Tensar Glasstex®Patch™ 880 provides quick and easy localised maintenance repairs before paving operations. Use directly on existing pavements, nely milled surfaces, concrete substrates, for bridging cracks or to reinforce fractured asphalt. THE CHALLENGE Local and national highways engineers are constantly challenged with getting better value from tight budgets and reducing road maintenance costs. With a higher proportion of road maintenance budgets being spent on reactive repairs*, then there is a greater need for engineers to carry out maintenance repairs within budget and with minimised disruption to road users. INTRODUCING GLASSTEX®PATCH™ 880 Glasstex®Patch™ is a reinforcement composite specically developed for localised maintenance repairs between milling and paving operations. It can be used directly on existing pavements, nely milled surfaces, concrete substrates, for bridging open cracks or to reinforce fractured asphalt before the new overlay is installed. The composite is designed to inhibit the development of reective and fatigue cracks. Potholes and voids due to disintegration of the existing asphalt should be filled and open cracks should also be sealed before applying Glasstex®Patch™ 880. This product is also applicable to the construction of stable, durable asphalt sealing around iron works, where the combination of asphalt, concrete, mortar and iron causes reective and fatigue cracking. THE ADVANTAGES OF GLASSTEX®PATCH™ 880 Easy and fast installation No specialist installation required Glasstex®Patch™ 880 can be applied to most sound substrates utilising the adhesive coating. Easily transportable in roll sizes 15.0mL x 1.0mW Simple to cut to size on site for awkward areas e.g. around manholes and gullies Compatible with tack coat use on uneven substrates e.g. concrete or open texture asphalt Compatible with the new asphalt overlay through the quartz sand coating Reective cracking resistant through both stress relief and reinforcement eects No requirement for bitumen tankers or installation plant Provides reinforcement and waterproong of localised weak spots in a pavement such as service trenches Installed directly on a sound substrate using adhesive coating or heat activation Assists with bridging of joints between two pavement structures (i.e. bus lane and pavement) *Source: Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) Survey 2011, AIA

GLASSTEX®PATCH™ 880 PRODUCT INFORMATION CASE STUDY: ALBERT ROYDS ROAD, ROCHDALE Glasstex®Patch™ 880 consists of a pre-coated glass yarn grid combined with a polymer modied bitumen membrane. The under side of the Glasstex®Patch™ 880 includes a self adhesive coating, while the upper side is treated with a quartz sand protective coating. The adhesive layer is protected during storage by a peel o release lm. Glasstex®Patch™ 880 provides a stress relief action by combining a dense polymer modied bitumen membrane with a coated and protected glass yarn grid asphalt reinforcement overlay. The Challenge:...