7:30 AM – 8:00 AM – Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Unique Challenges Contractors Face with Airfield Paving
Airfield paving is different from highways or street and local roads. Administrative challenges include site access for personnel, subcontractors, materials, and equipment, minimizing FOD risk, as well as communication with air traffic control all making airfield construction difficult. Addressing these challenges coupled with process control to meet low construction tolerance is a must. This presentation will share some of the unique challenges of airfield paving and how to address them. Various items from project planning to close out will be discussed.
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM – Effects of Diamond Grinding on Airfield Pavements (Jeff Stempihar, Associate, NCE)
This presentation will share key findings from a recent Airport Concrete Pavement Technology Program (ACPTP) project. The research comprehensively investigated the impacts of diamond grinding on concrete airfield pavements and identified best practices. The results provide direct guidance for FAA, Tri-Services, and airport operators to enhance grinding specification development and airfield operations.
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM – BREAK
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM – Using Section 50 Control of Work (Harold Muniz-Ruiz, FAA)
For successful completion of airfield paving projects many times engineering judgement must be used. This lesson will provide the attendees with how Section 50 Control of Work is intended to allow for engineering judgement in acceptance of airfield pavement construction.
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Charlotte Douglas International Airport- Airfield Concrete Program Overview (Ashton Watson, Airport Engineering Program Director, Charlotte Douglas International Airport)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – LUNCH
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – Load buses and travel to runway construction site
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM – Project tour
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM – Load buses and return to hotel