Due to heavy cracking penetrating through to the wearing course, the western part of Holstebro Ring Road was in need of a new wearing surface on a stretch of road measuring approximately 1.3 km. The section of road in question has an annual daily traffic volume of about 13,600 vehicles.

The road has a structure with an HBB layer that is cement stabilised. This layer is in the process of de-stressing, which means that the layer is cracking across the roadway and the cracks are breaking through the asphalt layers. The same phenomenon is also seen with old asphalt base layers.

The distance between the cracks were small as a few metres. On the 1.3 km stretch, it was estimated that there were approximately 2.5 km of transverse cracks.