To the untrained eye, those big white blocks lined up along Seventh Street North at the Interchange transit hub project site in downtown Minneapolis may look like Styrofoam packing for a humongous ...

A. What you saw are geofoam blocks, used for fill. When a lot of digging around is done, Caltrans contractors often will compact the soil and then stick a dirt pile atop the spot for six months or so ...

In the second-largest application ever of its kind, hundreds of truckloads of polystyrene block are helping expedite an expansion of Salt Lake City’s Transit Express (TRAX) light-rail system. The ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — As the forklift lurched toward a nearby truck, its prongs began to slide between two foam blocks loaded on the trailer. An unmistakable squeak followed, like Styrofoam being jammed ...

8,000: Approximate number of geofoam blocks to be used in Salmon Creek Interchange Project. As the forklift lurched toward a nearby truck, its prongs began to slide between two foam blocks loaded on ...

A roadway improvement project in Willowbrook, IL, a western suburb of Chicago where State Highway 83 crosses 63 rd street in a mostly commercial intersection bordered by a golf course on the northeast ...

Giant foam blocks are seen along I-5 between Portland Avenue and Port of Tacoma road in Tacoma, Wash., on Friday, Aug. 10. Joshua Bessex joshua.bessex@gateline.com Q: I’ve seen large (foam) blocks ...

Crews will have their hands full getting the new waterfront tunnel open by early February, especially during a three-week span when state Route 99 will be closed in downtown Seattle. “We still have a ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) announced last week that they have completed the installation of all 6,000 blocks of geofoam used to rebuild US 36. The eastbound ...