BATT
Better Asphalt —
Today & Tomorrow
We advance asphalt innovations from lab to pavement through expert engineering, testing, training, and product development.
The BATT Team delivers precision-driven solutions for asphalt paving projects, ensuring top-quality results that meet industry standards.
With a focus on durability and efficiency, we help bring your infrastructure vision to life, optimizing performance and longevity for every project.
Our Services
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Asphalt Mix & Binder Testing
Ensure long-lasting, compliant pavements with precision testing and proven expertise
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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Asphalt Pavement Condition Analysis & Field Services
Field-Proven Expertise and Real-Time Insights for Stronger, Longer-Lasting Pavements
BATT takes its asphalt design expertise out of the lab and into the field to provide on-site testing, analysis and quality control to help its clients achieve long-lasting pavements. AI-based, BATT Vision can deliver a high level of accuracy and consistency in assessing the condition of asphalt pavements. Density testing, core sampling and on-site friction testing, along with real-time quality control are among the additional civil engineering services BATT can provide.
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Asphalt Forensic Analysis
Avoid Costly Repairs, Delays, and Legal Risks
When 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
Stay Ahead of Safety Standards and Win More Bids with Accurate Friction Testing Insights
Many states 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
Transform Your Asphalt Innovations into Market-Ready Solutions with Expert Support
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 Consulting, Engineering & Supercharged Interlayers
Innovative Engineering Solutions That Enhance Pavement Performance and Sustainability
BATT provides expert civil engineering consulting that can deliver solutions to a wide range of asphalt pavement challenges and performance requirements. We specialize in providing innovative, sustainable solutions and in developing specifications for complex asphalt pavement problems and challenges.
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Asphalt Education & Training
Strengthen Your Team with Customized Asphalt Training
BATT’s asphalt experts provide an array of training and educational courses to personnel in the asphalt industry. We provide training on binder, volumetric mix design, Balanced Mix Design, and more. Training can be customized to meet your needs..
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Asphalt Lab Audits
Prepare Your Lab for Certification Success with Expert Independent 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.
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Best practices for airport 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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High RAP content pavements
In 2020, BATT tested a new asphalt mix design for the City of Louisville that offered the potential to recycle a far greater percentage of RAP using an EPD-listed reinforcement agent. 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
BATT supplied civil engineering support to help BASF test a modification technology designed to improve adhesion of the asphalt mix by cross-linking the liquid binder. The asphalt binder modification technology, called “B2Last” brings a new type of science to asphalt paving technology..
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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 assisted the creators of Uberbinder, a promising new solution for lowering CO2 in asphalt paving using polymerized sulfur. After examining the fundamentals of how Uberbinder bonds, BATT testing found it works extremely well as an asphalt replacement binder and has great potential to help the asphalt industry build sustainable, flexible pavements while lowering CO2
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