Discover what it's like to be a Materials Testing Technician at Bituminous Roadways, an industry-leading asphalt paving company dedicated to quality and innovation in the Twin Cities.

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When you’ve planned an asphalt paving project, you don’t want anything to get in the way, including the weather. While Minnesota weather can be difficult to deal with, the asphalt project professionals at Bituminous Roadways know how to work around rain and other inclement weather.

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Asphalt pavements are widely used for roads, parking lots, industrial surfaces, recreational surfaces, and walking trails. Asphalt pavements are made by combining rocks and sand to a particular recipe and then adding asphalt cement as the black sticky glue that holds the pavement together.

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Roads are intended for the safe and efficient transport of people and goods. Asphalt is the proven choice for roads. Ninety-four percent of all paved surfaces in the United States are paved with asphalt. Why is asphalt the number one choice by engineers worldwide?

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Porous Asphalt pavement offers developers and planners a new tool in their toolbox for managing storm water. These pavements, used mostly for parking lots, allow water to drain through the pavement surface into the stone recharge bed and infiltrate into the soils below the pavement, thus replacing impermeable surfaces for parking lots, roads, walking/biking paths and other applications. A typical porous pavement has an open-graded surface over an underlying stone bed allowing the infiltration process.

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Did you know in the early 1990’s, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Highway Administration reported to congress that asphalt pavement was America’s number one recycled product?

Who knew?

Bituminous Roadways, Inc. (BR) did. Well before this report, since the early 1970’s actually, BR has been incorporating recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) into newly produced asphalt mixtures. This sustainability practice has many economic, environmental and societal impacts.

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In recognition of National Collect Rocks Day on September 16, Bituminous Roadways, Inc. (BR) is sharing some information on what types of rocks are used to produce asphalt. BR uses a wide variety of aggregates, a.k.a. “Rocks,” to produce asphalt mixtures.

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