Typically, contractors choose to pave parking lots with asphalt because of quicker installation times and ... tends to soften in extreme heat or the pavement can become too hot to touch.

Xianming Shi, civil and architectural engineering department chair at the University of Miami, was awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to research how to turn farming byproducts ...

“The porous pavement installation brought additional challenges ... “The biggest challenge is laying the porous asphalt on ¾” drainage stone versus paving on a standard roadbase stone.