#road construction

• To coat with bitumen — To coat, cover, or mix mineral aggregates (crushed stone, gravel, sand) with a hydrocarbon binder (fluid bitumen or bituminous emulsion) to obtain asphalt mixtures for road surfaces. In civil engineering, this structural process ensures the cohesion, impermeability, and mechanical resistance of bituminous layers applied to highways or public roads.
• Bitumen-coated — Having undergone the process of anrobare; a mineral aggregate, stone chipping, or rocky material that has been uniformly wrapped and covered with a thin film of bitumen, emulsion, or hydrocarbon binder. In a technical sense, it describes the state of the components of an asphalt mixture ready to be laid and compacted on the roadway to form impermeable and resistant road layers.
• Asphalt — A natural or artificial mixture of bitumen and granular mineral matters, black or dark brown in color, structurally used as an impermeable binder for road paving, waterproofing buildings, or manufacturing protective varnishes. In colloquial sense, it designates the roadway surface of a modernized street or highway.
• Asphalt pavement — The totality of technical paving or covering works of a road, pedestrian, or industrial surface with a compact layer of asphalt; the result of the asphalting operation, viewed as a finished structure. It is a technical term more rarely used in current speech, usually replaced by the noun of action 'asfaltare'.
• Spreading — The act of spreading or laying down and its result; the technical, industrial, biological, or household process through which the stretching, uniform distribution, or layering of a material (textiles, straw, bituminous mixtures, soil) on a given surface is achieved. In construction, it defines the mechanical or manual operation of applying an asphalt carpet or gravel for road structure execution.