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Asphalt paving operation under roadway quality assurance testing
Service · Pavement

Roadway work, verified lane by lane.

Pavement condition surveys, coring, mix verification and in-place compaction testing — on agency programs where the specification, the night window and the paperwork are all fixed.

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Agency programs · night work · two regions
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The Brief

Pavement fails from the bottom. The testing has to happen before it is buried.

Subgrade support, base compaction, mix temperature and rolling pattern all determine how long a road lasts — and every one of them is only measurable in a window that closes when the next lift goes down.

We staff paving operations on the schedule the work actually runs, including nights and weekends, and report against the agency's specification in the agency's format.

Tested Hot. Reported Cold.

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Capabilities

What we test on the roadway.

Condition assessment before design, and quality assurance while the mat is still hot.

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Condition surveys
Distress mapping, rutting and cracking inventory to support rehabilitation scoping and budgeting.
Assessment
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Pavement coring
Full-depth cores to establish existing section, layer thickness and bond between lifts.
Coring
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Mix verification
Extraction and gradation, binder content, air voids and theoretical maximum density on production samples.
Laboratory
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In-place compaction
Nuclear and core density on the finished mat, with mix temperature and rolling pattern recorded.
Field
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Subgrade & base
Proof rolling observation, base course density and moisture control before paving begins.
Earthwork
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Concrete pavement & curb
Rigid pavement, sidewalk and curb testing including strength, air content and thickness verification.
Rigid pavement
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Three failures, three different fixes.

Walk the segment. Alligator cracking, rutting and raveling read as one worn road until they are recorded separately, and each one points somewhere different.

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What a pavement condition survey records

    Three distresses, three different causes
    DistressWhat it tells the engineer

    Pavement condition surveys by Universal Testing & Inspection Services, Inc., an AASHTO/CCRL-accredited construction materials testing firm — West Babylon, NY · Miami, FL · est. 1992.

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    Deliverables

    What the agency receives.

    DAILY
    Daily paving report
    Tonnage, station limits, temperatures, rolling pattern and density results for the shift.
    CORE
    Core results
    Thickness and density by core location, referenced to stationing for pay adjustment.
    MIX
    Mix compliance
    Production sample results against the approved job mix formula and tolerance bands.
    SURVEY
    Condition report
    Distress inventory and existing section, with rehabilitation options and quantities.
    NCR
    Non-conformance notice
    Immediate notice when a lot falls outside specification, while corrective work is still possible.
    CLOSE
    Project closeout
    The assembled testing record in the agency's required submittal format.
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    How We Work

    On the shift the paving actually runs.

    Roadway testing is a logistics problem as much as a technical one — the window does not move for us.

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    Specification review
    We read the agency specification and confirm sampling frequency, lot sizes and reporting format before the first shift.
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    Mix & plant approval
    Job mix formulas are verified against the specification and plant production is sampled for conformance.
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    Shift coverage
    Technicians work the paving shift — nights, weekends and staged lane closures included — and test as the mat is placed.
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    Verification coring
    Cores confirm thickness and density by lot, tied to stationing so pay quantities are defensible.
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    Reporting & closeout
    Results are reported in the agency's format and assembled into the closeout submittal.

    A density result that arrives after the roller has left the site is a statistic, not a control.

    Where to next

    Paving on an agency program?

    Send the specification and the paving schedule. We will confirm sampling frequency and shift coverage within one business day.