Cooperation Helps Create International Recycling Report
FHWA's Office of Engineering
R&D played a major role in the publication of a new Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) roadway recycling report. Recycling Strategies
for Road Works presents the status of recycling for road construction and rehabilitation,
and assesses the use of by- product materials and waste management and recycling
policies in OECD member countries. This new report builds on OECD's 1977 publication,
Use of Waste Materials and By- Products in Road Construction, which helped establish
recycling of waste and by-product materials.
In 1995, OECD formed a Scientific Expert Group whose goal was to generate information that would promote recycling of waste and by-products from roads and road building. Charles J. Nemmers, Director of the Office of Engineer- ing R&D, was appointed president of the group. Over the next 18 months, the group members conducted surveys, gathered information, and met to identify and assess workable technologies (winners) and provide information on each technology including specifications for its use.
Lou Colucci and Marcia Simon from the Special Projects and Engineering Division provided technical oversight and international work flow management needed to develop the final report in short order. Most of the work that created the report was done through electronic transfer of files and data, along with maintaining e-mail contact with the technical editing committee. Transmittal of files from Japan and Europe to the editing group at TFHRC became standard practice.
The report was accepted by OECD
for publication. The report is avail-
able through OECD publication
channels (www.oecd.org). --
Marcia Simon, marcia.simon@fhwa.dot.gov
-- Sue Lane
Concrete Testing Trailer Goes to South America
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| A revamped trailer prepares to leave Fematec. | |
With funding from the Office of International Programs and the Pan American Institute of Highways, the FHWA truck was shipped to Argentina where it was refurbished. New concrete testing equipment was loaned or donated by several U.S. firms, including Troxler Electronic Laboratories; Gilson, Inc.; Humboldt Manufacturing Co.; and Spa Steel Products.
The Argentine Portland Cement
Institute is the trailer's sponsor, and
is paying for the engineers traveling
with the truck. In May, the trailer
was demonstrated at Fematec, a
huge construction materials trade
show in
Buenos Aires
attended by
110,000 people.
After Fematec,
the truck was
driven 1000 km
to San Juan,
Argentina, for
a road maintenance training
program,
Provial, sponsored by the
Pan American Institute of Highways. There, nearly 200 transportation professionals from several
Latin American countries learned
about the trailer's capabilities. Next,
it will be visiting Uruguay, then
Chile.
-- Tere Franceschi, (202) 366-9775.
