Florida About To Test Paving Process That Has European Roots
FAST Process is three times faster. (Photo courtesy of E.J. Breneman Inc.)
FDOT bid a 6.2-mile section of U.S. 27 last October near Tampa requiring the use of NovaChip a paving process that places an ultra-thin coarse-aggregate hot mix over a special polymer-modified emulsified asphalt membrane. The Tampa office of APAC-Florida Inc. won the $2.9-million U.S. 27 contract and will begin work this spring. FDOT plans to use this stretch of road in south-central Florida to compare NovaChip with its current mix, the open-graded friction course. The project has five test sections.