A rigid pavement is a road surface overlaid with reinforced concrete, while a flexible or asphalt one has a bituminous (tar) overlay. Asphalt roads are the most common type of paved roads in ...

Once road builders make the base, it is time to build the asphalt concrete layers: the base layer, the intermediate layer and ...

A chip seal is an asphalt binder (commonly an emulsion) sprayed directly to a pavement surface followed by an application of aggregate chips, which are immediately rolled to ensure embedment.

These components are used to produce different types of asphalt, such as dense asphaltic concrete (AC), stone mastic asphalt (SMA ... can be used to extend the service life of a road surface. We ...

After decades of almost exclusively industrial duty, today, roller-compacted concrete pavements make sense almost anywhere.

Understanding these effects and taking the right preventative steps can save you from costly repairs and replacement down the ...

THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has completed the implementation of P60 million preventive road ...

FAE’s RCU75 tracked carrier is entering a new era, as the manufacturer has equipped the machine with an RPL/SSL-45 asphalt ...

The ORR report found that 93.6% of major road surfaces in the East ... harder to maintain - as well as more concrete roads which do not perform as well as asphalt, the area still "underperformed ...