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By: Jan R. Prusinski, PE
Is your knowledge up to date on how to design, construct and maintain concrete pavements? Do you know current best practices for stabilizing base materials and soils with cement? Have you considered roller-compacted concrete for a street or industrial site, but don't know how to design or specify it? Are you giving your clients--public agencies, facility owners, the traveling public--the best performing pavements at the lowest cost? If these or similar questions are on your mind, then the Cementx Pavement Blog is for you. Also, you can register for updates and a free giveaway.
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By: Richard B. Rogers, PE
During the recent Transportation Research Board meeting, Katie A. Larsen, University of Texas at Austin, reported some interesting findings regarding her studies in asphalt-rubber permeable friction courses (PFC). During the Distress Analysis Work Group Committee meeting her preliminary findings indicated that unacceptably high levels of zinc were present in the runoff water. By: Jan R. Prusinski, PE
A new Market Intelligence report by the Portland Cement Association entitled “Paving: The New Realities” concludes that asphalt pavement’s initial cost advantage over concrete has now reversed. Concrete roads are now not only the lowest life-cycle cost alternative (which they traditionally have been), but now command an initial bid price advantage... |
PURPOSEThe Cementx Pavement Blog seeks to make pavement owners, engineers and contractors smarter about selecting, designing, constructing and maintaining pavements. New blog postings began February 1, 2017; however, we carried over pavement-related blog postings from our older blog, the "Texas Cement and Concrete Blog," which ran until December 2016.
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