Welcome to the HMA Airport Construction Website!
This website is the home of the Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) Airport Construction Best Practices Manual, a comprehensive manual on the best practices for constructing HMA airport pavements.
The research that created this manual was funded by the Airfield Asphalt Pavement Technology Program (AAPTP) whose mission is to deliver applied research on asphalt airfield pavements that provides high quality, cost-effective asphalt pavements.
The AAPTP was established in 2004 through a cooperative agreement between the Federal Aviation Administration and Auburn University. Although closely related, the AAPTP is set up separately and operates independently from the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT).
