President Celebrates Aero Aggregates Contribution to Emergency Highway Repair
Aero Aggregates CEO Archie Filshill had the honour of meeting President Joe Biden at an update on the reconstruction of a major US highway. Pennsylvania workers transported 2,000 tons of lightweight glass nuggets to help quickly rebuild a collapsed section of Interstate-95 in Philadelphia with crews working 24 hours a day in order to swiftly reopen this critical commercial artery.
“We’re using materials made of recycled glass, manufactured here in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. And the design of the project is incredibly innovative in order to get this work done in record time,” said President Biden.
Investigators continue to look into why a gasoline transporter lost control on an off-ramp and rolled on its side, igniting a fire that caused the collapse of the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 and severely damaging the southbound lanes. Instead of rebuilding the overpass right away, crews used the recycled glass to fill in the collapsed area (100ft long and 150ft wide) bringing it up to surface level and then paving it over so that three lanes of traffic can reopen each way.
Dr Filshill estimated that it took about 100 box-truck loads to haul about 10,000 cubic yards of the glass nuggets required for the I-95 project. The total weight was around 2,000 tons, a fraction of the weight of regular sand or dirt, meaning that it will take many fewer journeys to bring it to the site.
