Compare The Asphalt Choices Of Green Paving Contractors

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Examine the sustainability of asphalt products

In the 21st century, the asphalt industry reclaims, reuses, and recycles almost a hundred tons of its own asphalt product every year - making asphalt America’s most recycled product and saving the American taxpayer nearly $2 billion per year. The ongoing effort by green paving contractors and the process of recycling asphalt pavements also saves a great deal of landfill space.

Materials recycled from other industries are also routinely mixed into asphalt pavements, further improving asphalt’s sustainability. Some of these products include old tires, glass products, old roofing shingles, and the slag from blast furnaces.

Two asphalt choices are the most preferred paving materials for green paving contractors, and those are:

Warm-mix porous asphalt, which allows green paving contractors to lower the temperature at which the paving material is mixed and placed, which cuts fuel consumption and decreases the amount of greenhouse gases.
Porous asphalt, which gives green paving contractors an all-natural material with one big difference - it allows ...
... water to flow through it and into the ground beneath where it is retained and slowly filtered through the earth and back into the water supply.

Both of these asphalt choices typically contain a high amount of recycled materials, which improves their green rating.

What are the benefits of warm-mix asphalt to green paving contractors?

Warm-mix asphalt delivers a number of benefits that are well-known to green paving contractors, including:

A workable material that can be applied in cooler weather, which extends the paving season.
It’s easier to compact and get the required density - all without the fuel and energy consumption required of conventional hot-mix asphalt options.
Excellent tensile strength ratios in hot and cold weather, which means that warm-mix asphalt pavements deliver great strength and durability.

Why is porous asphalt a green paving contractor’s ideal surface?
There are a number of reasons that porous asphalt is considered the ideal material for green paving surfaces, including the following:

Even after 20 years, porous pavements show little cracking and pot-holing, consistently draining water effectively.
Porous asphalt delivers a ‘cooler’ paving surface by replenishing local water tables rather than forcing the runoff from rain and snow into the storm sewers.
In areas where storm water impact fees are imposed by local governments, those fees are reduced by porous asphalt surfaces.

In addition, porous asphalt does not require proprietary ingredients or require the green paving contractor to have special certifications.

HMA Contracting Corp.has extensive experience of handling commercial and custom paving projects.We are one of the leading asphalt paving company in New York. For construction site excavation, visit our website.

This article is authored by the content management team at HMA Contracting. HMA Contracting is a leading green paving contractor that’s been in business for nearly twenty years. We serve the communities of upstate New York delivering top quality pavements for driveways, sidewalks, tennis court construction, and more. Our customers are residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and municipal property owners.