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Healthy Competition Between Pavement Industries Could Save the Public Millions

The European Concrete Paving Association (EUPAVE) is convinced that increased competition between pavement industries should be a common thread in processes and policies to procure pavement in Europe. EUPAVE calls on […]

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The Future is Bright with Concrete Roads!

The Concrete Initiative published the article entitled “The Future is Bright with Concrete Roads” by Karl Downey, Secretary General European Concrete Paving Association (EUPAVE). Concrete can provide both the surface layer

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Minnesota, USA: Unbonded Overlay Construction Featuring Fabric Interlayer

The Concrete Paving Association of Minnesota (CPAM) reported that Olmsted County, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, constructed an unbounded concrete overlay construction featuring fabric interlayer as a replacement for a hot mix asphalt interlayer. The unbounded

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Captivating Time Lapse Video: Roller Compacted Concrete Pavement (RCC)

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Solar Panels Far Exceed Expectations & Pave Way for Power-Producing Pavements

  A 3-year pilot project/experimental bike path with solar panels has generated more than 3,000 kilowatt-hours during its first six months of operation in Amsterdam, Netherlands—far exceeding engineers’ expectations. The

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3-D Technology Promises Many Benefits for Stringless Concrete Paving

Three dimensional (3-D) technology could eliminate the need for string lines on concrete paving projects, but Kent Godbersen, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing—GOMACO, explains that there is a significant

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Self-Healing Concrete by Bacterial Mineral Precipitation

A team of microbiologists at The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, headed by Dr. Henk Jonkers, Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Materials Sciences and Sustainable Construction—TUDelft, Water Resources Section, is researching

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Concrete Pavement MDA: Evaluation of Foam Drainage Test to Measure Air Void Stability in Concrete

Iowa State University’s National Concrete Pavement Technology Center (CPTech Center) has published the report, “Concrete Pavement MDA: Evaluation of Foam Drainage Test to Measure Air Void Stability in Concrete”. ISCP Board

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Long-Term Pavement Performance Automated Faulting Measurement

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (US-FHWA) has released a report that focuses on identifying transverse joint locations on jointed plain concrete pavements using an automated joint detection algorithm and computing faulting. At these

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Evaluation of Pavement Safety Performance

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that isolates the effects of various low-cost pavement treatments on roadway safety through analysis of both flexible and rigid pavement treatments. The intent

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Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavement

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has published a TechBrief titled “Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavement (PICP)”. This TechBrief presents an overview of PICP and its use. General information is provided on PICP composition

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ACPA Launches Wikipave: a Concrete Pavement Wikipedia

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]The American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) today announced the launch of its Wikipave™ website,  which places information about and related to concrete pavement at the fingertips of anyone, anywhere

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Evaluating the Performance of Alternative Supplementary Cementing Material in Concrete

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]The Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas at Austin has released a report that characterizes and evaluates the performance of eight natural pozzolans to assess their

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Public Works Dedicates Special Issue to Roller-Compacted Concrete (RCC)

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text el_class=”cleanlist”]A special issue of Public Works magazine dedicated to roller-compacted concrete (RCC) pavement includes articles on: “Alternate pavement” stands the test of time – A roller-compacted concrete road

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Structural Performance of Ultra-Thin Whitetopping on Illinois Roadways and Parking Lots

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]A performance evaluation of ultra-thin whitetopping (UTW) pavements in Illinois was undertaken in 2012–2014 to evaluate current design procedures and to determine design life criteria for future projects. The two

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Optimizing Pavement Base, Subbase, and Subgrade Layers for Cost and Performance on Local Roads

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]This report is one of two products for this project with the other being a design guide. This report describes test results and comparative analysis from 16 different portland

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MDE (Medellín, Colombia)

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Use of Concrete Pavement Overlays on U.S. 58 in Virginia

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Asphalt overlays are typically used to extend the life of continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) because they can be placed in one or more layers while traffic uses the

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