2023 Paving Awards winners were celebrated at WAPA’s 69th Annual Meeting on November 3rd.  A wide range of “Best of the Best” awards were presented to Washington state’s premier asphalt paving companies alongside the private sector and public owners of the projects.

The National Asphalt Pavement Assocation (NAPA) has added a new AI feature to quickly answer asphalt pavement and production questions with detail that may have been difficult to collect in the past.  Try the artificial intelligence advantage when you have in-depth questions about asphalt!

October 13, 2023 – Chris Christopher, the Director of the WSDOT Construction Division announced today that Mohamad Nimeri, P.E., Ph.D will join WSDOT as its State Pavement Engineer on November 1st.

The Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA – www.driveasphalt.com) has announced its newest awards (2021) for Perpetual Pavements.  New pavements that are designed for a 50-year life and that meet PerRoad design criteria are eligible for the APA Perpetual Pavement By Design award …

Welcome to the Washington Asphalt Pavement Association’s Asphalt Pavement Guide.  This Guide will provide you with a general overview of hot mix asphalt (HMA) pavement from materials to design to construction to maintenance.  It is intended to assist those who work in any way with …

There are over 4.05 million public centerline road miles (8.52 million lane miles) in the U.S. and of this, 2.50 million miles (or 63 percent) are paved (FHWA 2009).  About 70 percent of Washington State roads are paved.  Nearly 94% of the paved roads in the U.S. are paved with asphalt …

Asphalt Pavement, the national industry magazine of the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), is published six times per year.  The current edition and past editions are available at the link provided: Asphalt Pavement To view past issues of Asphalt Pavement, visit the NAPA …

The asphalt industry has a long history of using greenhouse gas reducing materials such as reclaimed asphalt pavement, recycled tire rubber, and more to build ever more sustainable roads. As countries stop importing waste plastics, the question of “What to do with our plastic waste?” …