Asphalt in the News

Maximum Asphalt-NCAT Test Track Findings

By E. Ray Brown
From Better Roads Magazine, 11/2006

The test track was built to develop and evaluate better ways to design and construct hot-mix asphalt pavements.

Construction of the National Center for Asphalt Technology Test Track was originally completed in 2000 and traffic was initiated shortly thereafter.
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Curbing the High Cost of Road Building

David Newcomb, P.E., Ph.D., and David Moellering
From Georgia County Government Magazine, 7/ 2006

As Georgia’s counties and cities receive bids for road projects in the near future, most will be shocked at the increase in prices across the board. This includes increases in the basic materials we use in our roadway projects such as asphalt, concrete, steel, sand and stone.
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Asphalt Pavement Is America's Most Recycled Product

Americans who recycle their aluminum cans, newspapers, plastics and glass are helping to preserve our nation’s resources. But daily and quietly, the Hot Mix Asphalt industry is recycling asphalt pavement to a substantially larger extent. Asphalt pavement is unquestionably the nation’s most widely recycled product.
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