'A temperature rise of +4°C by 2100 means we have to revise all road standards' (Université G. Eiffel)

“In the laboratory, we carry out rutting tests at 60 °C. This temperature of 60 °C corresponds to the temperature within the asphalt, in either the surface course or the base course. However, projections for France indicate a rise of +4 °C by 2100. We must therefore either revise the existing standards or introduce new performance-based standards that take into account phenomena which, whilst they may not occur every year, could recur every five to ten years,” state Véronique Cerezo, Vice-President for Campus, Scientific Heritage and Property at Gustave Eiffel University and associate researcher at the AME-EASE laboratory, and Ferhat Hammoum, Research Director at Gustave Eiffel University and Director of the MAST - MIT from 2010 to 2020, during the Road Engineering Conference organised…