Jun 29, 2015
Since May, we’ve been reporting on the progress of a trail bridge installation in Phillips Park, Beavercreek, near Dayton, Ohio. First, we gave some project background. Next, we walked step-by-step through the install. In the ...
Scott does Business Development for Creative Composites Group. For over 35 years, he has developed new applications using FRP composites; especially in the infrastructure sector. In 2005, he founded Composite Advantage, which is now part of CCG.
Jun 29, 2015
Since May, we’ve been reporting on the progress of a trail bridge installation in Phillips Park, Beavercreek, near Dayton, Ohio. First, we gave some project background. Next, we walked step-by-step through the install. In the ...
Topics: FiberSPAN, bridges, trail bridges
Jun 15, 2015
Well, the 2015 International Bridge Conference is now just a memory. Check out my pre-conference blog for some background (if you haven't already). I left #IBC15 with many takeaways, and here are my top four.
Jun 4, 2015
Next week, June 7-11, Composite Advantage will be participating in the International Bridge Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. We'll be exhibiting as part of the American Composite Manufacturers Association (ACMA) booth. Within ACMA,...
Topics: bridges, International Bridge Conference, Pittsburgh, American Composite Manufacturers Association
Jun 2, 2015
I just returned from Portland, Oregon, where I attended the 2015 International Trails Symposium. Every two years at this event, the ever-growing parks, trails and recreation crowd shares best practices and attends an exhibition,...
Topics: trail bridges, International Trails Symposium, Dayton
May 12, 2015
If you've been following our blogs on phase one and phase two of the Beavercreek Township trail bridge install, you'll be pleased to know that the work is now complete! Final touches included adding approaches and cleaning up the...
Topics: FiberSPAN, trail bridges
May 8, 2015
Good news! We've completed the installation of the trail bridge in Phillips Park, Beavercreek Township, Ohio. If you missed our last blog introducing the project, click here!
Back to this week. The weather was beautiful here in...
Topics: FiberSPAN, trail bridges, FRP bridge deck
May 4, 2015
What does springtime remind YOU of? Flowers? BBQ? Allergies?
Here at Composite Advantage, spring means...parks and construction!
One of our first projects this spring is a trail bridge in Beavercreek Township's Phillips Park,...
Topics: FiberSPAN, trail bridges, FRP bridge deck
Apr 20, 2015
With the arrival of spring and (finally) the end of heavy snow, I recently traveled to the Boston area on business, venturing north to make a few sales calls and inspect a bridge in northeastern Massachusetts. In the summer of...
Topics: FiberSPAN, FRP bridge deck, Rocks Village
Apr 8, 2015
A few weeks ago, during a few lucky days of warm weather, I visited Chicago, the railroad center of the nation. I was helping to conduct a five-year inspection of the FiberSPAN rail platform we supplied for New Lenox, a...
Topics: FiberSPAN, METRA, Rail Platforms, Chicago
Feb 18, 2015
Earlier this month, I attended the Ohio Parks and Recreation Association (OPRA) conference and trade show. Despite the 10 inches of snow that fell in Sandusky, Ohio, OPRA2015 was a success, with many new exhibitors and attendees....
Topics: FiberSPAN, bridges, recreation, trails, parks