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Pavement Warranties Yield Innovation, Quality
Faced with staff and budget shrinkages and the need to increase pavement quality and life-cycle performance, some State highway agencies are finding that pavement warranties offer an alternative way to assure performance. These warranties guarantee the integrity of the product and the contractor's responsibility to repair or replace defects for a defined period.

Pavement Warranties: Learning from the European Experience
Does your road come with a warranty? Traditional U.S. construction contracts have typically required contractors to provide a project warranty for just 1 year following construction completion. Highway agencies are now increasingly requesting longer term warranty contracts on large asphalt paving projects, with the goal of improving pavement performance and reducing life-cycle costs. Four- and 5-year warranties are already common in Europe, where some highway agencies have been using them for more than 40 years.

Meet the New Mobile Asphalt Lab
The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) new and improved mobile asphalt laboratory will be hitting the road soon with an array of state-of-the-art technologies and the goal of promoting long life asphalt pavements for the 21st century.

Keeping Up with Context Sensitive Design
As more States embrace a context sensitive design (CSD) or context sensitive solutions (CSS) approach to building roads, the demand for CSD/CSS training and guidance has also increased. This article contains the list of CSD/CSS resources currently available.

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