Tag: RAP
Assessing Sustainability: Recycled Plastic Waste & High RAP Content
What Is Sustainability?
In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development defined sustainability as a “development concept that meets the needs of the present...
BACK TO BASICS: Best Practices, Stockpile Management
Over 95% of asphalt mix for federal, state, and local governments is produced through “drum-mix” or continuous mix facilities. Since gradation is controlled at...
What if BMD is a Failure? There Are Many Different Measures...
For the better part of two decades, researchers and departments of transportation have invested millions of dollars into laboratory asphalt mixture testing in order...
VTRC program overview Spring 2021
Introduction and Staff Changes
Even as much of the world retreated to a more “virtual” existence last spring, researchers from the Virginia Transportation Research Council's...
Sustainable… Resilient… Asphalt
Each year, a new set of buzzwords or cliches are used in our society and culture. A quick search of the internet lists the...
BMD Pilots – We need your participation
With paving season right around the corner, you are clearly in final preparations to start the season off right. Hopefully, participating in one or...
NAPA annual recycle & warm mix survey results
Reprint from NAPA website: asphaltpavement.org
During the 2018
construction season, on average, new asphalt pavements contained 21.1 percent
RAP, according to the latest version of NAPA's annual survey of...