After months of working with businesses and residents to prepare for impending construction impacts, weather still determines whether or not plans change at the last moment. Case in Point: Stewart Street. Stewart Street paving between Third and Fourth Avenues was supposed to happen the last weekend of July. Then Seattle’s record-breaking heat wave made the materials literally too hot to handle. One-hundred-degree-plus heat wreaks havoc with the concrete mix. Now that temps are “back to normal” crews will tackle the work this weekend, along with paving from Second to Third.
- Stewart St. Paving
Weather has a close, albeit tumultuous, relationship with paving, which requires mild conditions for concrete to properly cure and asphalt to correctly set (ah, the prima donna…). Hence the busy summer construction season!