A CONSTRUCTION road was needed for a new housing development to be built in Ostholstein, Germany. The road had to be solid, with a strong asphalt base layer for heavy construction vehicles. It also had to be ‘no frills’ because once the houses were finished, paved roads would be constructed.
Within eight hours, the German contractor had finished the job using a Volvo ABG7820, which handled around 500t of asphalt. The next morning, the first vehicles were already rolling over the hardened blacktop.
On a stretch of about 400m, an asphalt base layer – which would also cope with heavyweight construction vehicles – was cut to a width of 6.5m. To achieve this, the finisher, reduced to a width of 2.5m for the journey to the building site, had been extended to double its width.
Attachments provided the 6.5m required for the road to be paved in one go and the compression roller followed right behind it.