FHWA throws weight, funding toward two-lift concrete paving

摘要

This year and next, the Federal Highway Administration will direct big bucks toward field testing of two-lift concrete paving, according to a disclosure at the 86th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in Washington, D.C., in January. That information was revealed during a panel discussion on long-life concrete pavements targeting design technologies gleaned during an FHWA-sponsored International Technology Scanning Tour in 2006. The panel was one among dozens of presentations and technical papers devoted to ready mixed concrete at TRB, where more than 3,000 scheduled events addressed topics of interest to the public and private sectors responsible for transportation infrastructure. A sampling follows of presentations of interest to the ready mixed industry.