Our Services
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Asphalt Testing
BATT provides a full range of asphalt testing services — including aggregate, binder, and mix testing/mix design — in addition to friction and performance testing, all done by certified asphalt professionals. Our experience also includes Federal Aviation Agency (FAA)-approved mix designs and quality assurance services for airport runways and taxi lanes.
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BATT Vision PCI Analysis
AI-based, BATT Vision—powered by Tiger Eye Engineering — is a new, high-tech service that combines artificial intelligence with a streamlined data collection process, data analytics, and data visualization to achieve a high level of accuracy and consistency in assessing the condition of asphalt pavements.
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Asphalt Forensic Analysis
When a pavement fails prematurely, costly remediations, a complete re-pave, or expensive litigation are a few of the reasons why a forensic analysis from BATT can be your best strategy for addressing the problem. Our asphalt experts employ an array of testing methods and on-site evaluations to determine why the failure occurred, as well as a way to fix it. Our professionals also offer expert witness testimony services.
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Asphalt Friction Testing
Many stateside are beginning to focus on asphalt pavement friction testing and advance new specification requirements in an effort to decrease skidding and increase highway safety. This means future bids may need to consider how to increase the amount of polish-resistant aggregates in asphalt mixes. As one of the few labs in the nation capable of delivering test results from aggregate to asphalt, BATT can help contractors acquire an extensive understanding of friction testing and accurately apply the test results.
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Asphalt Product Development
One reason people turn to BATT so often is our ability to turn ideas into marketable asphalt pavement solutions. BATT is equipped with the resources needed to take your product from concept to reality.
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Asphalt Engineering & Quality Assurance
The AASHTO-accredited BATT Lab provides civil engineering consulting that can deliver solutions to a wide range of asphalt pavement conditions, challenges, and performance needs. BATT professionals also provide quality assurance services in the lab or on the job site.
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Asphalt Lab Training
BATT’s asphalt experts provide an array of services beyond the asphalt testing lab, including civil engineering consulting services and training on virtually any type of asphalt paving project or challenge.
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Asphalt Lab Audits
Asphalt experts from BATT can provide an independent audit of your lab’s performance and adherence to quality standards and measures, including the procedures of AASHTO R 18 or company internal audits.
New! Asphalt Scuff Tester!
New! Asphalt Scuff Tester!
BATT can now test the durability of asphalt surfaces, including paints, seals, and coatings. It’s a great new lab capability, and the only one like it in North America!
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BATT News
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Airport project proves advanced condition analysis + advanced materials + advanced testing = best practices for asphalt paving
In August 2023, BATT’s team of asphalt experts wrapped up a project that combined an in-depth pavement condition analysis with a unique blend of advanced materials and advanced asphalt quality assurance (QA) testing to create a strategy that could well become the standard-bearer for changing best practices in asphalt pavements.
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Meeting New Friction Testing Requirements
Future bids in Kentucky — and increasingly other states — will need to consider how to increase the amount of polish-resistant aggregates in asphalt mixes. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) further requires all pavement designs be submitted to a Dynamic Friction Test (DFT). Other states may soon follow, making asphalt friction testing critical for future projects..
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High RAP Content Pavements
In 2020, the City of Louisville tested a new asphalt mix design that offered the perfect combination of qualities — recycling a far greater percentage of RAP using an EPD-listed reinforcement agent that resulted in long-term sustainability. Two years later, the asphalt engineering services provided by BATT have yielded impressive results.
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Easy-Install Interlayers
A custom asphalt mix design from BATT gave the Taylor County Airport in Kentucky a new lease on life. BATT applied its asphalt engineering expertise to design an easy-install asphalt pavement interlayer that could be produced in plant with existing paving equipment and saved the airport money by eliminating expensive third-party interlayer contractors.
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NCAT Pavement Trials
Asphalt engineering and asphalt testing services from BATT enabled Surface Tech to put its aramid reinforcement product to a rigorous test at the prestigious NCAT institution in Opelika, AL.
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New chemistry to improve neat asphalt
An asphalt binder modification technology from BASF is designed to improve adhesion of the asphalt mix by cross-linking the liquid binder. B2Last brings a new type of science from an engineering perspective.
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High RAP for high sustainability
The Lexington/Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG) was searching for pavement solutions that would provide improved sustainability, and the asphalt experts at BATT had a proven solution to offer. BATT worked with a new combination of additives that not only extended pavement life, but also offered the opportunity to include a higher percentage of recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) to the asphalt mix.
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Budget Friendly Airport Asphalt Runway Repair
In 2022, Palmer Engineering called on the asphalt experts at BATT to assess a general aviation airport in Madisonville, KY. Its 15-year-old runway needed to address a condition of high cracking and raveling. BATT applied its asphalt testing resources and know-how to not only solve the problem but stay within the budget as well.
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Product Development - Uberbinder
As a premier laboratory for asphalt testing, BATT is assisting the creators of Uberbinder, a promising new solution for lowering CO2 in asphalt paving using polymerized sulfur.
The asphalt experts at BATT provide unmatched product development & innovative asphalt pavement solutions.
Experienced. Knowledgeable. Responsive
The BATT Team of asphalt experts have a combined experience that spans the decades reaching back to the advent of Superpave and volumetric mix designs in 1993 and extending to today’s emphasis on performance testing and balanced mix design.
We offer an array of asphalt performance testing services that support contractors, state and local government agencies, additive producers, consultants, and private and commercial project owners. You can count on the BATT to put its experience, knowledge, responsive services, and extensive asphalt lab testing capabilities to work for your success. Whether the job calls for asphalt quality assurance on the job site, asphalt engineering, asphalt product development, or asphalt forensic analysis, count on BATT to be there.
AASHTO Accredited
The BATT Lab has achieved accreditation in accordance with the AASHTO accreditation program in the areas of Asphalt Binder, Asphalt Mixture, and Aggregates. View the accreditation record.
Phil Blankenship, PE, MSCE, President
With decades of experience in product evaluations, development, trials and commercialization, Phil is well qualified to apply insights and innovative thinking to any asphalt challenge. He holds multiple patents and can assist with specification writing and reviews, product testing plans, pavement investigation, and a wide range of training topics tailored to your specific needs and including professional development hours (PDH).
Zack McKay, Laboratory Operations Manager
Zack possesses a strong background in asphalt mixture performance testing and analysis, Zack provides an in-depth understanding of mix designs and behaviors to our clients. He has developed and instructed courses specifically in mixture design and testing and can help your team understand the dynamics of mix design and which solutions to utilize when challenges arise.
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