Highway Quality Compendium

January 2007

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Table of Contents

• Foreword

Building Quality into Highways

• New NHI Course Presents Strategies for Managing Construction Workmanship
  Focus, July 2006
  
• Highways for LIFE: Changing the Way Today's Infrastructure Is Built
  Focus, September 2005
  
• Dispelling Highway Construction Myths
  Peter Kopac, Public Roads, May/June 2005
• What If We Changed the Way Highways Are Built?
  Charles Churilla, Public Roads, May/June 2004
• The Future Is Now
  Kathleen Bergeron, Public Roads, May/June 2004

Quality Assurance

• The Road to Quality Assurance
  Focus, April 2006
  
• Percent Within Limits: The Quality Measure of Choice
  Focus, March 2006
  
• A Brief History of Highway Quality Assurance
  Richard M. Weed, TR News, November/December 2005
  
• Maintenance Quality Assurance: Learning from Your Peers
  Focus, November 2004

Performance Standards and Performance Warranties

• The Case for Performance Standards
  Cheryl Allen Richter, Public Roads, May/June 2004
• Pavement Warranties Yield Innovation, Quality
  Focus, January/February 2003
• Pavement Warranties: Learning from the European Experience
  Focus, January/February 2003

Customer Satisfaction

• Helping Roadway Contractors Fulfill Public Expectations
  Kathleen Bergeron, Public Roads, March/April 2006
  
• Sometimes Quality Is in the Eye of the Beholder
  Kathleen Bergeron, Public Roads, May/June 2004

National Partnership for Highway Quality

• Conference Captures the Many Faces of Highway Quality
  Focus, April 2006
• Iowa Launching
  Bob Templeton, Roads & Bridges, February 2006
  
• A Commitment to Quality
  Dennis Merida, Roads & Bridges, January 2004

Asset Management

• Asset Management: Working for You
  Dave Geiger, Focus, December 2005
• Formula for Success
  Jim Sorenson, Public Roads, November/December 2005
  

Accelerated Construction

• ACTT Now
  Focus, October 2005
• Teaming Up to Accelerate Lake Washington's Floating Bridge Project
  Focus, May 2004
• Project Pegasus: TxDOT Accelerates the Reconstruction of Dallas Interstate
  Focus, October 2003
  

Asphalt

• Asphalt's Generation of Change
  Tom Kuennen, Better Roads, November 2003
• Innovations in Hot-Mix Asphalt
  David Newcomb, Better Roads, November 2003

Concrete

• Advancing the Future of Concrete Pavement Technology
  Focus, August 2005
• Achieving Concrete's Full Potential
  Theodore R. (Ted) Ferragut, Dale Harrington, and Marcia Brink, Public Roads, July/August 2005
• Concrete Pavement Technology Program Introduces New and Improved Tools for Pavements
  Focus, December 2004
  

Publication No. FHWA-IF-07-012

NOTICE: This publication is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The report does not constitute a standard, specification, or regulation. The United States Government does not endorse products or manufacturers. Trade or manufacturers' names appear in the publication only because they are considered essential to the object of this document.