subject: Stamped Asphalt Improves the Aesthetics, Safety, and Resilience of Your Paved Surfaces [print this page] Stamped Asphalt Improves the Aesthetics, Safety, and Resilience of Your Paved Surfaces
Stamped asphalt is the most innovative decorative paving system developed, and yet, it is extremely advanced in its simplicity. The stamped asphalt surfacing system is a process of imprinting or stamping a template pattern into freshly placed or reheated asphalt.
Professional and skilled installers with detailed knowledge and experience in stamping and coating asphalt surfaces heat the asphalt at the right depth to imprint the chosen pattern. Once the pattern is set and completed in the asphalt, a protective and decorative epoxy modified acrylic coating is applied to enhance the safety and strength of the paved surface.
Installing stamped asphalt takes a few hours to complete and can easily be done at night thereby reducing any serious disruptions and costs. The end result of stamped asphalt is decorative pavement that helps protect pedestrians and vehicles and compliments landscape architecture with its unique colours and patterns.
Stamped asphalt comes in many different patterns and templates that may be as simple as Offset Brick or British Cobble to complex custom-made logos and signage. Any design, pattern, and colour are possible. With the proper vision, stamped asphalt will add to the design of your location and make it aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Stamped asphalt also serves a more important purpose. The finished decorative pavement may be designed with highly visible colours and finished with a slip and skid resistant coating that makes streets and crossings safer for pedestrians and drivers.
Asphalt surfaces are much different than brick or concrete surfaces. Stamped asphalt is one complete seamless surface that can expand and contract, which makes it flexible and able to resist cracking and structural damage due to everyday use, weather extremes or invasion from insects, animals, or plant life. If there is any damage, it will most likely be cosmetic and can be easily repaired with minimal disruption. The durability of stamped asphalt makes it extremely easy to maintain.
The beauty of stamped asphalt is that the process is highly versatile and can be a cost-effective solution for just about any asphalt surface you can imagine. They may be used for driveways, roundabouts, parking lots, intersections, entryways, bike lanes, plazas, walkways, safety zones, traffic calming areas, building pathways, and more.
Since 1992, Integrated Paving Concepts has been the leading experts in stamped asphalt solutions, asphalt coating technology, and other paving solutions including their new StreetPrintXD high performance crosswalk technology.
