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07/07/2021

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05/21/2021

Reduces maintenance on unpaved surfaces by 75%

01/30/2021

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ENVIRORAIL CHANGES FUTURE OF RAILROAD MAINTENANCE WITH GREENER, SUSTAINABLE Mechanical Concrete®

MORGANTOWN, W.VA. (January 18, 2021) - In late November, EnviroRail, a railroad service contractor located in Omaha, NE, made the first step in changing the future of railroad-maintenance construction by licensing Mechanical Concrete®.

Mechanical Concrete®’s patented, innovative process takes a cylinder made from the tread portion of used, waste auto/truck tires and fills the cylinder with same-size gravel. This reuse of the tires creates a solid, sustainable and greener way to make foundations, road bases and repairs. This new time-saving process is fueled by EnviroRail’s nationally exclusive contract for Mechanical Concrete® to reuse waste semi-truck tires. Mechanical Concrete®’s patent allows the use of cylinders to create roads that aren’t as costly to maintain and won’t break down as quickly as most previously constructed roads do.

Samuel G. Bonasso, P.E., the inventor of Mechanical Concrete®, describes the simplicity of the process, “If you take a cylinder and fill it up with stone, it will harden up instantly, and that’s what happens with Mechanical Concrete.”

EnviroRail will use Mechanical Concrete®’s patented technology for track maintenance to support its major railroad customers across the United States. This partnership of experience and innovation is sure to be a game-changer for sustainable, green construction. Mechanical Concrete® boasts a system that is at least three times stronger than typical crushed stone road construction, resulting in roughly 75 percent less maintenance.

Jason Luce from EnviroRail said, “Traditionally, as part of the civil engineering industry, railroads are at an “only-construct-or-repair-if-needed-state” during the winter months. Our goal is to have a railroad test the product during the first couple of months this year, and as soon as the weather turns for the better, we will be at a launch point with Mechanical Concrete®”. This partnership promises to be the beginning of a new affordable, sustainable and greener chapter in railroad maintenance. To learn more about Mechanical Concrete®, please visit http://www.mechanicalconcrete.com/ and learn about EnviroRail at https://www.envirorail.net/

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01/30/2021

MEDIA RELEASE

REAGCO MEDIA CONTACT
Samuel G. Bonasso
(703) 975-3450 | [email protected]​​ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


ENVIRORAIL CHANGES FUTURE OF RAILROAD MAINTENANCE WITH GREENER, SUSTAINABLE Mechanical Concrete®

MORGANTOWN, W.VA. (January 18, 2021) - In late November, EnviroRail, a railroad service contractor located in Omaha, NE, made the first step in changing the future of railroad-maintenance construction by licensing Mechanical Concrete®.

Mechanical Concrete®’s patented, innovative process takes a cylinder made from the tread portion of used, waste auto/truck tires and fills the cylinder with same-size gravel. This reuse of the tires creates a solid, sustainable and greener way to make foundations, road bases and repairs. This new time-saving process is fueled by EnviroRail’s nationally exclusive contract for Mechanical Concrete® to reuse waste semi-truck tires. Mechanical Concrete®’s patent allows the use of cylinders to create roads that aren’t as costly to maintain and won’t break down as quickly as most previously constructed roads

Samuel G. Bonasso, P.E., the inventor of Mechanical Concrete®, describes the simplicity of the process, “If you take a cylinder and fill it up with stone, it will harden up instantly, and that’s what happens with Mechanical Concrete.”

EnviroRail will use Mechanical Concrete®’s patented technology for track maintenance to support its major railroad customers across the United States. This partnership of experience and innovation is sure to be a game-changer for sustainable, green construction. Mechanical Concrete® boasts a system that is at least three times stronger than typical crushed stone road construction, resulting in roughly 75 percent less maintenance.

Jason Luce from EnviroRail said, “Traditionally, as part of the civil engineering industry, railroads are at an “only-construct-or-repair-if-needed-state” during the winter months. Our goal is to have a railroad test the product during the first couple of months this year, and as soon as the weather turns for the better, we will be at a launch point with Mechanical Concrete®”. This partnership promises to be the beginning of a new affordable, sustainable and greener chapter in railroad maintenance. To learn more about Mechanical Concrete®, please visit http://www.mechanicalconcrete.com/ and learn about EnviroRail at https://www.envirorail.net/

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Envirorail is a nationwide services contractor serving the railroad industry. These services include: civil construction, right of way land clearing, track construction, track maintenance, material distribution/inventory management, load adjustment/transfer, and emergency response.

11/01/2020

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04/15/2019

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11/15/2018

REDUCES unpaved road maintenance 75%

It began in September 2006 when Chuck Richards was the WV Division of Highways Doddridge County Maintenance Superintendent, he and his crew rebuilt a section of rural Morgan’s Run Road using Mechanical Concrete®. That part of Morgan’s Run Road would flood 3 or 4 times a year and would need complete reconstruction. For over 12 years now, Mechanical Concrete® has been reducing maintenance on unpaved roads by 75% or more because it resists water damage. Today it is doing the same thing on public and private rural roads, drive ways and industrial haul roads in Texas, Arizona, California, Ohio and Monongalia County, WV.

HOW DOES IT DO IT?

You might ask, “Why does Mechanical Concrete® work so well in this application?” The answer is simply that it doesn’t lose its strength when it gets wet. It retains its strength because it depends on a strong cylinder to hold the ungraded crushed stone together used to construct the road.

Regular construction of unpaved roads depends on the use of compacted, graded stone to achieve its strength. In layman’s terms—this means that very fine particles of stone are mixed with larger pieces of stone and a little water is added and they are compacted together into a relatively solid stone matrix using a heavy roller. Once this compacting is accomplished and the road is dried out; it can support a fully loaded truck tire or over 100 pounds per square inch of external - pressure. This works just fine until the rainy season arrives or the winter freeze-thaw cycles being. Then what happens is the rain water begins to wash away the very fine particles of stone and leaving the other larger particles with no solid lateral support and the solid stone matrix gets holes in it. Then, as soon as a vehicle passes over the road it begins to sink. As more traffic uses this portion of the road, it becomes a pothole or a rut or the road edge collapses.

Mechanical Concrete® can reduce your unpaved road maintenance budget 75%.

Visit www.mechanicalconcrete.com and www.pothole-terminator.com. Contact us at [email protected] (703) 975 3450 to lean more.

06/05/2018

WVU civil engineering professor promotes pothole termination
MetroNews Staff

By in News

June 01, 2018 at 7:08AM

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Drivers could see the end of potholes with the implementation of “The Pothole Terminator.”

“Everybody has a lot of potholes it’s a big problem all over the country,” said Civil Engineer Sam Bonasso Thursday on WAJR’s Morgantown AM. “It’s caused by water and that’s the problem.

Bonasso, an adjunct civil engineering professor at West Virginia University, has collaborated with WVU civil engineering students to research the causes of potholes and to offer a hopefully permanent solution — The Pothole Terminator, an American Society of Civil Engineering award-winning technology.

Bonasso said when pavement gets wet, the compacted material loses its strength and causes the roads to slip away or create holes known as potholes and sinkholes.

Bonasso’s invention aims to eliminate this problem with “mechanical concrete,” a cylinder filled with limestone that solidifies when poured into the hole.

“When that gets wet it doesn’t lose its strength,” he said. “See, that’s the point about it, it stays there.”

According to Bonasso, 300 million tires are sent to landfills every year in the U.S. — part of a global number of 1.4 billion tires.

The Pothole Terminator recycles waste tires and uses them as the cylinders, because although waste tires might not hold air, they are still strong enough to use in construction.

“It’s a sustainable initiative,” he said. “That’s the idea.”

In a recent study by AAA, drivers in the United States spend over $3 billion annually on car repairs due to potholes.

The Pothole Terminator costs $12 per square foot to use.

Bonasso said this method has been used on University Town Center Drive in Morgantown that previously required repairs semi-annually. It has now been more than a year since this technique has been in place and the road is still in-tact, needing no repairs.

“Any pothole that has to be repaired more than twice a year should use this technique to solve it,” Bonasso said. “It’ll eliminate that repair.”

The Pothole Terminator has also been used on roads in Maidsville, lasting for more than 10 years.

“After you’ve fixed it twice then you can afford to do this,” Bonasso said. “Spend twelve dollars a square foot and get it fixed properly.”

According to Bonasso, The Pothole Terminator is something that can be used globally to eliminate potholes and reduce waste. Currently, engineers in South Africa are working to get the technique in place there.

The research project done by the WVU civil engineering students was sent to the Department of Highways for review.

“They’ve got it now,” Bonasso said. “They’ve got a research project that shows they can hang their hat on it and I think they’ll be using it soon.”

For more information on The Pothole Terminator, visit pothole-terminator.com

Pothole Terminator is a sustainable, green, cost-effective long-term solution to potholes providing a public road solution to engineers and municipalities.

12/06/2017

Mechanical Concrete Pothole Terminator was presented to national scrap tire industry leaders and state regulators in October. Read more about the event.

Mechanical Concrete® Pothole Terminator, an ASCE Grand Challenge award-winning solution to potholes, was presented at the Scrap to Profit Conference (STP).

10/23/2017

This is an important reason why highways are not truly sustainable.

Pothole Terminator is a sustainable, green, cost-effective long-term solution to potholes providing a public road solution to engineers and municipalities.