Rubblization

Rubblization has two primary applications: creating a base for new roadways and decommissioning nuclear power plants.

Specialized equipment breaks up the old roadway into small pieces to make a base for new pavement.

This saves the expense of transporting the old pavement to a disposal site, and purchasing/transporting new base materials for the replacement paving.

[3] The rubblizing process provides many benefits versus other methods of road rehabilitation, such as crack and seat or removal and replacement of a concrete surface including: rubblizing a concrete surface is 52% less expensive than remove and replacing concrete; rubblizing reduces road reconstruction time, from days of lane closures to hours, providing large savings to contractors and reduced impact on travelling public; and rubblization is an environmentally friendly "green" process.,[4][5] Rubblization is used in decommissioning of nuclear power plants.

This saves the expense of removing and transporting the building pieces to a different site.