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User Guidelines for Waste and Byproduct Materials in Pavement Construction
This document provides information about the use of 19 waste and byproduct materials in six major highway applications. Each material is described (origin, current management options, market sources, and general uses). Detailed information is also given about their use in specific highway applications (performance records. processing, requirements, engineering properties, design considerations, construction procedures, unresolved issues). The document also lays out conceptual evaluation guidance issues (framework, environmental, costs) and describes the six major highway applications. Dr. Warren H. Chesner of Chesner Engineering. P.C. Robert J. Collins of Robert J. Collins & Associates, and Michael H. MacKay of John Emery Geotechnical Engineering Ltd. are the authors. This work was funded through cooperative agreement DTFH61-95-C-00035 to Chesner Engineering, P.C. from FHWA. It is also available as publication number FHWA-RO-97-148 and can be seen on-tine at http://tfhrc.gov/hnr20/recycle/waste/begin.htm.

Waste and Recycled Materials in the Transportation Industry NCHRP 4-21 Database
This database contains information on 21 waste and recycled materials. Information includes photographs of the materials, general information, production and use data, engineering properties data, environmental properties data. suitable highway applications, laboratory testing, field testing, references and points of contact. The work was sponsored by AASHTO in cooperation with the FHWA and conducted under the auspices of the National Highway Cooperative Research Program which is administered by the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council. The authors are Dr. Warren H. Chesner, P.E., Christopher Stein, Robert J. Collins, and Lynette Van Helden of Chesner Engineering. P.C. Supporting technical information was provided by Michael H. MacKay, RE. of John Emery Geotechnical Engineering Ltd. The work was conducted under NCHRP contract HR4-21 to Chesner Engineering.

Framework for Evaluating Use of Recycled Materials in the Highway Environment
This document, a follow-on to the User Guidelines and NCHRP 4-21 projects, provides a consensus framework for state transportation and environmental regulators to evaluate the prospective use of recycled materials in the highway environment. A logical framework is provided with issues identification, preliminary screening, laboratory testing, and field testing stages. A variety of approval and material modification steps are also offered. Extensive test methods and applicable standards or criteria (both materials and environmental) are given for the laboratory and field testing stages. An Expert Review Panel, consisting of experts from the highway community and state agency personnel, helped craft the approach. The document was authored by Dr. Taylor Eighmy of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and Dr. Warren H. Chesner of Chesner Engineering, P.C. this work was funded by cooperative agreement DTFH61-97-X-00020 to UNH from the FHWA, It can be seen on-line at http://www.rmrc.unh.edu/Partners/Framework/Start/start.htm.

Pavement Life-cycle Assessment Tool for Environmental and Economic Effects
PaLATE is an Excel-based tool for life-cycle assessment (LCA) of environmental and economic effects of pavements and roads. The tool takes user input for the design, initial construction, maintenance, equipment use, and costs for a roadway, and provides outputs for the life-cycle environmental effects and costs. Who should use PaLATE? Pavement designers, transportation agency decision-makers, civil engineers, and researchers are the intended users of this tool. Users should have a working knowledge of pavements and a desire to learn more about the environmental and economic implications of their decisions. PaLATE users may enter data about an existing, proposed, or hypothetical roadway to determine the environmental and economic effects of their decisions
PaLATE Website: http://construction.berkeley.edu/%7Ehorvath/palate.html