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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #84 Asphalt of the Future
Description: Have you ever walked past a newly surfaced road, perhaps around the corner from your house… and wondered when it will next be resurfaced? Side roads often seem to be in poor condition, and if you live in England, you probably will not see it resurfaced again in your lifetime. The average interval is 119 years.
In this episode we have partnered with Shell to learn about a new trial project that could revolutionise the durability of the UK’s deteriorating roads, where maintenance budgets comprise ‘a smaller bite of a smaller slice of a smaller cake’ of governme...