Concrete Pavement Sustainability
Track Goal:Through research and technology transfer, the Concrete Pavement Sustainability Track will transform the way concrete pavements are designed, constructed, maintained, restored, and recycled, producing improved economic, environmental, and societal benefits and acceptance.
Track Mission: The mission of the Concrete Pavement Sustainability Track is to identify and quantify sustainable characteristics of concrete pavement and to achieve increased sustainability by addressing economic, environmental, and societal needs and desires in the design, construction, maintenance, restoration, and recycling of concrete pavement.
Potential projects
- Develop a briefing document that defines sustainability and describes the current state of the practice on implementing sustainable solutions today
- Develop a "Best Practices" training manual and implementation package for concrete pavement sustainability
- Organize and conduct a strategic conference on Sustainability of Concrete Pavements
- Select two R&D research projects that address technology advances, such as carbon sequestration/absorption or advances in aggregate recycling, etc.
- Create demonstration projects that feature sustainable solutions and communicate the success of these projects
- Establish funding for a project that addresses the systems approach by looking at a quantification process to validate our assumptions of what is environmentally, economically, and socially beneficial for various design and material strategies
Upcoming priorities
Not yet determined.
Subtracks in other Road Map Tracks related to Sustainability
- Functional Portland Cement Concrete Pavement Models Adaptation (Track 1)
- Pavement-Tire Noise Sensing (Track 3)
- High-Speed, In-Situ Portland Cement Concrete Pavement Breakup, Removal, and Processing (Track 5)
- Recycled Concrete Processing/Improvement (Track 5)
- Precast Quiet Pavement Surfaces (Track 7)
- Long-Life Concrete Pavement Types, Design Features, Foundations, and Rehabilitation/Maintenance Strategies (Track 8)
- Achieving Sustainability with Concrete Pavements (Track 11)
- Impact of Concrete Pavement Reflectance, Absorption, and Emittance on the Urban Heat Island Effect (Track 11)
- Cement Containing Titanium Dioxide (Track 12)
- Increased Percentages of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement as an Aggregate for Concrete Paving Mixtures (Track 12)
- Mix Design Considerations with Recycled Concrete Aggregate (Track 12)
- Acceptance Criteria for Using Recycled Aggregate (Track 12)
- Waste Materials in Concrete Mixes (Track 12)
- Eco-cement for Concrete Mixes (Track 12)
- Polymer Concrete Made from Recycled Plastic Bottles (Track 12)
Meetings
-
Sustainability Track Leadership Meeting (July 23, 2008)
- Minutes (63 kb pdf)
- WELCOME! Sustainability Track Leadership (495 kb pdf)
- Sustainable Concrete Pavements: What can we do? (925 kb pdf)
- Sustainability Track: Framing (452 kb pdf)
- Discussion Items (810 kb pdf)
- Discussion Items: CP Road Map Concrete Pavement Sustainability Track (38 kb pdf)
People involved
Track Coordinators:
- Dale Harrington, Snyder & Assoc, dharrington@snyder-associates.com, 515-290-4014
- Peter Taylor, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center, ptaylor@iastate.edu, (515) 294-9333
Track Experts:
- Peter Taylor, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center, ptaylor@iastate.edu, (515) 294-9333
- Thomas J. Van Dam, Michigan Technological University, tvandam@mtu.edu, (906) 487-2524
Track Team Leadership:
- Gina Ahlstrom, FHWA, gina.ahlstrom@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-4612
- Erin Ashley, National Ready Mix Concrete Association, eashley@nrmca.org, (410) 796-7975
- Tom Cackler, CP Tech Center, tcackler@iastate.edu, 515-294-3230
- Kevin Cail, Lafarge, kevin.cail@lafarge-na.com, (703) 480-6624
- George Crombie, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, george.crombie@state.vt.us, (802) 241-3600
- Jim Duit, Duit Construction, jimduit@duitconstruction.com, 405-340-6026
- Ben Franklin, ACAA Representative/Headwaters, bfranklin@headwaters.com, (501) 305-4006
- Kevin Gardner, University of New Hampshire, kevin.gardner@unh.edu, (603) 862-4334
- Jason Harrington, FALCON6, jharrington@dot.gov, (202) 366-1576
- Al Innis, Holcim, al.innis@holcim.com, (734) 529-4183
- Robb Jolly, ReVision-Strategy + Design, robb@revisionsd.com, (540) 751-1653
- Ken Kobetsky, AASHTO, kenk@aashto.org, (202) 624-5254
- Steve Kosmatka, Portland Cement Association, skosmatka@cement.org, (847) 972-9164
- Ronald Landy, EPA-Environmental Science Center, Landy.Ronald@epa.gov, (410) 305-2757
- Dominique Lueckenhoff, EPA, lueckenhoff.dominique@epa.gov, (215) 814-5810
- Kevin McMullen, Wisconsin Concrete Pavement Association, kmcmullen@wisconcrete.org, (608) 240-1020
- Dave Meggers, Kansas DOT, dmeggers@ksdot.org, (785) 291-3845
- Joep Meijer, The Right Environment, joepmeijer@therightenvironment.net, (512) 669-2305
- Rick Meininger, Federal Highway Administration, richard.meininger@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 493-3191
- Tom Pyle, CALTRANS, tom_pyle@dot.ca.gov, (916) 813-0285
- Clayton Schumacker, North Dakota DOT, cschumaker@nd.gov, (701) 328-6906
- Doug Schwartz, Minnesota DOT, doug.schwartz@dot.state.mn.us, (651) 366-5576
- Tim Smith, Cement Association of Canada, tsmith@cement.ca, (613) 236-9471
- Michael Sprinkel, Virginia Transportation Research Council, michael.sprinkel@vdot.virginia.gov, (434) 293-1941
- Larry Sutter, Michigan Tech University, llsutter@mtu.edu, (906) 487-2268
- Leif Wathne, ACPA, lwathne@pavement.com, (202) 638-2272
- David Weber, Slag Cement Association, daveweber@slagcement.org, (678) 494-8248
- Paul Wiegand, CP Tech Center, pwiegand@iastate.edu, 515-294-7082

