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Screen shot from CBS video. A Scottish company has invented a way to recycle hard-to-use plastic into a material for use in paving roads and highways, everything Lubbock reports. The plastic is ground up and mixed with a secret ingredient to form a material that replaces some of the oil-based bitumen used in asphalt paving. […]

A Volvo Active Care subscription is the best decision for your machine When maintaining high performance levels are critical to your job site, a Volvo Active Care subscription could be the key. Volvo Active Care is a machine monitoring service partnered with Volvo’s unique CareTrack telematics system, which takes the hassle out of fleet management. […]

Sacyr financing $185m of the Puerta de Hierro highway in Colombia Sacyr Concesiones has completed the financial closure of the concession of the Puerta de Hierro – Palmar de Varela and Carreto-Cruz del Viso motorway in Colombia for $185 million (€168 million) with the financial institutions Banco Santander and BTG Pactual. The closure guarantees the […]

Some UK Councils begin charging for garden waste in the name of environmental responsibility More than a third (36%) of environmental services managers in councils, local authorities, government or infrastructure agencies rank ‘mounting environmental responsibilities’ among the three main challenges they face in providing services, such as garden waste collection to the public today. The […]

Photo courtesy Yellowstone National Park. The concrete deck, sidewalks, and parapets of the bridge over the Yellowstone River at the Northeast Entrance Road near Tower Junction in Yellowstone National Park have deteriorated so badly that the National Park Service (NPS) wants to replace it, the Montana Standard reports. The bridge, which was built in the […]

The 18th meeting of the Sustainable Pavements Technical Working Group (SPTWG) gave…

The Southwest Concrete Pavement Association (SWCPA), an ACPA affiliate, along with…

The fourth AASHTO Pavement ME National Users Group Meeting last week…