Pinellas Park, Fl
April, 2009 Projects
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Innovative repaving process is ‘HIP’ to Environmentalists
Facility Asset Management has contracted a Florida-based company to use environmentally friendly technology to repave Walt Disney World parking lots. This unique process is faster than conventional paving operations, is 90 percent cleaner in emissions, and uses 95 percent less gravel and 75 percent less petroleum. HIP Paving, repaves parking lots, roads and runways using 100 percent of the existing asphalt. Traditional repaving processes use equipment and trucks to tear up existing surfaces and carry the material to an asphalt plant, where machines mix about 25 percent of the material with rocks to create new asphalt to be trucked back to the site for pouring and processing. HIP Paving accomplishes all of these steps on the jobsite using a small train of moveable equipment. Two units heat the pavement to make it pliable, and a third unit applies more heat and mills out the top two inches of pavement. That milled material then goes into a main mill to be mixed with a recycled, oil-based rejuvenating agent, and an onsite lab tests the mix to ensure quality. Finally, the train lays the recycled asphalt. and steel rollers press it into the required road shape. The train can process 15 feet of asphalt a minute, and vehicles may travel on the finished surface within 30 minutes of paving. Dennis Young, Program Manager at Facility Asset Management, said cost savings are just part of the overall benefit of the process. “The benefits to our company are many,” Dennis said. “It’s a quicker operation HIP Paving makes one pass It’s really all done that day except for striping the surface. “The environmentalist aspect is that we’re using the same asphalt on the pavement itself. We don’t have a lot of trucks bringing asphalt to the site, so that eliminates traffic and emissions. We also eliminate the traditional tire tracks, which can be a Guest-show issue.” Crews recently used the HIP Paving process to repave lots at the