Greenbelt, Md. — The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) announced today that Kokosing Construction Co. Inc. of Mansfield, Ohio, won a 2023 Quality in Construction Award for excellence in construction of an asphalt pavement. The company is being recognized during the association’s 69th Annual Meeting.
“The asphalt pavement industry is committed to building high-quality projects that deliver superior performance to the traveling public. All contractors’ projects earning a Quality in Construction award are measured against best practices designed to live up to that commitment,” said 2023 NAPA Chair Christian Zimmermann. “Earning the Quality in Construction Award demonstrates that Kokosing Construction has met or exceeded these rigorous standards.”
Kokosing Construction won the award for its work on the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. Eighteen years after the company first resurfaced this 2.2-mile-long road racing course, the owners reached out to Kokosing and requested the company to resurface it again in 2023. The company took just five days to completely mill the track and place a new asphalt wearing surface on it. The project was complicated by limited access points and overhead bridges with limited clearances. Using an asphalt mix that included reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), a sustainable paving practice, Kokosing Construction produced a smooth, high-quality asphalt pavement.
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The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) is the only trade association that exclusively represents the interests of the asphalt producer/contractor on the national level with Congress, government agencies, and other national trade and business organizations. NAPA supports an active research program designed to improve the quality of asphalt pavements and paving techniques used in the construction of roads, streets, highways, parking lots, airports, and environmental and recreational facilities. The association provides technical, educational, and marketing materials and information to its members; supplies product information to users and specifiers of paving materials; and conducts training courses. The association, which counts more than 1,100 companies as members, was founded in 1955.