Full-service
Everything required to build the pavement from start to finish, self-delivered and handed over complete.
- Pre-milling, spreading, mixing
- Compaction, trimming and rolling
- Seal coat or asphalt
- One contract, one site supervisor
Services / Stabilisation methods
Road recycling
Road recycling is in-situ stabilisation described by what it saves rather than how it works.
What it is
The method is the same (pulverise the existing pavement, mix in a binder, compact and reseal), but the reason a council or an asset owner chooses it is increasingly this: the materials for the new road are already there.
Accurate is an AustStab-accredited contractor. AustStab is the Pavement Recycling and Stabilisation Association, and recycling is in the name because that's the point.
Best suited for
Where it earns its place.
- 01Local governmentCouncils / ShiresUp to 100% of the existing pavement reused, with nothing carted to landfill.
- 02Government & state infrastructureTfNSW / State roadsRecycled-content and embodied-carbon criteria met by default.
- 03Civil & head contractorsInfrastructure / CivilFewer truck movements through the street, and a shorter programme.
How we work with you
Full-service and part-service
Flexible ways to engage Accurate, depending on your project requirements.
Part-service
Plant and crew for the stabilisation step itself, working to your programme with your own resources alongside.
- Stabiliser, spreader truck and water cart
- Operators who know the plant
- Your compaction, trimming and surfacing
- The specialist step, on your dates
What gets reused
Up to 100% of the existing pavement. The old base course, the old seal, and in many cases the top of the subgrade become the new bound layer. Nothing is dug out or carted to landfill, and no new quarried material is brought in except the binder itself, at 2–5% by mass.
On a typical 350mm-deep council rehabilitation over 5,000m², that's approximately 3,000 tonnes of material that stays in the road instead of going to landfill, and approximately 3,000 tonnes of new material that never has to be quarried, crushed and trucked to site.
What that means in truck movements
A dig-out on that same 5,000m² job means carting 3,000 tonnes out and 3,000 tonnes in. At 20 tonnes a truck, that's around 300 truck movements through the street: noise, road wear, traffic control, and diesel.
Road recycling replaces that with a stabiliser, a spreader, a water cart and rollers. The plant arrives, does the job, and leaves. On a residential street, that's a fortnight of disruption cut to a few days.
The environmental case
With numbers
Industry figures put the greenhouse gas reduction from in-situ recycling versus reconstruction at more than 50%, driven by three things: no new quarried aggregate, no haulage of old material out or new material in, and a much shorter construction period.
Up to 100% reused
The old base course, the old seal, and in many cases the top of the subgrade become the new bound layer.
Around 300 truck movements
A dig-out on a 5,000m² job means carting 3,000 tonnes out and 3,000 tonnes in, at 20 tonnes a truck.
Managed and documented
ISO 14001 environmental management certification means those outcomes are managed and documented on every job, not assumed.
FAQs
Common questions.
01Is cold in-place recycling the same thing?
You'll see the term cold in-place recycling (CIPR) used, especially in Queensland and by national contractors. It describes the same method Accurate delivers: the existing asphalt and base are milled and recycled in place, without heat, into a new bound layer.
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Enquiries, tender requests or specifications
Enquire about your next road recycling project
Call (02) 4942 6100 or send the road and the problem.
Contact Info
- (02) 4942 6100
- quotes@accuratestabilising.com.au
- 66 Kalaroo Rd, Redhead NSW 2290
- Mon–Fri 7:00am – 5:00pm