Asphalt is known to be longer than 5000 years,
is a proven building material. In the early days, natural deposits
asphalt, impermeable coating material and also as mortar.
It was used. Nowadays asphalt is still a covering that provides impermeability
It is used as material. Asphalt road construction history up to 100
years ago, at that time asphalt, without using binders
to prevent the dust from being carried by the vehicles on the surface layer
. The first asphalt blend between 1920 and 1930
have been taken into operation.
The first asphalt applications in Turkey and the Ottoman period
penetration-makadam coverings.
In the Republican era, construction of asphalt paving started in 1929, Marshall
It was expanded with technical assistance and in 1950 the General Directorate of Highways-KGM
the period of development has begun.