Researchers at Arizona State University have developed an algae-based binder that, when mixed into asphalt, can reduce the toxicity of road fumes by about 100 times. The innovation also strengthens ...

It’s not often that pig manure is associated with asphalt, but current research may soon change that. Ellie Fini, a civil engineer, received funding from the National Science Foundation to support the ...

Europe is electrifying its vehicles while the roads beneath them remain almost entirely fossil-dependent. A pilot scheme in northern Spain shows that bio-based binders can cut bitumen's carbon ...

Engineering contractor Roelofs has started work on a road section made of a bio-asphalt with a plant-based lignin binding agent, which is said to offer a “significant CO2 reduction” in road building.

If you gathered all the pavement in Phoenix, Arizona, and piled it into one place, it would blanket San Francisco four times ...

Construction of a 425-meter-long experimental lane was completed in March in the Cauê mine, belonging to the mining company Vale, in Itabira, Minas Gerais State. Over the next two years the site will ...