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| Old roman road |
from our office. As the name suggests, this
road was built by the Romans.
Expert estimates the completion of the road,
approximately 100 km long, in the year
200 AD. This road is about 1820 years old
and is still used as a country road today,
despite a large number of local European wars
and two world wars in these 1820 years. The
structure of this Roman road was never changed,
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| Roman road structure |
asphalt layer.
If we look at our "state-of-the-art" roads in
most countries of the world today, it can
easily be said that none of these roads will
last for a century. In many cities, the
pavement lasts less than 10 years and in
some highly developed countries of the
world, the pavement lasts less than a year.
Sad but true.
What was important for these Roman streets?
It was the underground structure and the road
surfaces that have survived these roads for so
long. The Romans already knew concrete, but
not only as a road surface, but also as part of
the underground structure.
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| Roman road today |
high quality road surface, modern roads cannot
get better but only worse than the Roman roads.
UHPC road surfaces, whether as UHPC concrete
or as UHPC Phalt surfaces, are extremely resistant
and are far superior to all previous road surfaces,
but they still need a correct, stable substructure.
This quality underground structure is particularly
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| Modern road structure |
important for industrial roads and industrial storage
areas.
The interesting thing is that the layer thickness of
a modern, efficient road construction corresponds
in its total layer thickness to that of Roman roads.
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