ASSESSMENT OF THE PAYBACK OF ASPHALT PAVING COMPLEXES FOR THE TECHNOLOGIES OF SEPARATE AND JOINT PAYING OF PAVEMENTS

Abstract

In the modern practice of road construction, an important criterion for deciding on the participation of road building companies in tenders is the availability on the balance sheet of the organization of machines and mechanisms, which are necessary for the production of works. For example, in the USA, in many states, firms that do not have asphalt concrete mix loaders on their balance sheet, are not allowed to participate in the tender for contracts. In the described cases, arises the question about the payback period of the purchased equipment. There are quite a few large contractors in our country who have sufficient financial resources to purchase advanced road construction equipment (primarily foreign production), which can recoup the funds invested in it only with large annual volumes of work. In particular, such road-building equipment includes asphalt-laying complexes for the production of works with the technology of joint laying in several layers. The article proposes a method for assessing the payback of such an asphalt-laying complex, based on determining the difference in the cost of asphalt concrete laid by different technologies.