The bio-based solution for your asphalt – and your budget

from Ops Talk Magazine Spring 2011

Keep fit through play

– and your budget

BY GORDON OLIVER

If you knew that spending one dollar would save you thousands of dollars in the future, would you spend it?

Over the last decade, the government has started embracing these strategies in maintaining infrastructure, which have shifted toward money-saving preventive maintenance systems. Vehicle owners see this as common sense. Most drivers service their vehicles regularly; the others wait until smoke explodes out from under the hood. Changing the oil might cost a few dollars, but replacing the engine is the more expensive alternative.

Asphalt can be treated the same way. There are factors that put stress on the binding properties of asphalt every day that are unavoidable; the sun, salt, water and traffic slowly break down the integrity of asphalt. Most other infrastructure materials are treated with a protectant to minimize the effect of these problems; wood is painted or stained, concrete is finished or sealed, and metal is coated. The technology now exists to protect asphalt in a very similar manner, which will reduce repair costs and also extend the total life cycle of the asphalt surface. In the past, parking lots have been left alone until major problems appeared, costing thousands of dollars to repair or resurface. In St. Louis ten years ago, BioSpan Technologies, Inc. created the

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solution to these problems: RePLAY. After extensive testing north of the border, RePLAY is now available across Canada. Several customers in British Columbia and Alberta have already made RePLAY a major part of their asphalt maintenance programs. Simply put, RePLAY is a bio-based product made from agricultural oils and polymers that will prevent the asphalt from breaking down.

“Including many of the schools in Edmonton, there have been hundreds of thousands of square-metres of parking lots treated with RePLAY in B.C, Alberta, and Saskatchewan,” says Bio Protection Solutions (BPS) operations director Corey Ellis. “We like working with schools because we provide such a great value and really do save our clients money. Every cent wasted on patching and asphalt repair could be better spent in other areas – in the classroom, on the children.”

“Edmonton Public Schools is using an asphalt surface treatment called RePLAY to extend asphalt life. This product has been sprayed on a number of district school parking lots and roadways,” states an official statement from www.enviromatters.epsb.ca.

Preventative maintenance is always a better way to maintain any asset. The city of Vancouver is one of the testing grounds for RePLAY on roads. When asked why the city is interested in RePLAY, John Marino, superintendent of the streets – operations branch for the City of Vancouver, stated, “The fact that it [RePLAY] is bio-based, we like to encourage those things... and if it can preserve the asphalt, the savings to the city are huge in the long term.”