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Asphalt as Perpetual Pavement

Have you ever been to developed countries like Tokyo, Japan and Singapore and noticed how smooth their roads are? Yes, I might seem to be a lunatic but in this industry, you can’t help but notice little things that makes this industry what it is, even the pavement. What good pavement there is when it is not asphalt?

In Cedar Capital Group’s estimate, more than 90% of all roads nowadays have been asphalted.

According to a good friend of ours, Merriam Dictionary, asphalt is known as Bitumen and is a sticky, black and vicious liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum. In addition to being smooth, durable, safe, and quiet, asphalt is the most versatile pavement material. Pavement structures can be designed to handle any load, from passenger cars to heavy trucks. Surface mixes can be customized to absorb noise, to reduce splash and spray during rainstorms, and even to help treat rain water.

Most pavements nowadays are perpetual pavement.

Perpetual pavement main concept is for it to last, last and last in a very very very very long time, hence, the name. Perpetual Pavement combines the well-documented smoothness and safety advantages of asphalt with an advanced, multi-layer paving design process that with routine maintenance extends the useful life of a roadway.

Perpetual pavement ranges from the thinnest and thickest asphalt. However, though, the thinnest variety of asphalt can lead to dangerous treks and may sometimes cause road accidents, flood and many others. Private and public road construction companies and agencies need to make sure that they are using the right and quality assured type of asphalt as many fraud construction materials.

The pavement design begins with a strong, yet flexible bottom layer that resists tensile strain caused by traffic, and thus stops cracks from forming in the bottom of the pavement.

A Perpetual Pavement provides a durable, safe, smooth, long-lasting roadway without expensive, time-consuming, traffic-disrupting reconstruction or major repair.

When scheduled surface restoration is performed, Perpetual Pavements can be maintained easily and cost-effectively without removing the road structure for reconstruction, saving time and money while keeping motorists happy.

Asphalt is even recyclable, providing further cost savings and environmental benefits. United States of America saves $1.6 billion in recycling asphalt every year.

Asphalt has a proven safety record as a driving surface, offering stronger visual contrast with center stripes and other markings. Additional advantages can include reduced noise, reduced splash and spray, and greater skid resistance.

Many motorists have complaints on the traditional road construction that is why many construction companies and agencies in many countries prefer to put asphalt in road construction. With the use of Perpetual Pavement, workers would even have to waste time maintaining cracked roads and could focus more on building new ones.

The use of perpetual pavement doesn’t stop engineers in concocting another method in improving road construction through the use of asphalt.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Cedar Capital Group Japan .