While both asphalt and concrete driveways offer a durable surface, each has its own benefits, characteristics, aesthetics, maintenance requirements, and price. When deciding on which type of material ...

If you haven’t repaved your driveway or parking lot yet, now might be the time to do so. Over the past 18 months, asphalt prices have plummeted from about $600 to a ton to about $300 a ton. That’s ...

Both asphalt and concrete advocates expect increases in paving activity overall, and both note that asphalt prices haven't gone down in conjunction with oil prices as quickly as in the past. While ...

Municipalities in the midst of summer paving programs across the region are feeling the impact of the rise in asphalt prices. “It is definitely putting a strain on our budget, what we are able to do ...

Illustrating that this is one of the best times in the past decade to invest in transportation projects, state departments of transportation across the country are reporting the lowest August prices ...

The war in Iraq, combined with tight U.S. inventories in a rebounding economy, have pushed crude oil prices to levels that have not been seen in decades. While prices have eased somewhat recently, ...

A 40 percent increase in the price for asphalt is threatening to delay some Olmsted County road projects by a year or longer. Two pavement-overlay projects are in jeopardy of being moved off the 2006 ...

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The global bitumen market is forecast to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of four percent between 2015 to 2020, and the world’s largest energy traders such as the Vitol Group and the ...

Costs for recovering bitumen with in situ methods continue to decline, and new technologies are bound to reduce costs further, according to Harbir Chhina, executive vice-president enhanced oil ...