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FDOT
Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA) announced that the
Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has won a Perpetual Pavement Award (PPA). The 2020 award is for a 3.012-mi. section of a two-lane roadway on State Road 40 in Marion County that was originally constructed in 1954.
This is the 11th PPA in as many years for FDOT.
To qualify for this prestigious award, a pavement must be at least 35 years old and never experienced a structural failure. The average interval between the resurfacing of the winning pavement must be no less than 13 years. The pavement must demonstrate the characteristics expected from long-life asphalt pavements: excellence in design, quality in construction and value for the traveling public.
Using Reclaimed Asphalt for Pavement Preservation Surface Treatments
Agencies and practitioners have adapted typical practices to get similar performance from RAP as compared to virgin aggregates on their pavement preservation projects
May 17, 2021
At the end of 2020, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) released a new report that outlines the success of using Reclaimed Asphalt Pavements (RAP) in pavement preservation treatments. The FHWA documented case studies, best practices, applicable tests, costs and specifications for RAP in pavement-preservation treatments, such as chip sealing, slurry sealing and microsurfacing.
Greg Duncan, senior engineer at Applied Pavement Technology, Inc., recently presented a webinar with the FHWA and described how agencies and practitioners have adapted typical practices to get similar performance with RAP as compared to virgin aggregates with preservation treatments.
Corey Davis and
Vincent Sawyer recently were hired as lawyers for
Neighborhood Preservation Inc., an organization that promotes neighborhood revitalization by collaboratively developing practical and sustainable resolutions to blighted properties and to the systems that lead to widespread neglect, vacancy and abandonment of real estate. It focuses on policy advocacy and implementing/documenting replicable comprehensive neighborhood improvement projects. Davis is a staff attorney and started his work on the chronic nuisance ordinance. He s also involved on an ongoing project to replace a dilapidated house with a mini park in the Vollintine-Evergreen neighborhood. Sawyer is involved with community partners to improve the living conditions of residents in distressed and underserved neighborhoods through anti-blight interventions, neighborhood maintenance, community development efforts, legal research and analysis through the Shelby County Environmental Court. He is also the co-cha