Pavement Sustainability

Sustainable practices are those that consider and balance economic, environmental and social well-being, evaluating all three factors over the life-cycle of the project. Sustainable design is simply about good engineering, working with limited resources to achieve design objectives while balancing competing, and often contradictory interests. Through adoption of sustainable practices, agencies can preserve and create transportation infrastructure that is more cost effective, environmentally benign, and socially beneficial.

Applied Pavement Technology can assists transportation agencies in adopting more sustainable practices by:

• Conducting introductory to advanced training on sustainability concepts and practices as they apply to the pavement life-cycle (e.g. material selection, design, construction, preservation, rehabilitation, and recycling).
• Assessing agency specification and practices to incorporate sustainability throughout the pavement life cycle.
• Designing sustainable pavements that incorporate recycled materials, low energy and CO2 emitting paving materials, cool and quiet pavement technologies, aesthetic qualities, and pervious surfaces.
• Evaluating the sustainability of alternative designs through application of life cycle assessment.

As leaders in pavement sustainability, Applied Pavement Technology’s experts (including professional engineers that are LEED Accredited Professionals) will work with you and your agency to implement change that will improve the economic, environmental, and social impact of your transportation network. Applied Pavement Technology will help your agency make pavement engineering decisions today that ensure a better tomorrow.