Asphalt is one of the oldest building materials in the world. Its first recorded use was in Babylon in 625 B.C. Today you'll find asphalt all around you in a variety of uses, including:

• Transportation - highways, rail beds for transit systems, airport runways
• Recreational - running tracks, greenway trails, playgrounds, bicycle and golf cart paths, racetracks, basketball and tennis courts
• Residential - driveways, subdivision roads
• Agricultural - cattle feed lots, poultry house floors, barn floors, greenhouse floors
• Industrial - work sites, log yards, ports, freight yards, landfill caps

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