A half century’s worth of experience in construction didn’t come by choice, claims Rob Buckley, the third-generation leader of a family business, Buckley & Co. But when a tragic truck fire burned a section of Interstate 95 through Philadelphia last summer, engineers with the Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation knew who their choice was to call.

Buckley in turn called on subcontractors and suppliers to reverse-engineer a fast-tracked solution from scratch. “On Sunday, June 11 and within an hour of the bridge collapse on I-95, I received a call from Rob Buckley,” says Archie Filshill, CEO of Aero Aggregates of North America. “He explained what happened and shared his thoughts on how to rebuild I-95 quickly using foam-glass aggregate.”