Dive summary:

Dive summary:

• Using two asphalt pavers side by side not only puts down more material in the same time, but Shelly & Sands, Inc. found that it saved on post-paving time because a hot-to-hot seam did not require the same core testing that would be needed if the same pavement were laid in two passes.
• The job the company had been given was a new 150-foot-wide, 10,000-foot-long runway at the Port Columbus airport in Shelly & Sands' home town of Columbus, Ohio.
• Using passes that put down 24 to 27 feet at a time, the echelon technique was used for two 2.5-inch passes that achieved the required smoothness.

From the article:

“It’s a lot of asphalt,” [superintendent Ed] Rouan says. “Base totaled 186,300 tons, surface mix 123,300 tons and shoulders 46,600 tons — a total of 356,200 tons of asphalt mix.” ...