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Syncrete was promoted by Hodson consulting engineers as a quicker, cheaper, longer-lasting alternative to conventional concrete, and UDOT agreed to take on the risk for the experimental project. However, the freeway surface began crumbling shortly after the project's completion, and chunks of the
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Instead of a total reconstruction, which would have required closing sections of I-15 for up to a year, the "salt resistant" Syncrete was applied as 3/4"-thick overlay on top of the existing road surface.
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