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Roadbuilding
INFOGRAPHIC: Recycling shingles for asphalt
Recycled asphalt shingles (RAS) have been featured in Better Roads before. We’ve discussed how they can prevent potholes, their significance in binder aging, their growing popularity. Now, Hometown Dumpster Rental is featuring an infographic about RAS on its Trash Talk blog. According to Trash Talk, the benefits of RAS go beyond preventing potholes: the method is […]
August 8, 2013
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Indian researchers make cheaper bricks from paper
Researchers in India have formulated a process of making cheaper bricks from recycled paper, reports Inhabitat. Professors Rahul Ralegaonkar and Sachin Mandavgane of India’s Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology visited a recycling plant in 2009 and found that 15 percent of the paper processed there wound up in a landfill as sludge. So the two […]
February 5, 2013
Business
Morbark acquires Boxer Equipment product line
Morbark, a manufacturer of tree care, sawmill, recycling, forestry and biomass chipping and grinding equipment has finalized its acquisition of Boxer Equipment, a product line of Mertz Manufacturing that manufactures and markets compact utility loaders and attachments. As part of the transaction, Morbark has acquired all product designs, intellectual property and manufacturing tools, as well […]
January 2, 2013
Construction Equipment
Vancouver roads use recycled plastic in paving process
Vancouver’s recycled plastic may be reincarnated as highway pavement. The city has revealed a new way to make asphalt using a warm-mix application created from recycled plastic, The Globe and Mail reported. The warm-mix method, mostly developed in Germany, has been used experimentally in North America for the past decade. However, Vancouver is the first […]
November 20, 2012
Equipment
Thunderbolts and lightning very, very … concrete recycling?
Citing “no effective recycling method for concrete,” German researchers are developing an electrifying method of their own. And it involves bolts of lightning.
October 15, 2012
Roadbuilding
Road Science
Asphalt emulsions mix oil with water.
June 9, 2012
Roadbuilding
How one public works department developed a spec using recycled aggregate that includes toilets
The Public Works Department of the city of Bellingham, Wash., completed a street project that included 400 old toilets incorporated into concrete.
June 7, 2012
Roadbuilding
How one public works department developed a spec to use recycled aggregate which allows for construction waste — including toilets
Recycling has reached a new level for the transportation construction industry.  The Public Works Department of the city of Bellingham, Wash., pushed the limits of recycled materials use with a street project that included 400 old toilets incorporated into concrete. The Public Works Department developed a specification using recycled aggregate, which allows for the […]
June 7, 2012
Roadbuilding
Highway Contractor
Pavement preservation expert Larry Galehouse talks about tools and strategies that make sense for surviving the Great Recession.
October 4, 2011
Roadbuilding
Kenworth’s Renton plant named 2010 Best Workplace award for recycling, waste reduction
The Kenworth Truck Company manufacturing plant in Renton, Wash., received a 2010 Best Workplace for Recycling and Waste Reduction Award from King County’s Solid Waste Division for Kenworth’s outstanding efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle. This is the second consecutive year the plant has received this award. Kenworth-Renton’s cafeteria continues to use food waste composting, […]
June 30, 2010
Roadbuilding
Asphalt Pavement Alliance refutes claims that asphalt prices now match concrete costs
The Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA) is refuting claims by the concrete industry that the cost of asphalt pavements has risen to match the cost of concrete. “Asphalt pavement is the buy of the year,” said asphalt producer/contractor Larry Lemon, speaking on behalf of the National Asphalt Pavement Association, in a written statement. “There are a […]
November 11, 2009
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