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Roadbuilding
Roll up the pavement: Gravel is making a comeback
Ever since the invention of the automobile, paved roads have meant progress. Now some cash-strapped towns and counties are finding progress too expensive, and they are tearing up battered roads and putting down gravel. The high price of pavement and the sour economy have driven municipalities in states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Vermont […]
January 6, 2010
Safety
Is your construction project award worthy?
Think your company has done a great job on a construction project or do you know of a colleague or agency who has? If so, why not nominate yourself or someone who know for the National Asphalt Pavement Association’s (NAPA) 2009 Awards Program. The program is now underway and award nomination forms are available for […]
January 5, 2010
Roadbuilding
Glass is the new pavement
Those empty glass jars spaghetti sauce and bottles wine typically put in our recycle bins are getting a second life as a porous pavement system.   Although it hasn’t yet been indicated for highways, the porous pavement system–sold under the name FilterPave–used 100-percent post-consumer recycled glass for parking areas, trails and walkways, sidewalks, pedestrian patios, driveways and golf […]
November 2, 2009
Roadbuilding
Featured Articles: The Power of Milling
Versatile and adaptable, milling can help pavement and budget management programs.
October 1, 2009
Roadbuilding
Cutler Paving Recycles Existing Asphalt Pavements
Cutler Paving, Inc. recycles existing asphalt pavements in a single pass, utilizing its own hot in-place recycling equipment that applies the virgin-wearing course over the recycled layer. The machine applies heat to soften the existing pavement, scarifies the softened pavement and applies a recycling agent to the scarified, reclaimed material to improve viscosity. It then […]
September 29, 2009
Roadbuilding
Crack Management
A guide to understanding crack types, their causes and how to handle them. Cracking is the bane of pavements, whether of asphaltic concrete or portland cement concrete. Asphalt pavement can crack from the top down and from the bottom up. It can alligator-crack, longitudinalcrack, thermal-crack, and fatigue-crack. Concrete pavements expansion-crack, D-crack, transverse-crack, fault and even […]
August 1, 2009
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