Concrete Pavement

Concrete is the premiere material for pavements. Whether it’s city streets, parking lots, interstate highways or runways and aprons at the airport, concrete pavement is able to handle the load. Prairie Material provides quality concrete for any paving project.

Concrete has many qualities that make it ideal for pavements:

Durability - Concrete pavements can be designed to last from 10 to 50 years, depending upon the system needs.

In fact, Wacker Drive in Chicago has been designed to last 100 years.

Versatility - Concrete pavement can be designed to handle loads from lightly trafficked suburban streets and sidewalks to runways that support 850,000 pound aircraft. Concrete supports heavy loads with less deformation than asphalt.

Cost Effectiveness - Concrete roads’ long life span, combined with minimum maintenance requirements, create great long term value.

Safety - Concrete reflects light (33% to 50% more light than asphalt), which increases visibility, while the surface grip built into highway finishes provides reliable traction and greater skid control.

Fast Construction - Fast-track paving techniques using high-early-strength concrete mix allows a road to reopen in as few as 12 hours. This is especially helpful for city street paving because it reduces the traffic restriction time on busy urban routes.

Environmentally Friendly - Modern concrete roads are smooth-riding, energy-saving, cooler, and quiet. In urban areas, concrete pavements, together with trees, can reduce summer temperatures by as much as ten degrees. Concrete pavements can also be crushed in place and reused in the new road - both for road surfaces and bases.

Ideal for Asphalt Rehabilitation - Whitetopping is a cost-effective method of rehabbing old pavements by placing a thin layer of high-strength, fiber-reinforced concrete over prepared asphalt.