Tarmac has completed a road reconstruction project using recycled materials, without the need to sub-contract any part of the job.
Its first ‘start-to-finish’ recycling contract was a resurfacing job on two one-kilometre stretches in Coventry.
Tarmac used a processing plant to handle the recovered planings, mixed them to produce a foamed bitumen-based asphalt, then re-laid them as the sub-base layer.
Paul Fleetham, Tarmac’s national contracting director, claimed that the completion represented ‘a breakthrough in sustainable pavement technology’.