The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities is on the front line when it comes to promoting new technologies that give them continuous, full-coverage asphalt pavement density testing ...

Over 500 million tons of HMA are placed in the United States each year so it's important that the material be properly sampled and tested during construction to ensure satisfactory performance. When ...

To illustrate the intelligent-compaction (IC) roller’s potential to increase production, Kevin Garcia—road and paving construction segment manager for Trimble Navigation—relates an experiment Trimble ...

Although the intelligent-compaction (IC) concept as applied to asphalt rollers has its critics, Bomag has a number of its BW190AD-4 HF models operating in North America with the company's Asphalt ...

Hamm is now expanding Smart Compact to incorporate an essential measured value – real-time asphalt density. Industry experts agree that it is the decisive parameter for qualitative assessment during ...

Newfoundland and Labrador's transportation department is about to begin testing different types of asphalt to see which one holds up best to the province's road conditions. Earlier this year, the ...