Author : Philip Thomas Sherwood
Release : 2001
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Alternative Materials in Road Construction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alternative Materials in Road Construction write by Philip Thomas Sherwood. This book was released on 2001. Alternative Materials in Road Construction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the landfill tax and the introduction of a tax on the use of primary aggregates, increasing financial pressure is now being exerted on highway engineers to provide the most economic alternatives to naturally-occurring roadmaking materials. Alternative materials in road construction: Second edition, provides practical guidance in the selection of substitute materials, including the economic and technical considerations of their use and advice on the benefits and pitfalls of each material. This fully revised second edition includes: Extensively re-written and updated sections on classification and sources Specifications of road making materials and environmental and economic considerations Enlarged sections on construction and demolition wastes to take account of the increasing concern at the depletion of natural resources and the much greater emphasis on recycling A new chapter on Government and EC Policy with respect to environmental damage and recycling Alternative materials in road construction: Second edition is divided into three parts. Part 1 discusses the demand and requirements of road making materials and the specifications that they have to meet if they are to give sa