Category: Sustainability

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Champaign County, Illinois Extending Infrastructure Dollars with VRAM.

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About this project: A Void Reducing Asphalt Membrane, (VRAM), project took place on I-57 in Champaign County, Illinois on October 5th. This was a 70,688-foot project, running from 2 miles South of Thomasboro to US-136 in Rantoul. IDOT designated VRAM for the application to the centerline joint. (Note: in Illinois...
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IDOT Investing in VRAM to Save Infrastructure Dollars

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About This Project: A project utilizing VRAM took place on IL-49 in Vermillion County, Illinois on September 27th. This was a 14.5-mile, two-lane project. It began on the southern end at US-150 west of Fithian, ending at US-136 on the northern end. IDOT designated VRAM for the application to the...
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Improving the Sustainability of Asphalt Pavements

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(Excerpt from the Fall 2002 Asphalt Pavement Magazine) An increasing number of agencies, companies, organizations, institutes, and governing bodies are embracing principles of sustainability in managing their activities and conducting business. Historically, sustainability referred to environmental sustainability and simply meant using natural resources in a way that people in the...
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Building Resilient Transportation Infrastructure Requires Investment, Innovation & Collaboration

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Excerpt from the JULY – AUGUST 2022 Edition of TRANSPORTATION BUILDER Magazine from ARTBA, The American Road & Transportation Builders Association CHAIRMAN’S CORNER - by WARD NYE | Chairman & CEO, Martin Marietta Building Resilient Transportation Infrastructure Requires Investment, Innovation & Collaboration “At the federal level, the Infrastructure Investment and...
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Sustainability and Profit

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Excerpt of October 2022 Article Featured in Asphalt Pavement Magazine Volume 27 | Number 5 BY BENJAMIN F. BOWERS, PE “The three tenants of sustainability are people (social), planet (environmental concerns), and the oft-forgotten profit. As a graduate student, I lounged one evening on my porch after a day of...
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VRAM Helping Franklin County, Ohio Create More Sustainable Roads

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About this project: A VRAM project took place on August 25th in Franklin County, Ohio. This Ohio Department of Transportation, (ODOT), project was on I-71, from SLM 25.61 north to SLM 27.74 and I-270 from SLM 24.55 east to SLM 26.50. VRAM was also applied to the centerline joint on...
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