1. Center of Excellence for Airport Technology A Partnership in Research and Outreach with the Federal Aviation Administration and the O’Hare Modernization Program David Lange and Bill Buttlar Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2. FAA, OMP and UIUC in partnership O’Hare Modernization Program Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Committee: Chris Arman, OMP Joe Depa, PMO Ross Anderson, Master Civil Mike Hanlon, Airline Rep FAA Sponsor: FAA Tech Ctr, Airport Tech R&D Branch Contacts: David Brill, FAA COE Program Mgr Satish Agrawal, Branch Manager Pat Watts, Director of COE Programs

3. FAA, OMP and UIUC in partnership O’Hare Modernization Program Federal Aviation Administration Subgrade issues Materials & Pavements Horticulture/Wildlife Outreach Subgrade & pavements Wildlife issues Anti-icing Outreach

4. UIUC team Faculty and Staff David Lange -- Director Ed Herricks -- Lead faculty Bill Buttlar -- Lead faculty Marshall Thompson Jeff Roesler Erol Tutumluer Leslie Struble John Popovics Bruce Branham Minosca Alcantara -- Outreach Eve Earles -- Chicago Outreach Vicki Dixon -- Asst to Director UIUC Students: Francis Nelson III Zach Grasley Rob Rodden Yi Shi Liu Cristian Gaedicke Salvador Villalobos Harkanwal S. Brar Matt D’Ambrosia Ben Birch Tongyan Pan Amanda Kiser Theresa Kissane Hyunwook Kim Ying Wang

5. Partners of FAA COE Program Northwestern University –Suru Shah assisted concrete research in previous years North Carolina A&T –Has contributed to minority internship program…Contacted to help in 2006 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute –Nadarajah Narendran leads Lighting Research Center, to pursue research on LED lighting for airports Embry Riddle -- Prescott, AZ –Archie Dickey contributes to FAA bird strike database

6. Our OMP Partner $6.6B program (Phase I) –35 miles of runways, taxiways –2.2M cu yds of PCC –29M cu yds of earthwork Modern, parallel runway configuration Massive earthmoving, construction, hydraulic, environmental impact challenges

7. Moving toward Parallel Runways

8. CEAT contributes to OMP in 2005 Illuminate technical issues… improve decisions! Subgrade stabilization study contributed to decisions that avoided additional test sections, saving over $100,000. Improved specification language for lime modification and lime stabilization, providing for improved construction quality and reduced potential for weather-related construction delays. Study of soil and turfgrass contributed to a decision to avoid import of topsoil to O’Hare, saving millions of dollars. Improved specification language to achieve longer pavement service life with more durable aggregates. Improved specification language to reduce shrinkage cracking potential. Strategies to reduce concrete cost compared to previous O’Hare mixtures, with potential to save over $100,000 on the 9L-27R new north runway. 20 Tech Notes covering wide range of issues

9. Pavement Research Program –Moisture curling of concrete slabs for airfield applications D.A. Lange and J.R. Roesler –Materials Testing for NAPTF Base/Subbase and Subgrade Layers E.Tutumluer –Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of Airfield Concrete Slabs J.R. Roesler –Fatigue in Airport Pavements S.H. Carpenter –Design of Flexible Overlay Systems for Asphalt Pavements: Phase II Advanced Model Development W.G. Buttlar FAA -- FY2005 Program

10. Wildlife Research Program –Bird Strike Advisory System Ed Herricks Outreach Program –Summer COE Internship Program for Minority Graduate Students D.A. Lange FAA -- FY2005 Program - CONT.

11. OMP -- 2006 Program Sub-grade Support and Stabilization (’05-‘06 Tech Project) –Tutumluer/ Thompson [OMP Contact: Ross Anderson] Materials/Potassium Acetate on ASR (’05 -’06 Tech Project) –Struble [OMP Contact: Michael Vonic] PCC Mix Designs (’05-‘06 Tech Project) –Roesler /Lange [OMP Contact: Ross Anderson] Field Validation of Constructed Subgrade and Pavement (’06 Tech Project) –Popovics [OMP Contact: Ross Anderson] Reflective Cracking and Grooving of Asphalt Overlays (’06 Tech Project) – Buttlar / Al-Qadi [OMP Contact: Dave Peshkin] Aggregate Testing (’06 Tech Project) –Tutumluer [OMP Contact: Ross Anderson] Airport Wildlife Safety Management (’06 Tech Project) –Herricks/Branham [OMP Contact: Larry Martin] Outreach Program – Minosca Alcantara/David Lange [OMP Contact: Joe Depa/ Larry Martin]

12. OMP Construction is underway… One CEAT project will install pavement instrumentation in Summer 2006 Area at junction of blue and red pavements will be paved in 2006 We will have access to install sensors in several slabs North Airfield Projects

13. 4 students interns in Summer 2005 36 attended Tech Transfer Workshop in May 2005 High School and Grade School Outreach Projects Minority & Women Owned Business Contractor Program with OMP Guest Speakers CEAT Outreach Highlights in 2005

14. Questions?