Whether you’re driving, biking, or even just walking somewhere, roads shape your experience.

When well-built and properly maintained, they provide an uninterrupted form of travel. That ensures you can get to where you need to go and that businesses and services can do the same, keeping the economy up and booming.

But when roads have poor foundations or maintenance, that’s not the case. Instead, they have less resistance to wear and tear from vehicle traffic, leading to significant surface damage. That slows down the traffic, increasing fuel emissions; creates uneven surfaces, making accidents more likely; and interrupts the transportation process in the supply chain, disrupting the economy.

It all goes to show that reliable road infrastructure is key to a safe and thriving community.

But lately, ensuring that infrastructure remains reliable has become much harder. This is due to a number of factors. But one of the more prominent ones is increasingly unpredictable weather patterns. That’s because infrastructure is designed with typical local weather in mind, which doesn’t account for drastic deviations that are currently happening. As a result, a road’s resiliency now needs to be all-encompassing.

That especially includes making use of freeze-thaw resistance. After all, freeze-thaw damage doesn’t just impact the typical asphalt roads. It can also impact the increasingly popular concrete roads popping up in regions like Spain, Germany, China, and the United States of America (USA). While concrete roads have become more popular due to their higher average service life and better form of durability than asphalt roads, they remain vulnerable to freeze-thaw cycles, which are only becoming a bigger concern that builders need to reckon with as time goes on.

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