing) for this project.  The quality control program included compaction testing of the basecourse cushion, cold feed and hot mix asphalt testing and the field extraction of asphaltic pavement cores.  Morris Inc., also requested AS&A to perform a P-401 asphalt mix design for this project.  

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