The International Road Federation recognizes Brazil, State of Rio de Janeiro, as the
recipient of its Maintenance Management Award for its project that used an asphalt
rubber friction course and overlay for the first time in the country. For additional
information about this project, contact Dr. Kamil Kaloush, Arizona State University,
kamil.kaloush@asu.edu; George Way, Rubberized Asphalt Foundation, gbway@rafoundation.org; or Dr. Jorge Sousa, Consulpav, jmbsousa@aol.com. The award winners will be officially recognized at the Annual IRF Awards Luncheon, which will be held
during the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in
Washington D.C. For more details, see www.irfnews.org. The following is some of the
background information about the project and the submission of the supporting
information about the project.
Project Nomination
Arizona State University, Rubberized Asphalt Foundation and Consulpav are pleased to
nominate the following State of Rio de Janeiro project for consideration of the IRF
Maintenance Management Award.
We are very pleased to nominate the State of Rio de Janeiro to be recognized for the
International Road Federation Maintenance Management Award category. The State of
Rio de Janeiro deserves this special recognition of the IRF award because they were
proactive in employing new technology, maintenance and associated project
management to address the rehabilitation of a severely distressed roadway, RJ122.
Before undertaking this laudable task, they did their due diligence of thoroughly
investigating the new technology and employing a high degree of quality control to
further reduce any potential risk of incorrectly using the new technology. They asked for,
and received, substantial assistance from many noted experts in the field of rubberized
asphalt. Additionally they asked for and received training on how to use the new
rubberized asphalt blending equipment. Modern standard tests of the rubberized
asphalt binder and mixtures were complimented with in-house practical laboratory
evaluations during the project. Post construction assessment included the use of falling
weight deflectometer and in-situ heavy vehicle simulator to estimate future performance.
The cost and environmental benefits of using this new technology enabled the
Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro to obtain up to $600 million dollars to
continue and expand the use of this new technology derived from the RJ 122 project.
For these reasons and many more, illustrated by the attached documents, we are
grateful to be able to nominate this very deserving and worthy project to the IRF Global
Road Achievement Awards.