 John Loude Mac Adam was a Scottish road builder and civil engineer, and the

surveyor-general of the roads in England. He proposed the macadam road, an

altogether new technique for building roads. He developed a brand-new technique called
"macadamization" for creating smooth, firm surfaces on roads using carefully measured
materials with a variety of particle sizes and a specified structure.
 Compared to all the previous methods, he proposed a brand-new method for
constructing roads and became the most successful of them all, the Macadam Road.
The first road constructed using scientific principles.

MACADAM METHOD

The idea that massive foundation stones do not necessarily need to be laid at the
bottom layer was first put forth by Macadam.
He offered stones ranging in size from less than 5 mm to a consistent 10 cm in
thickness.
Compaction, drainage, and subgrade importance were also recognized. As a result,
the subgrade was created with a slope of 1 in 36.
The sub-base course, or bottom layer of the pavement, was made entirely of
uniformly sized broken stones no thicker than 5 cm.
A minimum thickness of only 25 cm was maintained for the pavement's whole
construction from edge to center.
Broken stones of smaller sizes were used for the base and surface courses, which
were compacted to a thickness of 10 cm and 5 cm, respectively. The top surface had
a cross slope of 1 in 36.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TELFORD AND MACADAM CONSTRUCTION

 The first road builders in England were Telford and Macadam. While Macadam favored
the use of a compacted crushed aggregate layer at the bottom, Telford believed in
utilizing heavy foundation stones over the soil sub-grade.