About 15 per cent of the mix is reused pavement from the Wellington Airport runway. “We’re not having to use new resources, crushing new aggregate and bitumen, and it means it’s not going into the landfill, we’ve brought in about 13K tonne, which if it wasn’t recycled would end up in one of the local landfills,” Duncan Mundell, of Fulton Hogan, said.
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Paving work on Transmission Gully is near the halfway point. The logistics of getting the asphalt over the saddle to the road is a tightly choreographed dance. Asphalt is dropped out of the plant into loading trucks at about 180 degrees Celsius and must be laid at around 165 C, giving a limited time to get the molten rock over the hill and to the paving site.