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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

The main drive of the Stonegate development in Scottsdale, AZ required repaving in May 2013. The approach that consultant PMIS specified was full removal of the existing 2.5” AC followed by paving a single lift of 2.5” FORTAfied® asphalt.

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

The City of Kingman selected FORTA-FI® reinforced asphalt on the busiest section of the busiest road in the City.

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The entire parking lot was replaced with FORTA-FI® reinforced asphalt. The pavement section was reduced to 2” in the parking stalls and 3” in the drive lanes.

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

Hot mix asphalt reinforced with FORTA-FI® was used in a 10” full-depth asphalt concrete section in a digout area on Harbor Blvd.

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

Paving took place over the extremely distressed existing asphalt. FORTA-FI® reinforcement was chosen as a cost effective alternative to full depth removal and replacement.

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

Reinforcement with FORTA-FI® was used in this 2” overlay with edge milling to help delay reflective cracking and maximize the useable life of this roadway surface.

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

Maverick USA, Inc. had severe fatigue cracking throughout their parking lot and their maintenance entry/exit ways. When considering rehabilitation options, they selected a FORTA-FI® reinforced asphalt solution over other pavement enhancing technologies due to the reduced installation time. 

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

Maryland DOT typically uses gap graded asphalt on their surface mixes to combat reflective cracking. In order to find a superior method, they set up an experimental project on US 40 in Washington County near Hagerstown, MD to evaluate three surface mixes.

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

FORTA-FI® was used in a 1.5” porous friction course on this runway rehabilitation project to reduce cracking and raveling caused by weather extremes and snow plowing.

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

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 is looking to extend the life of the overlay.

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

VDOT placed three different mixes on various subdivision streets throughout Chester, VA. The roads all have similar traffic loads, with similar fatigue and alligator cracking issues, and run parallel to each other. Two of the roads were used as a control and the third was paved using FORTA-FI®.

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

400 tons of HMA was placed on Airport Road, the entrance to the Venango Regional Airport from Pittsburgh Road in Franklin, PA.

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

West Central Avenue and West Spring Street in Titusville, PA., consisted of an asphalt overlay on an old brick pavement base. The durability of previous overlays did not meet expected pavement life. Removing or replacing the brick was not an option due to the cost.

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded HMA

A $ 7.7 million construction project for the Tarentum Bridge began in 2012 with “The main driver of the project being the condition of the existing pavement and to restore ride quality” according to PennDOT spokesman Jim Stuzzi. In August 2013 the 1,776 foot bridge was resurfaced using a 1/2” FJ scratch course and then a 1 1/2” wearing course was placed using PG76-22 with 3/4” FORTA-FI® high tensile strength fibers.

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FORTA-FI® - Dense Graded WMA

PennDOT District 2-0 chose a one mile stretch of SR 4014 as a test section for FORTA-FI®. Grannas Brothers produced a PG64-22 WMA using FORTA-FI® warm mix fibers and the 9.5mm wearing course was placed as a 1 1/2” overlay in Clearfield County on a 0.3 to < 3 million ESAL road.