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A breakthrough in the horizontal reuse of PA (porous asphalt)
May 12, 2016
An ambitious objective has led to significant steps in the reuse of PA (porous asphalt). While the market incidentally produces PA with a maximum of 30% of recovered raw materials, BAM has introduced its own innovations, enabling more than 90% of raw materials to be reused. And this year, subsidies from the European Commission will enable the LE2AP demonstration project to be constructed: one kilometre of sustainable PA. Large-scale production is also being developed.
A breakthrough in the horizontal reuse of PA (porous asphalt)
May 12, 2016
An ambitious objective has led to significant steps in the reuse of PA (porous asphalt). While the market incidentally produces PA with a maximum of 30% of recovered raw materials, BAM has introduced its own innovations, enabling more than 90% of raw materials to be reused. And this year, subsidies from the European Commission will enable the LE2AP demonstration project to be constructed: one kilometre of sustainable PA. Large-scale production is also being developed.
Polyfunctional Polymeric Systems (PPS) help stressed roads
May 12, 2016
Increases in mobility and loads to which roadways are subjected has led, over the past decade, to new technologies for increasing the life of highly stressed pavements. Alongside traditional layers in asphalt concrete with normal or modified binders, there are new technologies which make it possible to produce high performance bituminous layers through the use of polyfunctional polymeric systems (PPSs).
MPA calls on new London Mayor to safeguard aggregate wharves/depots
May 12, 2016
Housing is, rightly, the new London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s top priority, says the UK’s Mineral Products Association (MPA). It points out that delivery of much-needed new housing and infrastructure depends on a steady and adequate supply of construction aggregates and other essential mineral products such as concrete blocks and mortar. Wharves and rail depots play a key role in this, enabling the sustainable supply of bulk materials by rail and ship, delivering close to the market, significantly reducing t
A triple win for Finnish asphalt plant manufacturer Amomatic
May 12, 2016
Amomatic, a Finnish asphalt plant manufacturer specialising in modular batch-type plants since the 1960s, has been commissioning three asphalt plants simultanesously. Amomatic, which exhibited at bauma in Munich in April, said all of these will be helping their clients meet their asphalt production needs during the spring.
Major road widening project for Cambridgeshire
May 12, 2016
Work to upgrade the A14 route in Cambridgeshire now looks set to commence at the end of 2016. The A14 will be widened along a 33.6km stretch as part of a programme of works to increase its capacity. The work will also involve building a new bypass around Huntingdon as well as widening a section of the A1. The project also includes making a series of improvements to five junctions situated along the route, located at Bar Hill, Swavesey, Girton, Histon and Milton. In all the work is expected to cost some £1.5
Progress for Lower Thames crossing
May 12, 2016
Progress is being made with regard to the Lower Thames Crossing project planned to the east of London. The timeframe of the project
STRABAG wins Norway road and tunnel contract
May 12, 2016
STRABAG will build a section of the European Route E16 in Norway. This route connects capital Oslo with the Norway’s second largest city, Bergen and will be the first construction project being carried out in the country with STRABAG as sole contractor. The Øye–Eidsbru section is located about midway between Oslo and Bergen. The work comprises the new construction of 4.5km of main road and 2.1km of side roads. It includes a 1.97km long tunnel that will be built using conventional drilling and blasting me
VIDEO: Buffer buffoonery beggars belief
May 12, 2016
How many workers does it take to get back under control a concrete buffer that won’t be tied down? Quite a lot, apparently, as this video shows. The real question is, which cement-head lost control of his buffer in the first place?
April 2016
May 11, 2016
JCB telehander lifts a giant Oscar at Academy Awards ceremony