Accelerated Highway Construction: Workshop Series Summary

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Accelerated Highway Construction: Workshop Series Summary - mahyarov - 10-27-2012

This report, prepared under the sponsorship of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Task Force on Accelerating Innovation in the Highway Industry (A5T60), summarizes three workshops held, respectively, in Washington, D.C. on November 16-17, 2000; in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 18-19, 2002; and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 10-12, 2002. The objective of this workshop series was to provide a forum for the exchange of new ideas and developments in the field of accelerated construction. All three workshops were sponsored by the TRB Task Force A5T60. The workshops in Indianapolis and Pittsburgh were presented in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Significant observations from the workshop series are presented in the following areas: management; technology transfer; corridor analysis; secondary disciplines (e.g., geotechnology); constructability; innovative (nontraditional) financing; roles and responsibilities; utilities and railroads; accelerated project partnering; incentives; specification language and rapid testing; value engineering; project consolidation; statistics and the customers; prefabrication and modular technologies; work zones improvement and its usage in construction; national research; and Accelerated Construction Technology Team (ACTT) workshops and national resources.

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