When we think about the future of pavement, we tend to think about durability, construction costs, maintenance and repair costs, green features and future technologies. Here at Wolf Paving, we strive to stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and the future of asphalt paving.
Wolf Paving would like to help you stay on top of the latest developments and news in the asphalt paving industry, so we’ve put together this list of what we feel, are some of the top paving industry news and blog websites.
1. Aggregate Research
Aggregate Research provides news and information on asphalt paving, including mix design, quality, various binders and aggregates and asphalt research and testing information.
2. Asphalt Facts – The Truth About Asphalt Pavement
Asphalt Facts provides information on asphalt sustainability, cost effectiveness, asphalt engineers and perpetual pavements and porous pavement.
It may look black, but asphalt pavement is turning green. Porous asphalt is increasingly the choice of businesses, cities, agencies and homeowners striving for environmental sustainability and durability of paved areas.
You'll find this permeable product in a wide range of areas, including:
Ridgewood Baptist Church, located in Brookfield, was looking for some help with construction and re-paving on their parking lot. Marty Marks of Ridgewood Baptist Church approached Wolf Paving with the goal of having their worn-out parking lot reconstructed, which involves removing the top layer of asphalt and the subgrade, regrading the area, adding additional sub-layer materials and paving the surface with new asphalt.
Asphalt pavement is a mix of coarse aggregate stone, sand, fine aggregate and asphalt cement, which is petroleum based. Depending on the asphalt manufacturing process and temperatures used, it is either considered hot mix asphalt or warm mix asphalt.
