Arkansas Asphalt Pavement Association elects new leaders

Terry Sossong with the Rogers Group of Conway, Ark., has been elected chairman of the board of the Arkansas Asphalt Pavement Association. Benson Cashion, of The Cashion Company in Little Rock, has been elected Secretary-Treasurer. 

Directors are Jim Bennett with Jet Asphalt and Rock in El Dorado, Lee DuChanois with APAC, McClinton-Anchor in Fayetteville, Mark Lamberth with Atlas Asphalt in Batesville, Vic Braddy with C.F. Stocks in Fort Smith, Tommy Cox with Lion Oil in El Dorado and Dan Hogan with RazorRock Materials in West Memphis. John T. Suskie serves as executive director.  The elections were held at the association’s annual convention in Hot Springs.

Fayetteville engineering firm awarded for Springdale lift station

The Fayetteville engineering firm of McGoodwin Williams & Yates Inc. has been honored by the American Council of Engineering Companies of Arkansas for the firm’s design of the Benton Farm Lift Station completed in November 2005 for the City of Springdale, Ark.

The firm received an Engineering Excellence Honor Award, an annual award recognizing the “Fostering of Excellence in Engineering Design in Arkansas.” The award process measures both innovative design and sustainable engineering. The lift station resembles a dairy barn, complete with red walls, metal roof and cupola with a rooster weather vane.

“Our concept was to create a lift station that would blend as seamlessly as possible with the surrounding agricultural properties, while also providing a cost-efficient municipal wastewater service to an area of projected high growth,” said Brad Hammond, president of McGoodwin Williams & Yates. “By taking into consideration the aesthetics of the highly visible lift station, this project sets an example of how such structures can be completed economically and still address the desires of the community,” Hammond said.

The $2 million Benton Farm Lift Station was designed to serve the northwest portion of Springdale and much of the city of Lowell for more than 20 years, as well as provide aesthetic benefits that would complement property values of the area.