Why a highway engineering firm from Texas, USA is using roadbounce..

Meet team 'Nortex'

.. Let me explain what we do. Our company drills through concrete and injects a dense polyurethane foam below concrete highways and roadways to replace eroded base materials and lift panel/s back to grade. The concrete can be expanded too much from the heat (this happens pretty much all summer), rebar being bound up, small debris being caught in the joint, etc…

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Riding Quality matters

​Even though on all those projects where we replaced the eroded base and stabilized the panels, if the panels wouldn’t lift and the ride quality didn’t greatly improve the agency would wonder what they actually paid for. About a year and a half ago we incorporated a new process of PolyGrinding and it has really taken off. The cost of this process is about 1/4 of full depth repair cost (panel replacement) and about ½ the cost of another process called Dowel Bar Retrofit. PolyGrinding significantly improves ride quality of the faulted concrete pavement.

RoadBounce as a data acquisition tool

I would intend to use your app to show what the roadways ride quality is before our process is done, and then another test after we have PolyGrinded the roadway. I think the IRI testing feature will help me show a poor ride number before and a good ride number after.  believe I could also use it to provide a better roadway canvas to bring attention to problem areas that a particular city or DOT may not be aware of with the intent that our process would be the solution.

RoadBounce 'Before' report

RoadBounce 'After' report

Nortex Concrete Lift and Stabilization is a licensed contractor specialized in lifting and stabilizing concrete panels using highly specialized polyurethane foam systems. Nortex has a combined working experience of 25 years using polyurethane foam systems.