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FAA Researching Green Pavement for Airports
The FAA has not recommended the use of environmentally friendly airport pavement materials yet because research on the effects of aircraft tire pressure and heavy gear loads on green airport pavement materials has been limited. Continue reading
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Milestones – First Asphalt Road
On this day in 1870, a U.S. professor who had emigrated from Belgium applied an asphalt sheet to William Street in Newark, New Jersey as a test. It worked. Edward de Smedt, the inventor of asphalt mix, proved the value of his invention in combating the ubiquitous mud or dusty roads of the day. Continue reading
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Tagged asphalt, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, Edward de Smedt, Ken Zino, William Street
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