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  2. Cool pavement - Wikipedia

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    This increase is also achieved by mixing in aggregates covered with cement paste and asphalt binder before pavement is laid, which creates connected pores that hold water. [4] Permeable and water-retaining pavements use a permeable material with pores grouted using blast furnace slag or pervious mortar to hold runoff water in a particular layer ...

  3. Maxwell Products Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Maxwell Products, Inc. is a privately held, pavement maintenance products manufacturing company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. [1] Founded in 1975 by brothers Ted and Delwyn Maxwell, Maxwell Products manufactures asphalt and concrete pavement preservation products, including Elastoflex crack and concrete joint sealant, NUVO premium crack and concrete joint sealant, GAP Mastic, and GAP Patch.

  4. Stone mastic asphalt - Wikipedia

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    The stone skeleton is filled with a mastic of bitumen and filler to which fibres are added to provide adequate stability of bitumen and to prevent drainage of binder during transport and placement. Typical SMA composition consists of 70−80% coarse aggregate, 8−12% filler, 6.0−7.0% binder, and 0.3 per cent fibre.

  5. Sealcoat - Wikipedia

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    The process is typically a two-coat application which requires 24 to 48 hours of curing before vehicles can be allowed back on the surface. Once the surface is properly prepared, then properly mixed sealer will be applied at about 1.5 square meters per liter (60 sq ft per U.S. gal; 72 sq ft per Imp gal) per coat.

  6. Oldcastle Materials - Wikipedia

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    Oldcastle Materials Inc. is a supplier of asphalt, concrete, and other building materials, and also offers construction and paving services. The Atlanta-based company is a subsidiary of CRH plc, a publicly traded international group of diversified building materials businesses, [2] [3] and has approximately 18,000 employees at 1,200 locations, as of March 2018.

  7. Road surface - Wikipedia

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    Cold mix asphalt is often used on lower-volume rural roads, where hot mix asphalt would cool too much on the long trip from the asphalt plant to the construction site. [18] An asphalt concrete surface will generally be constructed for high-volume primary highways having an average annual daily traffic load greater than 1,200 vehicles per day. [19]

  8. Road surface marking - Wikipedia

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    Thermoplastic road marking paint is a solid powder at room temperature. The thermoplastic paint is melted in a specialized machine called a thermoplastic heater-mixer, before being transferred into the paint tank of a marker. Larger marking machines may have internal heater-mixers. The molten coating is introduced into an insulated marking bucket.

  9. Binder (material) - Wikipedia

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    A binder or binding agent is any material or substance that holds or draws other materials together to form a cohesive whole mechanically, chemically, by adhesion or cohesion. More narrowly, binders are liquid or dough-like substances that harden by a chemical or physical process and bind fibres, filler powder and other particles added into it.