New York City DOT has chosen to use MWV's Evotherm warm mix asphalt technology for all of their Hurricane Sandy response paving. Evotherm allows NYC DOT to pave this winter and early spring despite the low temperatures and long distances to the affected areas. After initial demonstration work with Evotherm in sub-freezing temperatures in 2008, […]
Take a little trip down the "Greenest Street in America", according to the Chicago Department of Transportation. The mixes used on Cermak Road in Chicago, Illinois, contained recycled asphalt pavement (RAP), recycle asphalt shingles (RAS), and/or ground tire rubber (GTR). Evotherm warm mix asphalt produced all the designs 50-60 °F lower than their conventional temps. Cermak Road, a […]
NAPA posted this video detailing how Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions and Lojac Enterprises brought recycling and Evotherm warm mix together for a thin asphalt overlay on Tenth Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Located in the heart of Nashville, Tenth Street bounced riders over plenty of bumps and utility cuts yet was structurally sound. The economically and […]
Caltrans made a historic decision in allowing a California contractor, CC Myers, to close US 50 over the famed 7,382 foot Sierra pass called Echo Summit. The city of South Lake Tahoe depends on this highway for its commercial and tourist needs. MWV Asphalt Innovations with their partner, Telfer Oil Company, provided Evotherm on a […]
Don’t miss the Summer 2011 issue of Pavement Preservation Journal. It features the article Thin-Lift Warm Mix Uses RAP, Shingles about Lindsey Contractors’ experience placing 100,000 tons of Evotherm WMA on US 84 in Texas. The job took place just before the start of Behind the Screed so never was posted. Lindsey used Evotherm with […]
Jim Smith Contracting marked a milestone by running Evotherm warm mix on all their jobs last Thrusday. After meetings on Wednesday with their customers to share the benefits and advantages of Evotherm, the next day Jim Smith ran Evotherm in all mixtures out of their Grand Rivers, KY plant. Ambient temperatures were 58 F with […]
Last Tuesday I attended another very successful project with Chester Bross Construction in on Route 50 in Lee's Summit, MO. This project was a first in several ways for Chester Bross. Not only were they using Evotherm for the first time but this year they purchased a ground tire rubber machine for blending into their […]
The Jiaozhou Bay Tunnel paving trials with Evotherm WMA were completed last month. Evotherm exhibited good performance during road paving and minimized fumes during the tunnel application. The trial section is a 7 kilometers of polymer modified asphalt. The owner plans to pave the whole tunnel using Evotherm WMA. The tunnel project in Jiaozhou Bay […]
Last week, we participated in our 2nd WMA job with Colorado DOT. Suncor Energy provided the 70/-28 PMAC with Evotherm for a job on US50. The mix is a surface overlay with 20% RAP and 1% lime. This is also the first time this district has used RAP. The wind gusted over 30 mph and […]
I recently worked with Century Asphalt in Texas who evaluated using Evotherm 3G chemistry to get Recycled Asphalt Shingles (RAS) and RAP back into his mix design. The contractor was forced to take out all the RAS and lower the RAP percentage in his HMA design when workability and uniform compaction became an issue on […]