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"AdhesionXtreme® has been associated with Material Edge in the UK marketplace since November 2010. We have found the company to be particularly tenacious, reliable and diligent in support of our product line culminating in an increase of awareness and expansion of the AX brand in the UK Market. We would highly recommend Material Edge as a partner for any enterprise seeking penetration into the UK."
Posted by Chris Sullivan on Tuesday, 03 June 2014 at 14:58:33
Filed under: Products, Case Studies
The results show the 20-year predicted traffic loading in lane 1 and lane 2 to be 83msa and 19msa respectively.
The successful contractor was La Farge. The design life requirements for the trial section are 20 years.
GridSeal® trials of 210linear metres (936sq.m.) were installed between chainages 2990 and 3110 on the M11 Southbound Junctions 10 to 9 in the early morning of Thursday 8th November 2007. The installation commenced at 12.00am and finished at 12.31am.
Present during laying by Asphalt Reinforcement Services were Howard Cooke and Ian Walker of ARS and Chris Sullivan of Material Edge Ltd. Also in attendance were TRL representatives.
Treatment in the Hard shoulder was not part of the trial. The surface was planed down 60mm and 25mm of regulating was put back followed by 40mm surface course.
The weather throughout laying was dry and cool (about 5°C), the surface was swept clean using wet and dry vacuum road sweepers.
Plane off 110-115mm of existing asphalt leaving about 30mm over the CBM and sweep clean. Replaced with:
During laying the chipping lorry damaged a small 1m x 2m section of the GridSeal® resulting in an area of pad coat and GridSeal being removed and replaced by hand. This was located in the centre of lane 2 at Chainage 2990. The repair was installed to the satisfaction of those supervising.
Otherwise there were no observed difficulties in installation over subsequent overlaying of the GridSeal® system.
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Tags: asphalt, trial, highways
Posted by Chris Sullivan on Friday, 30 May 2014 at 10:00:24
Filed under: Products, Case Studies
The use of asphalt to generate solar heated water to defrost roads is an excellent subject for NCE to bring to the attention of your readers. In addition to the TRL trials using soil as the medium of storage (Trials begin on salt free road de icing system NCE last week) there is already a commercially available system being used in The Netherlands which utilises ground water in aquifers for storage of hot and cold water.
The first 2 Road Energy System® projects (as the Dutch process is called) in the UK are now imminently being constructed in Scotland by a soon to be signed UK licensee. A national surfacing contractor has also expressed interest in the system which utilises low temperature polymer modified asphalts to avoid melting the European patented plastic pipes and retaining grid system.
Undoubtedly interest will continue to grow when people fully realise the scope for generating heat and cold from asphalt pavements.
The Road Energy System® was developed jointly by a multi discipline engineering team comprising Ooms Avenhorn Holding (contractor), Tipspit and Vloerverwarming as a method for heating and cooling buildings. Following this process the ‘waste’ warm and cold water still has sufficient energy to defrost in winter roads, car parks, ramps, flyovers, aircraft standing and taxiways etc as well as cooling them during summer, thus prolonging the life of the pavement into the bargain. The system has successfully passed through extensive trials and developments over the last 8 years to reach major scheme status. The largest project to date at 10,000sq.m. is a flyover into Rotherdam docks where defrosting of the elevated structure is key to ensuring year round access.
Now that authorities and clients are looking to new housing, airport and industrial developments to be carbon neutral in terms of environmental impact the Road Energy System® provides a viable proven solution to low energy heating and cooling of buildings. Forward looking councils like Dundee have already identified schemes where the system maybe used in future. Airport authorities have also expressed interest with acres of black surfacing to utilise for collecting energy, which also require defrosting in winter, and large terminal buildings to heat and cool.
With NCE’s talent to reach the masses we would be delighted to show your readers real European cooperation involving multi disciplined engineering teams on UK based working projects in the near future.
Chris Sullivan I Eng.,M.I.H.T.
Managing Director
Material Edge Ltd
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Partnership changes at Material Edge
Be sure to check out our new Bridges product section.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge
18th LJMU Annual International Conference on Pavement Engineering and Infrastructure, 27-28 Feb. 2019, Liverpool, UK
The product is called RoofBond Stretch 60 and is used as a Lead free flashing on Chimneys, around rooflights and even on corrugated or "wrinkly tin" roofs.
