Jim Tartak, General Manager of Carolina Motorsports, recently took us on a tour of his kart track and spoke about the nuances of kart racing and why consistency on the track is so important to driver safety and to performance. “The racing karts do not have suspensions, making it very physically demanding on the driver […]
This year’s Greater Austin Business Award for Take On Traffic went to Industrial Asphalt’s KBDJ Quarry. The quarry provides raw materials to TxDOT for the maintenance and construction of roadways. KBDJ’s sister company, Industrial Asphalt, built the region’s first “green” highway, a three mile stretch of SH 71 near the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Evotherm was […]
"NB West Mixes the Recycle Options for Missouri" was the headline of a story in Asphalt Pro this month by Sandy Lender editor of AsphaltPro magazine. For Earth Day 2010, Missouri DOT (MoDOT) officials teamed up with NB West to film two educational videos about the recycled content of asphalt. A project this summer on […]
After using warm-mix asphalt on larger projects in 2008, the city’s engineers determined a complete conversion to warm-mix asphalt was necessary for all paving projects in 2009. Because the elevation of Mexico City is over 7,300 feet above sea level, cool nights are common with an average nighttime low of 50° F (10° C). Because […]
Behind the Screed is dedicated to communicating new advances in Evotherm® warm-mix asphalt – a technology that is revolutionizing the world of road paving. Warm-mix asphalt has many documented benefits to the environment, to paving contractors and to construction professionals who work in the asphalt industry on a daily basis. Behind the Screed will highlight […]
With Evotherm, aggregate is easily coated with asphalt.
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Jason Bausano, Research Engineer Bryan is Ingevity’s Technical Marketing Manager for Evotherm in the Northeastern US and Canada. Bryan has over 30 years of experience in the asphalt industry including sales, quality control, operations of production and material laydown. He’s an active member of the National Asphalt Pavement Association, serving on the Board of Directors […]