International Conference on Sustainable Concrete Pavements: Practices, Challenges, and Directions

Design and Analysis

Materials and Construction Technology

Management and Preservation

Surface Characteristics

Construction and Materials Quality Assurance

Environmental Stewardship

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Final Technical Program (June 25, 2010)

September 15-17, 2010 — Sacramento, California

Sustainable Strategies from Raw Material Production to Long-Term Service

Organized by

Federal Highway Administration
National Concrete Pavement Technology Center

And sponsored by

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
American Concrete Institute
American Concrete Pavement Association
California Department of Transportation
California Pavement Preservation Center at California State University, Chico
Cement Association of Canada
Federal Aviation Administration
International Society for Concrete Pavements
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association
Portland Cement Association
Transportation Research Board
University of California Pavement Research Center
University Transportation Center for Materials in Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure at Michigan Technological University

Background

The majority of concrete pavements in the U.S. interstate and primary systems are now being designed to provide a service life of at least 40 years without requiring significant repair or rehabilitation treatments. While these new pavements are being designed and constructed using sound technical know-how, it is not clear that adequate attention is being paid to ensure that they are implemented in a sustainable manner. Best-practices guidance on sustainable practices is not readily available to pavement design engineers, specifiers, and constructors.

Sustainable construction is of recent origin. However, its importance in the future evolution of our civilization cannot be denied. As resources diminish globally and the environment comes under increasing stress, the adoption of sustainable design and construction practices is an important strategy to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Recently, increasing attention is being paid to balancing the economical needs for infrastructure development and the engineering strategies to be employed with the need for environmental stewardship. With respect to pavement construction, many new terms and phrases have been introduced in the everyday lexicon of concrete pavement and materials technologists-green highways, environmentally responsible solutions, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), life-cycle energy and emissions analysis and assessment, social and environmental benefits, carbon footprint, and ecological footprint.

For concrete pavements, sustainability-related considerations can be introduced at the design and engineering phase, in material selection, during construction, while in service, and ultimately at the end of the pavement's life. Sustainability-related considerations must be integrated throughout the life cycle of a pavement. Although there is a strong desire, and in some cases a mandate, to incorporate sustainability considerations in new concrete pavement design and construction and in the management of existing concrete pavements, procedures and guidelines for doing so are neither widely accepted nor clearly understood.

To provide highway and airport agencies and the industry with the most current information on sustainability considerations for concrete pavements, a 2 1/2-day conference is being organized as a part of technology transfer activities under the Advanced Concrete Pavement Technology (ACPT) Products Program that operates within the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The conference will provide an international forum to discuss the sustainable attributes of concrete pavements by presenting existing technologies, emerging research, approaches to measuring energy and environmental impact, user considerations, and international practices and experience. The forum will present improved and innovative processes for achieving sustainable concrete pavements throughout the pavement's life cycle.

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE-September 14-17, 2010
Tuesday, 14	All-day National Concrete Consortium Meeting Evening Reception and Exhibit Program
Wednesday, 15	Technical Program Exhibit Program
Thursday, 16	Technical Program Exhibit Program
Friday, 17	Technical Program Conference ends at noon

FINAL TECHNICAL PROGRAM (June 25, 2010)
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010, TUESDAY
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	NATIONAL CONCRETE CONSORTIUM MEETING
3:00 pm	CONFERENCE REGISTRATION BEGINS
6:00 - 8:00 pm	RECEPTION
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010, WEDNESDAY
8:30 am	SESSION 1 - PLENARY SESSION Moderator - Shiraz Tayabji, Fugro Consultants, Inc.	Welcome Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) (TBA) Caltrans (TBA) Gerald Voigt, American Concrete Pavement Association Invited (TBA) Sustainable Concrete Pavements: A U.S. Perspective - Tom Cackler, Director, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center Sustainable Concrete Pavements: European Considerations - Raymond Debroux, Inspecteur Général, Service Public de Wallonie, Belgium; Chairman, PIARC Subcommittee on Concrete Roads Challenges Confronting Sustainable Practices for Concrete Pavement Design and Construction in Australia - George Vorobieff, Director, Head to Head International
10:00 - 10:30 am	BREAK
10:30 am	SESSION 2 - SUSTAINABILITY APPLICATIONS TO CONCRETE PAVEMENTS Moderator - Georgene Geary, Georgia Department of Transportation	Basic Principles Behind Sustainability for Concrete Pavements - Peter C. Taylor, Associate Director, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center; and Thomas J. Van Dam, Program Director, Materials and Sustainability, Applied Pavement Technology, Inc. Slag Cement and Concrete Sustainability - P. Bohme, Manager, Technical Services, Holcim (US), Inc.; G. McLellan, Technical Manager, Hanson Slag Cement; and M. Luther, Senior Technical Service Engineer, Holcim (US), Inc. Innovative Sustainable Concrete Pavement Solutions - Fares Y. Abdo, Market Manager, Pavements, and David D. Shepherd, Director, Sustainable Development, Portland Cement Association Sustainability Opportunities for Concrete Pavements - Jim Grove, FHWA/Global Consulting, Inc.; Suneel Vanikar, FHWA, Office of Pavement Technology; and Leif Wathne, American Concrete Pavement Association
12:15 - 1:15 pm	LUNCH
1:15 pm	SESSION 3 - SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE PAVEMENT DESIGN Moderator - Kurt Smith, Applied Pavement Technology, Inc.	Concrete Pavement Thickness and Materials Optimization-Design Concepts and Performance - Thomas Burnham, Senior Road Research Engineer, Minnesota Department of Transportation Structural and Hydrological Design of Pervious Concrete Pavements Using PerviousPave - Robert Rodden, Director of Technical Services and Product Development; Gerald Voigt, President and CEO; and Andrew Gieraltowski, Vice President, Operations & IT, American Concrete Pavement Association Design and Rehabilitation Strategies for Sustainable Concrete Pavements - H. Thomas Yu and Mark Swanlund, FHWA, Office of Pavement Technology Structural/Hydrologic Design and Maintenance of Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavement - David R. Smith, Technical Director, Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute; and William F. Hunt, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, North Carolina State University
3:00 - 3:30 pm	BREAK
3:30 pm	FORUM 1 - HIGHWAY AGENCY SUSTAINABLE PCCP PRACTICES AND DIRECTIONS Moderator - Suneel Vanikar, FHWA	Sustainable Concrete Pavements-Initiatives in the FHWA Office of Pavement Technology - Samuel S. Tyson, FHWA, Office of Pavement Technology FHWA's Sustainable Concrete Pavement Program - Gina Ahlstrom, FHWA, Office of Pavement Technology Caltrans Practices (TBA) Ontario Practices - Tom Kazmierowski, Ontario Ministry of Transportation Virginia Practices - Celik Ozyildirim, Virginia Transportation Research Council/Virginia DOT Texas Practices - Dar-Hao Chen, Texas DOT
6:00 pm	GROUP DINNER
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010, THURSDAY
6:30 - 8:00 am	BREAKFAST
8:00 am	SESSION 4 - SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE PAVING MATERIALS Moderator - Peter Taylor, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center	Use of Low-CO₂ Portland Limestone Cement for Pavement Construction in Canada - M.D.A. Thomas, University of New Brunswick; and K. Cail, B. Blair, A. Delagrave, P. Masson, and K. Kazanis, Lafarge North America Use of Performance Cements (ASTM C1157) in Colorado and Utah: Laboratory Durability Testing and Case Studies - Thomas J. Van Dam, Program Director, Materials and Sustainability, Applied Pavement Technology, Inc.; and Brooke W. Smartz, Manager, Sustainable Products, and Todd S. Laker, Technical Service Engineer, Mountain Sales Group, Holcim (US), Inc. Concrete Containing RAP for Use in Concrete Pavement - Nabil Hossiney, Graduate Student, and Mang Tia, Professor, University of Florida; and Michael J. Bergin, State Structural Materials Engineer, Florida DOT Using Soybean Oil to Improve the Durability of Concrete Pavements - John T. Kevern, University of Missouri-Kansas City
9:45 - 10:15 am	BREAK
10:15 am	SESSION 5 - SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE PAVING MIXTURES Moderator - Thomas Van Dam, Applied Pavement Technology, Inc.	Mixture Proportioning Options for Improving High Volume Fly Ash Concretes - Dale P. Bentz, Chemical Engineer, and Chiara F. Ferraris, Physicist, NIST; Igor De la Varga, Ph.D. Student, Purdue University; and Max A. Peltz, Engineering Technician, and John A. Winpigler, Engineering Technician, NIST Durability of a New Generation of Pervious Concrete Mixtures Designed for Roadway Applications - John T. Kevern, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Vernon R. Schaefer and Kejin Wang, Iowa State University; and Paul Wiegand, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center Permeability, Strength and Fatigue Properties for Open-Graded Concrete for Permeable Concrete Pavements - Brock Campbell, Hui Li, John Harvey, and David Jones, University of California Pavement Research Center, University of California, Davis IPRF Project 06-02 Interim Report "Airfield Pavement Concrete Mix Proportioning, Incorporating Fly Ash as Cementitious Material" - Ahmad Ardani, FHWA; and Chetana Rao and Richard Stehly, Applied Research Associates, Inc.
12:00 - 1:15 pm	LUNCH
1:15 pm	SESSION 6 - SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION CONSIDERATIONS Moderator - George Vorobieff, Head to Head International (Australia)	Use of Exposed Aggregate Concrete Surfaces as a Sustainable Practice - Robert Otto Rasmussen and Sabrina I. Garber, The Transtec Group, Inc.; Hermann Sommer, Austria; E. Thomas Cackler, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center; Andrew J. Gisi, Kansas DOT; Gary J. Fick, Trinity Construction Management Services, Inc. Implementation of Narrow Contraction Joints In Louisiana: A Cost–Benefit Analysis Study - Tyson D. Rupnow, Mark Martinez, and Zhongjie Zhang, Louisiana Transportation Research Center Calculation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Concrete Highway Construction Projects Using an Integrated Life Cycle Assessment Approach - Darrell Cass, Graduate Research Assistant, and Amlan Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, Michigan Tech University Sustainable Pavement Overlays Using Engineered Cementitious Composites - Michael D. Lepech, Stanford University, and Victor C. Li, The University of Michigan
3:00 - 3:30 pm	BREAK
3:30 pm	SESSION 7 - INDUSTRY INNOVATIONS AND ASSESSMENT OF SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES I Moderator - Gerald Voigt, American Concrete Pavement Association	Environmentally Friendly, Energetically Modified Cement - Vladimir Ronin, EMC Cement BV, Switzerland Next-Generation Paving Materials Using Mineralized CO₂ Captured From Flue Gas - Laurence Clodic, Joshua Patterson, Cecily Ryan, and Terence Holland, Calera Corporation Hydraulic Cement Production From Coal Combustion Products - James Hicks, Executive Vice President of Research and Development, CeraTech, Inc. Greenroads: A Sustainability Rating System for Roadways - Stephen T. Muench, Assistant Professor, and Jeralee Anderson, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Washington; and Tim Bevan, VP Puget Sound Operations Manager, CH2M Hill Consideration of Time-Dependent Factors in the Environmental Assessment of Long-Life Pavements - Nicholas J. Santero, University of California, Berkeley; and John Harvey, University of California, Davis
	DINNER ON YOUR OWN
SEPTEMBER 17, 2010, FRIDAY
6:30 - 8:00 am	BREAKFAST
8:00 am	SESSION 8 - ASSESSMENT OF SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES II Moderator - Tim Smith, Cement Association of Canada	Sustainability Opportunities With Pavements: Are We Focusing on the Right Stuff? - Leif Wathne, American Concrete Pavement Association A Proven Methodology for Measuring the Environmental Impact of Concrete for Pavements Using Eco-Efficiency Analysis - Mark A. Bury, Product Manager, and Brad Violetta, Industry Manager, BASF Construction Chemicals A Parametric Analysis of Life Cycle Assessment for Concrete Pavement Systems - In-Sung Lee, Alissa Kendall, John Harvey, and Ting Wang, University of California, Davis; and Nicholas Santero, University of California, Berkeley
9:20 - 9:45 am	BREAK
10:15 am	FORUM 2 - NATIONAL CONCRETE CONSORTIUM REPORTS ON HIGHWAY AGENCY PRACTICES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS Moderator - Tom Cackler, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center	Sustainable Pavement Alternatives for Rapid Construction and Rehabilitation - Mehdi Parvini, Caltrans Recycled Concrete Use in Indiana - Tommy Nantung, Indiana DOT Durability of Concrete Pavements in Kansas - Heather McLeod, Kansas DOT Minnesota's Experience with Sustainability - Maria Masten, Minnesota DOT Going Green in Missouri - Brett Trautman, Missouri DOT Concrete and Sustainability: TxDOT's Approach - Lisa Lukefahr, Texas DOT
12:00 noon	CONFERENCE ENDS

Registration Details (all fees are in U.S. dollars)*
	Early (by May 31, 2010)	Late (by July 31, 2010)	Very Late (after July 31, 2010)
General registration	350	400	500
Government agencies (U.S. only) and full-time students	250	300	400
Authors and academia	300	350	450
Spouses	100	150	200
Exhibitors (includes one free registration)	1,500	1,750	2,000
* Fees include Tuesday evening reception; breakfasts on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday; lunch on Wednesday and Thursday; and refreshments at breaks.

Conference Hotel

The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento (Phone: 1-888-421-1442) in downtown Sacramento, California, right across from the State Capitol grounds. The conference room rate is $130.00, single or double (per diem rate of $109.00 or prevailing rate for U.S. government agency employees-Federal, State, and municipality), plus applicable taxes. The group reservation code for the discounted room rate is "2010 Concrete Conference."

Conference Steering Committee

Shiraz Tayabji, Fugro Consultants, Inc. (Co-Chair)
Tom Cackler, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center (Co-Chair)
Gina Ahlstrom, FHWA
Brent Trautman, Missouri Department of Transportation
Tim Smith, Cement Association of Canada
Paul Tikalsky, University of Utah
Sam Tyson, FHWA
Thomas Van Dam, Applied Pavement Technology, Inc.
Leif Wathne, American Concrete Pavement Association

Technical Program Subcommittee

Peter Taylor (National Concrete Pavement Technology Center) (Co-Chair), Shiraz Tayabji (Fugro Consultants, Inc.) (Co-Chair), and representatives from FHWA, highway agencies, industry, and academia

For more information and the Exhibitor Program, contact:

Shiraz Tayabji, PE, Fugro Consultants, Inc. Phone: 410-997-9020; Fax: 410-997-9028; Email: stayabji@aol.com

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Contact

Sam Tyson
Office of Asset Management, Pavement, and Construction
202-366-1326
E-mail Sam

Updated: 04/07/2011