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September Blog of the Month: Wolf Paving

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IGGA Participates in National Pavement Preservation Conference

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The first National Pavement Preservation Conference and demonstration was held in Nashville.

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Texas Considers Outsourcing Highway Maintenance Again

The Texas DOT is claiming outsourcing some routine highway maintenance could save up to $120 million over five years, but an earlier attempt at outsourcing returned disappointing results

Wirtgen to Exhibit at National Pavement Expo 2013

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NCAT Tests Preservation Techniques

Myriad preservation methods, including slurry, micro surfacing, chip sealing and more, will be researched during the three-year study

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ISSA Hosts 26th Annual Hands-On Slurry Systems Workshop & 51st Annual Convention

International Slurry Surfacing Association (ISSA)

Want to Assure Optimum Performance of Your Sealer (and Paint)?

3 Tips to Pavement Sealer Success

There’s a difference between sealer curing and sealer drying. To learn what it is and why it’s important to your job check out STAR President Girish Dubey’s article “How to Know When Your Sealcoat is Dried and Cured” in the August/September issue of Pavement Maintenance & Reconstruction.

BOMAG to Exhibit at National Pavement Expo 2013

BOMAG is back at NPE

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Training & Education

How to Know When Your Sealcoat is Dried and Cured

cumulative water loss happens rapidly in the early stages of film drying—in other words the first 80-90% of the film dries relatively fast, but the release of the last 15-20% of water takes much longer, requiring the right set of ambient and pavement conditions. For optimum performance, all water must leave the film: 80-90% is not good enough.

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Jonathan Holmes says Georgis Tech Research Insititute is 12 to 18 months away from a fieldable system, 'conditional on the additional research required to get there. We feel a full-scale system (14-foot-wide) needs to be built and tested prior to being ready, but we do not yet have the funding required to build a full-lane system,' he said.

How Nashville Preserves its Pavement

Willingness to test new materials, dedication to preservation drive Donald Reid’s program to preserve Nashville roads

Donald Reid says that when he does approve a test for Nashville he usually does it in conjunction with the Tennessee DOT. “It’s really a joint effort because it’s easier for me to find a road to put something down on that it is for the state, and we both benefit from whatever we learn from the test,” he says.

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