Long Life Asphalt Pavements

Long Life Asphalt Pavements Long life asphalt pavements are essential to maintaining good road infrastructure. These types of pavement are designed to provide stronger structures with durable bases that can last up to 50 years or more. Roads like this are possible...

Warm Mix Asphalt for Roads

Warm Mix Asphalt for Roads Warm-mix asphalt is a process derived from the hot-mix method of creating paving asphalt. Paving asphalt material is composed of approximately 5% asphalt/bitumen and 95% aggregates, which are primarily stone, sand or a composite of different...

Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement

Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) is the term used for recycled asphalting materials used to pave roads and highways. RAP is the number one recycled material in the United States and is classified as industrial waste. As of 2013, nearly 68...

How Highway Funding Works

How Highway Funding Works Understanding how highway funding works can be a Herculean task. To do so, one must go back about 50 years, when motorways first started becoming a necessity in the United States. Road infrastructure in the US has been funded by the Highway...

Asphalt Paving Trends

Asphalt Paving Trends Asphalt paving and construction is expected to rebound in the 2013-2017 period after taking some hard hits since 2008’s housing market bubble burst. Producers and contractors suffered cutbacks as government-funded projects scaled back and the...