8,000: Approximate number of geofoam blocks to be used in Salmon Creek Interchange Project. As the forklift lurched toward a nearby truck, its prongs began to slide between two foam blocks loaded on ...

ACH Foam Technologies supplied an estimated 2.1 million cubic feet of EPS Geofoam to the second largest Geofoam project in the US: the West Valley TRAX line. What's the future of the Preakness Stakes?

To the untrained eye, those big white blocks lined up along Seventh Street North at the Interchange transit hub project site in downtown Minneapolis may look like Styrofoam packing for a humongous ...

Reinforcing a roadway levee as part of a wetlands restoration project in northern California. When Maggiora & Ghilotti, Inc. was hired to work on a wetlands levee reinforcement project 40 miles inland ...

DENVER, CO--(Marketwired - Apr 1, 2014) - Slope stability was a major sticking point for engineers at Augustana College. The new Center for Student Life was added to the existing library building set ...

Crushed rock, soil, sand, and other earthen fills have largely dominated the construction industry for ages. The familiar, ubiquitous, and inexpensive nature of these materials has made them the ...

DENVER, CO--(Marketwired - Jun 16, 2015) - ACH Foam Technologies' Foam-Control® EPS Geofoam is best known for its use on roadway and embankment projects. An engineered lightweight material with high ...

Lightweight and stiff as a board, a plastic foam material is being used to protect Utah’s natural gas pipelines from rupturing during earthquakes. Lightweight and stiff as a board, a plastic foam ...

In the second-largest application ever of its kind, hundreds of truckloads of polystyrene block are helping expedite an expansion of Salt Lake City’s Transit Express (TRAX) light-rail system. The ...

SEATTLE -- Giant blocks of foam are being used in construction projects across the Puget Sound, and you might be driving over them everyday without even knowing it. The blocks recently caught the eye ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. (CBS4) - Crews have finished installing 6,000 geofoam blocks on eastbound U.S. 36. Repairs to the road are expected to be finished by early October. The Colorado Department of ...