Contractor A E Yates teamed up with supplier Aggregate Industries and designers at Amey to deliver the landmark dual carriageway resurfacing project between M6 junction 6 and Brettarg Holt.
Highways England set highly ambitious carbon reduction targets that were met with extensive asphalt recycling through a Foamix asphalt.
Existing road surface planings were recycled and encapsulated back into the pavement by producing a site batched cold recycled asphalt using Aggregates Industries SuperLow asphalt.
This approach captured a huge 43% carbon reduction, compared with conventional resurfacing methods.
In total, 50,000 tonnes of material was extracted from the original pavement and 39,000 tonnes recycled over the course of just six weeks.
This included 11,600 tonnes of asphalt and 27,000 tonnes of foamix laid using wide pavers.
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