Thanks to the Asphalt Pavement Alliance for getting this song stuck in my head this morning! The Asphalt Pavement Alliance created this video to spotlight the driveability of asphalt pavements. Author: Heather Dolan
Highest Amount of Recycled Material Yet
Hurricane Sandy Response
Warm on I-240 Exit Ramp
Warm on I-240 Exit Ramp
New Mexico DOT issued the 2014 edition of The Standard Specifications for Highway and Bridge Construction. In it they define warm mix temperature as asphalt mix produced at 275F or less. When utilizing warm mix asphalt, ambient paving temperatures can be dropped 20F for open graded friction courses (OGFC) and 15F for dense graded mixes. New Mexico DOT specifies […]
Due to warm mix asphalt's success on flood response projects last fall, the Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association has indicated that the remaining 850 million in flood repair work will be completed using warm mix. Last year, contractors from Colorado and surrounding states utilized Evotherm warm mix asphalt to reconnect communities cut off by damage from […]
SASHTO just around the corner
Dam near impossible
Sometimes things get bad, really bad. Potholes littered the concrete of Virginia's Interstate 264. "I have never seen so many potholes. Chunks of pothole debris all over the roadway and flying up on cars," wrote a district facility manager as reported by the Virginian-Pilot. Vehicles were getting flat tires and "hundreds" of claims were coming in. In […]