Vermont Route 14 Asphalt Reclaimation Road Project

Before

After

The state of Vermont did their first trial with FORTA-FI® in 2013.  VT 14 was selected as it had a tremendous amount of rutting and reflective cracking.  Limited funds made it not possible to do full depth reclamation, therefore VTrans was looking to extend the life of the overlay.  The road was leveled with a 5/8” shim, then a 1” overlay of Type IV – 50 Blow Marshall Bituminous Concrete Pavement was placed using 1,000 pounds of FORTA-FI at one pound of fiber per ton of asphalt followed by equivalent paving using non-fiber reinforced asphalt as a comparison.  VTrans will be studying the performance of this road over the next several years.  

Project Details:

● Project Owner: VTrans (State of Vermont, Agency of Transportation)

● Tonnage: 1,000
● Engineer/Specifier: VTrans
● Asphalt Contractor: Frank W. Whitcomb
● Owner Type: DOT

● Type of mix:Dense grade

● Project type:Overlay

● Reason for use:Extend life of pavement, reduce reflective cracking, reduce rutting

● Type of plant and how fiber was added:batch plant, manually added

● Fiber used:WMA

● Replacement for:none

For more information, please visit: www.forta-fi.com