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Asphalt Contractor's Top 30 Products 2024
The best list of new, innovative, and industry shaping products for the road building industry.
Equipment
Eliminate Rework With Equipment & Technology
No Edge Lines
No Edge Lines Season 2 Is Going Places
Pavement Maintenance
The Top 25 Pavement Maintenance & Reconstruction Products 2024
Sustainability
How Asphalt Pavement Industry Will Decarbonize
Concrete
How Asphalt Contractors Place Concrete With Pavers
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Asphalt
2024 State of the Road Building Industry: Into the Unknown
A year ago, there was a growing sense that 2023 would see some form of economic recession, but that didn't happen. This contributes to a greater sense of uncertainty as experts look toward 2024. The takeaway? Be prepared for anything.
Asphalt Recycling
Green Asphalt: Be Humble and Kick Asphalt
One asphalt plant is doing what many consider as the unthinkable: producing asphalt mixes from 100% reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), and they can convert any asphalt plant to do the same. Extensive testing says it works, but changing opinions is hard.
Asphalt
Three Reasons To Abandon Asphalt Sampling Behind the Paver
The arguments for implementing serious changes are piling up faster than a pile of RAP.
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Asphalt
Everything We Saw At World of Asphalt 2024
Nashville was hardly big enough to contain everything that World of Asphalt 2024 had to offer, and whether you were there or not, there are plenty of things you might have missed!
Equipment
Electric Power Will Displace Diesel Machines
Why will EVs eventually dominate the market? Whether it comes from gas, diesel, liquid hydrogen or solid state batteries you are buying energy. And pound for pound, ounce for ounce, dollar for dollar – electric means more bang for your buck.
Asphalt
BOMAG LIVE! New Products, Giveaways, and More at World of Asphalt
BOMAG Americas’ World of Asphalt 2024 participation will be one of the company’s largest and most ambitious to date. Featured in BOMAG’s 2,500 ft2 display in booth #2731.
Asphalt
World of Asphalt Preview Guide 2024
The biggest product showcase and event for asphalt producers, pavers, and everything in-between.
Asphalt Pavers
LeeBoy 8680 Paver
New and improved from one of the industry's best.
Asphalt
Astec Expands Rock to Road Strategy at World of Asphalt 2024
Five new products and product features will be on display at Astec's booth #1263 where attendees will get a first-hand look at innovative additions to crushing, paving, and milling.
Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other
Trimble Adds Mills and Cold Planers to Roadworks Paving Control
New version of Trimble’s next-generation paving control platform for smoother, more precise paving surfaces extends the functionality to an additional machine type
Infrastructure
Building Better Cities: The Future of Transportation Infrastructure
When the people that design transportation infrastructure and the people that build it are on the same page, the future of America's cities will be much brighter than its past.
Pavement Maintenance
The First PAVE/X Smashed Expectations
The inaugural, premier event for pavement maintenance professionals launched this week in downtown San Antonio, TX, and the well attended event exceeded the highest estimates!
Construction Safety
How to Improve Your Heat-Related Illness Prevention Plan
In 2023 there were more "extreme heat" days in the United States that any previous year on record, and 2024 might still top even that. Facing facts about heat-related illness, and properly protecting asphalt workers is more important than ever before.
Asphalt Plants
Ammann America Relocates Headquarters
According to the company, strong customer growth has prompted Ammann America to secure a new, larger facility.
Infrastructure
Why States Should Prioritize Pavement Preservation
There’s no denying that many U.S. states simply do not make a priority of preserving their existing paved infrastructure.
Asphalt
How To Make Warm Mix Asphalt Work At Your Plant
Developed in the 1990s, Warm Mix Asphalt is anything but a new technology. However, there's still a fair amount of stigma associated with it in the road building industry, despite the Federal Highway Administration's pivot in 2010.
Top 30 Editor’s Choice
Submit New, Innovative Products for Asphalt Contractor's 2024 Top 30
Asphalt Contractor’s 2024 Top 30 Editor’s Choice Products award highlights the Top 30 innovations and technologies available to help asphalt contractors and producers work more efficiently, safely, sustainably, and profitably.
Infrastructure
A Future Without The Highway Trust Fund?
Electric vehicle ownership saw its biggest single year increase in 2023, and that trend is expected to continue, along with the decline of fossil fuel tax revenue. There's a ticking clock in Washington: The IIJA expires in 2026. Then what?
No Edge Lines
Paving Big Philly Style | No Edge Lines Season 1 Episode 3
Brandon heads to the "City of Brotherly Love" and tries his hand at a number of new asphalt and pavement maintenance jobs for the first time, while also getting the chance to see some of what makes Philadelphia great.
Asphalt
Software for Pavement Contractors
Emerging software products from Pittbos and PavementSoft are aimed at the unique workflow of asphalt contractors help to bid, win, and complete more work.
Asphalt
Using Data Analysis to Improve Pavement Smoothness
A case study on the Big Island of Hawaii reveals how a quality control department can use existing tools and equipment to support innovative project engineering.
Training & Education
Asphalt Contractor's 2023-2024 Training Guide
This guide offers training and education opportunities for contractors, a schedule of both in-person and remote sessions to expand employee skills and grow their value to your clients and your company.
Asphalt Pavers
Could Tamper Bar Screeds Find Broader Adoption in U.S. Market?
There are several different types and configurations of asphalt screeds used in the U.S. and around the world, but which is the best for what jobs? And why are some more popular than others?
Pavement Maintenance
9 Biggest Jobsite Headaches According To Asphalt Crews
When asked about the most frustrating things that can happen on a paving job, over 100 asphalt workers responded. Turns out, the biggest and most talked about problem might not be what you would expect.
Pavement Maintenance
Crash Course | No Edge Lines Season 1 Episode 2
How many things might go wrong if you let someone inexperienced drive your paver or your roller on the job for a day? Probably a lot! But how else can you really learn if you don't make some mistakes in the process?
Infrastructure
Road Construction Wages To Change Under New Labor Rules
Aided by labor groups, advocates, and other industry stakeholders’ comments, the Davis-Bacon Act sees the most comprehensive updates in 40 years. What immediate impacts will be felt by the road building and asphalt industry?
Pavement Maintenance
Brandon's First Time On A Paving Job | No Edge Lines Season 1 Episode 1
The editor for Pavement Magazine hasn't been on a jobsite yet?! In the first episode he visits with a crew in Islip, NY, called Royal Pavement Solutions. The two day visit was on a mobile home park, milling and filling all the local traffic roads.
Construction Technology
What Can ChatGPT AI Do For Asphalt Contractors?
The rise of "A.I." to the level of household name means everyone has an opinion, but true expertise is harder to come by. What can these algorithms do for the likes of our industry? Can they help you answer your asphalt or business questions?
Construction News
Highlights from the Celebration of Construction 2023
Clips and high points from around the National Mall as editor Brandon Noel stops and talks to some of the top brands and manufacturers in the industry about the first ever gathering of the construction industry in the nation's capitol.
Construction Technology
Trimble Talks Efficiency, Productivity of Roadworks Platform
Kevin Garcia talks to Brandon Noel, editor of Asphalt Contractor magazine, about the Roadworks platform, its automated/assist solutions for asphalt paving in both 3D and 2D.
Asphalt Pavers
Dynapac SD2500CS PROTAC
The SD2500CS PROTAC spray paver was primarily designed for the application of thin asphalt surface layers, and road repair and construction.
Asphalt Pavers
Up Close and Personal with the LeeBoy 8520C Electric Paver Prototype
One of the best parts of CONEXPO is getting to see first-person and hands-on what these new machines look like. After the company announced their new electric paver concept, their booth on the show floor was buzzing with foot traffic.
Asphalt Pavers
The LeeBoy 8520C Electric Paver Prototype Revealed at CONEXPO
In a partnership with General Motors and Powertrain Control Systems, LeeBoy wants to change your mind about going electric, as this prototype can meet future demands and the current standard set by the 8520C.