Rural roads constitute a significant proportion of the total road network in most developing countries. In so doing, they contribute significantly to poverty reduction, through the services they provide to the poor and to priority social and economic sectors, and...
A tire reuse technology, Confined Aggregate Concrete, recently won the first American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Grand Challenge Infrastructure Innovation Contest for most feasible green engineering idea. What is Confined Aggregate Concrete? Confined Aggregate...
Sam Bonasso, the inventor of the Mechanical Concrete design, is in Texas this week illustrating the tire-derived-geo-cylinder confinement system that has been put to use in West Virginia. Commissioned to find a solution for the millions of old tires, Bonasso, a civil...
County Takes Green Approach to Roadbuilding The Guadalupe County Road and Bridge department is installing a new kind of roadbed on a section of Elm Creek Road using recycled tires to test a road building process that could save thousands in installation and...
MORGANTOWN, WV (October 3, 2012) – In the Ft. Martin/Maidsville area, over 700,000 coal trucks carrying 80,000 pound loads have used Mechanical Concrete® based industrial roads in the last 22 months with excellent results. “Reduced maintenance and normal surface...
Simple, Green Construction Technology Improves Roadbed Carrying Capacity,Delivering Outstanding Performance and Value Click for a copy of the presentation slide deck in PDF format. SEVEN SPRINGS RESORT, PA (February 15,2012) – Pennsylvania Independent Oil and...
