Paving the Future of Asphalt
Innovations Reshaping Roads and Technology
By Steve Sniff
For anyone but an asphalt technician, hearing about the“ latest technology” might bring to mind QDEL TVs, connected cars or metaverse gaming. But while anxiously awaiting the next edition of Asphalt magazine, the paving aficionado’ s mind might instead be drawn to telematic capabilities, perpetual pavement designs and nanotechnology. Wait... what? Nanotechnology? In the paving business? Read on.
The Way We Were Asphalt paving has been the surfacing of choice in road construction for the last 100 years. Like most technology, it has seen vast improvements in functionality, efficiency and ergonomics over time. Also like most technology, the greatest strides have taken place within the last decade,
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