Mr. Pot Hole

I had this man on my radio show in April 2008 and we talked extensively about potholes and asphalt. Guess what? Asphalt has been engineered to offer the best product. It's not the weather, or the country that causes potholes, it's the micro fractures that start and lead to bigger things. We use the conventional "steamroller" method which is the same analogy as rolling out a pie crust. Try it, it should become apparent why we have potholes. And, no one will take this guy seriously since the paving industry is locked into their old ways.

A. O. Abd El Halim

Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carleton University
Cell: (613) 286-8043
Office: (613) 520-2600 ext. 5789

Professor Abd El Halim is the inventor of the asphalt roller AMIR that has revolutionised the field of pavement construction. During the past 18 years at Carleton, Professor Halim has established Carleton University as an international leading research centre in the fields of transportation engineering, asphalt pavements, and the use of Geosynthetics in civil engineering applications.