Jun 05, 2018
If you need to take liquid asphalt cement (AC) samples from your 4-inch or 6-inch line that feeds liquid AC to your mixer, the engineers at Maxam Equipment, Kansas City, […]
May 25, 2018
Gallagher Asphalt eliminates long joints on Illinois S.R. 50 The problem of deteriorating longitudinal cold joints between parallel one-lane lifts of asphalt has long perplexed pavement owners. These joints between […]
May 25, 2018
Starting Jan. 1, 2020, sulphur fuel regulations will be changing, and will likely increase binder prices. The maximum sulphur content allowed in fuel oil of any ship or vessel operating anywhere in the world will be 0.5 percent m/m. Here’s how things will change, and what the asphalt industry will do about it.
May 25, 2018
Rubber modified asphalts (RMA) have been around for decades to offer excellent performance with environmental and cost benefits. Despite real-world experience, RMA still constitutes less than 20 percent of modified asphalts. We see two primary drivers for this: limited application field and processability. Here, Tom Rosenmayer shares his vision of the future of rubber modified asphalts.
May 25, 2018
Pace Construction, St. Louis, Missouri, applies innovative practices through the value engineering process for a 55,000-ton mill-and-fill project spanning a stretch of 22 miles of Highway 63 just south of Rolla for MoDOT.
May 25, 2018
In the wake of the June 2016 completion of the Panama Canal expansion, Gulf Coast–an Oldcastle Materials Company–constructed an overpass for a Houston ship channel project.
May 25, 2018
The liquid asphalt cement (AC) binder only constitutes about five percent of the total material in asphalt mix. But all too often, this binder can harden during storage, clogging the asphalt silo and creating clusters of mix no softer than the roads we drive on. Here’s how to unclog the asphalt silo safely.