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Project Categories


Divided Highways (Urban)

Interstate, tollway, and divided trunk highway projects of considerable size. This category includes mainline paving on divided highways, interstates and tollways constructed in urban areas with the majority of the project located within Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) boundaries.

Divided Highways (Rural)

Interstate, tollway, and divided trunk highway projects of considerable size. This category includes mainline paving on divided highways, interstates and tollways constructed in rural areas with the majority of the projects located outside the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) boundaries.

State Roads

Undivided two-lane and multi-lane rural highways. This category includes projects on state and U.S. routes that use strategies similar to the Divided Highways category.

County Roads

Rural low-volume roads, usually two-lane that do not have curb and gutter.

Municipal Streets & Intersections (<30,000 SY)

Projects that have curb & gutter, are within city or village limits, and are less than 30,000 square yards in size.

Municipal Streets & Intersections (>30,000 SY)

Projects that have curb & gutter, are within city or village limits, and are greater than 30,000 square yards in size.

Urban Arterials & Collectors

Major projects that are part of a metropolitan highway system and provide links between highways, interstates, or tollways.

Commercial Service & Military Airports

A commercial service airport is a public airport that enplanes 2,500 or more passengers annually and receives scheduled passenger service. Military airports are any active military facility used to operate aircraft.

Reliever & General Aviation Airports

An airport that has been designated to relieve congestion at large commercial service airports and provide alternative general aviation access to the overall community. A general aviation airport is an airport that remains after exclusion of the commercial service and reliever airport categories. If a project at a commercial service airport is for general aviation use only, the project is eligible for consideration in this category.

Concrete Pavement Preservation (Highways and Airfields)

Highway and airfield projects which included concrete pavement repair, preservation, or restoration utilizing any combination of full- and partial-depth repairs, joint and crack resealing, dowel bar retrofit, slab stabilization, cross stitching, retrofit PCC shoulders, retrofit edge drains, diamond grinding, and grooving.

Concrete Pavement Preservation (Streets and Local Roads)

Street and local road projects which included concrete pavement repair, preservation, or restoration utilizing any combination of full- and partial-depth repairs, joint and crack resealing, dowel bar retrofit, slab stabilization, cross stitching, retrofit PCC shoulders, retrofit edge drains, diamond grinding, and grooving.

Concrete Overlays (Airports)

This award recognizes a project based on its innovative use of concrete overlays for airports and includes any type of concrete overlay (i.e., bonded/unbonded concrete overlays of concrete pavements, bonded/unbonded concrete overlays of asphalt pavements, and bonded/unbonded concrete overlays of composite pavements).

Concrete Overlays (Highways)

This award recognizes a project based on its innovative use of concrete overlays for highways and includes any type of concrete overlay (i.e., bonded/unbonded concrete overlays of concrete pavements, bonded/unbonded concrete overlays of asphalt pavements, and bonded/unbonded concrete overlays of composite pavements).

Concrete Overlays (Streets and Roads)

This award recognizes a project based on its innovative use of concrete overlays for streets/roads and includes any type of concrete overlay (i.e., bonded/unbonded concrete overlays of concrete pavements, bonded/unbonded concrete overlays of asphalt pavements, and bonded/unbonded concrete overlays of composite pavements).

Industrial/Commerical Paving

This pavement award recognizes a project for design and construction of concrete pavement for trucking facilities, commercial distribution centers, warehouse truck parking facilities, truck stops, rest areas and other areas where trucks are the primary vehicles. Also, projects constructed for specialized cargo handling equipment such as; ports, rail yards, and other facilities functioning as a point of distribution of goods.

Roller Compacted Concrete (Industrial)

This pavement award recognizes a project for design and construction of roller compacted concrete for trucking facilities, commercial distribution centers, warehouse truck parking facilities, truck stops, rest areas and other areas where trucks are the primary vehicles. Also, projects constructed for specialized cargo handling equipment such as; ports, rail yards, and other facilities functioning as a point of distribution of goods.

Roller Compacted Concrete (Special Application)

This pavement award recognizes a project(s) for design and construction of roller compacted concrete for street, road, or airfield.