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Paving Arts was recently awarded an asphalt restoration project at the Best Buy & Geek Squad service and distribution center in Perth Amboy, NJ.
The facility was experiencing water coming through fairly new asphalt, and our scope was to excavate and install 375 linear of under-drain to address this problem, as well as to perform approximately 30,000 square feet of mill and pave repairs on the same property.
This project was scheduled to go off at the exact same time as the Fort Hamilton project in Brooklyn which made scheduling tight. Starting work day and night, in 2 different states, on 2 different new projects, as well as working on our ongoing jobs at Adams St in Brooklyn, Kmart in West Long Branch NJ, Sears at Woodbridge Center Mall, as well as another Brooklyn job for The Block Institute which is a developmentally disabled learning center located off of Stillwell Avenue. As of right now Paving Arts has over 15 dump trucks per day and on average 30 employees around the clock.
The sinking feeling I mentioned before was on the Best Buy Project. Let me review…The minute the milling machine hit the ground on the overnight last week, It immediately headed for China!!! I mean sinking like your proverbial box of rocks! Below the asphalt, which was half the depth as the plans stated, we encountered several feet of sloppy, wet clay on which this almost new parking lot was constructed, minimal base, no stone, just orange soup!!!
After extricating our machinery and shoveling off the globs of sticky red clay, we re-laid our plans and change order procedures were established and immediately approved. We had to dig approximately 2 feet down to install 12 inches of new 2” bluestone to re stabilize the soil and then install another 12 inches ¾ road stone as a base. Only then could we reliably re-pave the area with 2” of asphalt base and 2” of asphalt top course. And of course this was all phased and schedules as to minimize any disruption of the Best Buy operation .
