Rubblization (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rubblization is a construction and engineering technique that involves saving time and transportation costs by reducing existing concrete into rubble at its current location rather than hauling it to another location. Rubblization has two different applications. In road construction, specialized equipment is used to repave highways. The equipment drives along a lane of a highway and reduces the existing pavement into smaller pieces to create a crushed, high-quality aggregate base for the new pavement. This saves the expense of transporting the old payment to a disposal site and purchasing and transporting new base materials for the replacement paving. The result is a smoother pavement surface than would be obtained if a layer of asphalt were to be applied to the unbroken concrete surface. The technique has been used on roads since the late 1990s, and is also being used for concrete airport runways.