WHAT TO EXPECT ON SULPHUR/ASPHALT JOBS

Good planning and supervision in the plant and on the jobsite are critical to the success of road jobs using sulphur-extended asphalt. Inadequate production of sulphur in eastern Canada, price and temperature in the batch plant are present problems. But, since sulphur/asphalt can help reduce road costs, roadbuilders can expect more of this work. Sulphur/asphalt material was found to perform as well as any conventional material, and in cold weather too. The major precaution is that the mixing temperature in the batch plant must not be too high. (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Southam Business Publications Limited

  1450 Don Mills Road
  Don Mills, ONo,   Canada 
• Publication Date: 1981-3

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 12-14
• Serial:
  • Engineering and Contract Record
  • Volume: 94
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Southam Business Publications

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bitumen; Cold weather; Construction management; Construction sites; Costs; Durability; Manufactures; Mixers; Mixing; Mixing plants; Savings; Sulfur; Sulfur asphalt; Surveillance; Temperature
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• Old TRIS Terms: Mixing temperature
• ITRD Terms: 4963: Bitumen; 8018: Canada; 224: Cost; 5910: Durability; 3647: Manufacture; 3649: Mixer; 3648: Mixing plant; 7109: Sulphur; 9101: Surveillance; 6722: Temperature
• Subject Areas: Construction; Finance; Highways; Materials; I31: Bituminous Binders and Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00345788
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 27 1982 12:00AM