The Tri-Dyne patented Pro-Active Paving System® addresses the problem of soil subsidence by modifying the road on a traditional soil roadbed. The intriguing difference is a “valve system” that allows maintenance crews to pump up areas under subsidence duress before the integrity of the roadway has an opportunity to deteriorate and fail.
The Mississippi Delta’s unique geology causes recurring problems with roads. Those who live and work in the region contend daily with the potholes, and failing roadway surfaces. These problems add significant delays to daily commutes and hundreds of dollars annually in maintenance costs to vehicles.
Tri-Dyne has patented a workable solution to these problems that will appropriately address this dilemma, providing a unique advantage to municipalities, while offering the new industry development with better paying jobs.
The patented Pro-Active Paving System® is a comprised of a series of reinforced modular road panels that contains evenly spaced valves that provides a mechanism that allows road filler to be pumped underneath the road, when cavities are created by subsidence or other events.
The Pro-Active Paving System® panels are manufactured off site where the concrete is allowed to cure more thoroughly, and for longer periods of time, than when it is poured on site. When it is time to build or replace the road, traditional methods of roadbed preparation are used. Once the traditional roadbed is prepared, a Tri-Dyne licensed crew arrives to lay the Pro-Active Paving System® panels. For a standard road, each panel is about 10-15 ft. wide by 15-20 ft. long. The Pro-Active Paving System® panels connect to each other through rabbit joints that do not allow the road to bend. The reinforced steel in the Pro-Active Paving System® panels aid in the rigidity of the roadway.

If the ground beneath the road begins to subside, a maintenance crew will use the patented valves to pump filler materials into the cavities that were created. The Pro-Active Paving System® design includes adjustable sized curbs, driveways and basins. Standard trucks and mud jacking equipment, with a corresponding nozzle, can maintain these roads.

When a major event develops below the surface of the roadway, either by underground utility failure, or natural disaster, by using this new system of road construction, the same section of roadway may be used over and over again. Maintenance crews will move the original Pro-Active Paving System® panels out of the way, fix the underlying problem, replace the roadbed by traditional methods, then re-install the Pro-Active Paving System® panels back in their original location. This saves the extraordinary costs of tearing up roadways, and of repeatedly laying asphalt over the course of the lifetime of the road.
The Pro-Active Paving System® panels support twice the weight capacity of today’s roads since the Pro-Active Paving System® panels are cured off-site as opposed to in the field. An additional benefit of curing the panels off-site is that weather delays are negated because the panels are ready for installation regardless of weather conditions that traditionally cause delays in construction.

 

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Tri-Dyne Industries™ is a parent licensing company for the Roadway Technology