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Industry leaders participate in ARTBA Foundation Leadership Development Program
May 20th, 2022
Image by Champverti from Pixabay. The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation’s Industry Leader Development Program (ILDP) hosted 32 emerging leaders in the transportation design and construction industry in an intensive May 16-17 introduction to federal legislative and regulatory advocacy issues. The annual event, held in conjunction with ARTBA’s Federal Issues Program and […]
Tensar technical seminar to feature Arkansas governor
February 9th, 2022
Gov. Asa Hutchison and Arkansas Department of Transportation Director Lori Tudor will address the impact of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) on state transportation projects at the Tensar technical seminar. Tensar International Corp.’s InterAx geogrid, a new product released in August 2021. Photograph courtesy Tensar International Corp. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Director […]
How pavements become more resilient with interlayers
January 4th, 2022
By Andrew Dietz, Creative Influence LLC Fragmentation and time breakup of yellow center line on old asphalt road (shallow depth of field). Photograph courtesy of Tensar Americas At first blush, the Biden Administration’s infrastructure bill appears to be very good news for road contractors. Clocking in at more than one trillion dollars, it holds the promise […]
TRB offers webinar on longer life for low-volume roads with geosynthetics
October 21st, 2021
Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service Low-volume road construction can benefit from using geosynthetics. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) will host a webinar, “Giving Low-Volume Roads a Longer Life with Geosynthetics,” on Nov. 8, 2021, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. EST that will discuss the current state of knowledge regarding the use of geosynthetics […]
Long-lasting road rehabilitation with Polyfelt in England
August 6th, 2021
Photograph courtesy of TenCate Geosynthetics Europe The A617 Millennium Way, a road in Nottinghamshire County (England), which was opened in the year 2000, featured cracks and surface damage after 15 years of use and therefore had to be renovated. Asphalt Grid Systems Ltd. proposed TenCate Polyfelt PGM-G100/100 as a cost-efficient and technically excellent solution. Missing adhesion between layers before treatment Core samples had shown that the structural integrity of the bituminous layers was good. However, […]