Every road crew faces the same challenge when tearing up an old highway: tons of cracked, weathered asphalt with nowhere to go. On US Highway 24 in Colorado Springs, crews found a clever way to reuse the old pavement and save time and money by grinding it up and using the material in place, rather than hauling it away and bringing in new material. (cuts the redundant "to replace it") The Colorado Department of Transportation reported that crews reopened all lanes of US 24 between Constitution Avenue and Garrett Road on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017, marking the end of a huge project in the works for a $5.7 million reconstruction job led by contractor Flatiron Constructors. The project shows how in-place asphalt recycling can work on a real-world, high-traffic highway project.
What in-place asphalt recycling means for a highway contract
