RHiNOPHALT® | Extending the life of a Key Asset – Highways

Matt Lambert Posted On April 12, 2016

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At ASI Solutions, as committed Highways and Transportation professionals we don’t believe ‘goalposts’ are ever fixed.

As an industry we are being faced with a unique challenge.

The ‘Road’, with its depreciating finite life, cannot economically be renewed in line with traditional life cycle activities.

We are told that there are 31,000 potholes awaiting repair that could take 11 years to clear, one in 7 drivers have had their car damaged as a result of a pavement defect and more than £20million is paid out annually in third party claims. Road works, both planned and unplanned are costing the economy more than £4.3billion, … is this sustainable?

Our response, and that of an increasing group of asset managers is that it is not. Lobbying government for more funds is one way forward but unlikely to be successful due to budget constraints and spending cuts.

But there is a different way – a RHiNOPHALT^® based Asset Management regime – one that moves the whole life cost ‘goalposts’.

Evidence of creating value through use of whole life asset management principles.

RHiNOPHALT^® from ASI Solutions is a low cost, cold applied, chemically engineered preservative applied to the top surface of a ‘Road’, forming a membrane on, and uniquely, within the bituminous surface. Ideally, it should be used 1-2 years after surfacing has been laid and maintained as part of a 5-7 year cyclical regime of application and reapplication – optimum results will be delivered by targeting ‘Roads’ with a Condition Index of ‘Very Good’ or ‘Good’ – the use of RHiNOPHALT^® will radically slow deterioration of the surface.

RHiNOPHALT^® keeps good surfaces good. A bold claim? Yes, but it is true. We have been treating assets like wooden buildings, fences even our cars with surface preservative applications for years, we know that certain applications ‘do exactly what they say on the tin’ – so why don’t we do this to our bituminous surfaces?

Well some Asset Owners and Operators are, and they are seeing the benefits, making economic and environmental savings and increasing the whole life of the ‘finite’ components of their Asset. Not making them ‘infinite’, we’ve only been going for 20 years, but making them last longer, much longer.

RHiNOPHALT^® will typically save at least one resurfacing over a 20-year period.

One of ASI’s largest motorway concession customers is confident of achieving whole life savings of close to 40%.

RHiNOPHALT^® is usually chosen by prospective clients not only to preserve the existing asphalt surfacing but also to minimise the amount of “unplanned interventions“ they would expect to carry out, which were estimated to be reduced by 66%.