2024 WAPA Paving Award Winners Honored

2024 Paving Awards winners were celebrated at WAPA’s 70th Annual Meeting on November 15th.  A wide range of the “Best of the Best” paving awards were presented to Washington state’s premier asphalt paving companies alongside the public and private sector owners of the projects.

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Try Asphalt’s New Chat Bot! – Hey NAPA

The National Asphalt Pavement Assocation (NAPA) has added a new AI feature to quickly answer asphalt pavement and production questions with detail that may have been difficult to collect in the past.  Try the artificial intelligence advantage when you have in-depth questions about asphalt!
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WSDOT Wins APA “By Design” & “By Conversion” Perpetual Pavement Awards Again!

The Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA – www.driveasphalt.com) has announced its newest awards (2024) for Perpetual Pavements.  New pavements that are designed for a 50-year life and that meet PerRoad design criteria are eligible for the APA Perpetual Pavement By Design award …

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News Release: WSDOT Earns Three Perpetual Pavement Awards

Asphalt Pavement Alliance Announces Winners of 2024 Perpetual Pavement Award (PPA) The Washington State Dept. of Transportation was notified on April 16th, 2025 that it has won three 2024 PPAs from the Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA). The award celebrates long-life asphalt pavements from …

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Pavement Guide

Welcome to the Washington Asphalt Pavement Association’s Asphalt Pavement Guide.  This Guide will provide you with a general overview of hot mix asphalt (HMA) pavement from materials to design to construction to maintenance.  It is intended to assist those who work in any way with …
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Pavement Facts

There are over 4.05 million public centerline road miles (8.52 million lane miles) in the U.S. and of this, 2.50 million miles (or 63 percent) are paved (FHWA 2009).  About 70 percent of Washington State roads are paved.  Nearly 94% of the paved roads in the U.S. are paved with asphalt …
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Asphalt Pavement Magazine – Current Edition

Asphalt Pavement, the national industry magazine of the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), is published six times per year.  The current edition and past editions are available at the link provided: Asphalt Pavement To view past issues of Asphalt Pavement, visit the NAPA …
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Plastics in Asphalt – Current State of Practice

The asphalt industry has a long history of using greenhouse gas reducing materials such as reclaimed asphalt pavement, recycled tire rubber, and more to build ever more sustainable roads. As countries stop importing waste plastics, the question of “What to do with our plastic waste?” …
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Asphalt Pavements Perform! APA & FHWA Videos

When it comes to flexibility, asphalt pavements provide Performance for a Lifetime. Watch this quick APA video highlighting the sustainability, innovation, value and flexibility of today’s asphalt …
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ECONOMICS
Life Cycle Cost
Today’s current national and local economic conditions – combining reduced funding with high infrastructure needs – have elevated the importance of prudent spending …
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ENVIRONMENT
Sustainable Pavement
Asphalt is the sustainable material for constructing pavements. From the production of the paving material, to the placement of the pavement on the road …
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ENGINEERING
Perpetual Pavement
The Perpetual Pavement concept was first articulated in 2000 and the concept has rapidly gained acceptance. The APA’s newest technical document on the subject …
The Perpetual Pavement concept was first articulated in 2000 and the concept has rapidly gained acceptance. The APA’s newest technical document on the subject …
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POLICY
Livable Communities
There is no doubt that societal trends and economic realities will shape the pavement market going forward. Those driving factors include public funding …
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EVENTS
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