PAVEMENT CONSULTANTS INC.
Pavement Consultants Inc.
(PCI), a professional civil engineering company, was established in 1983. The firm was founded to provide specialized
expertise in pavement evaluation and management. PCI has become recognized throughout the
world for the quality of the technical services its staff provides. PCI has offices in Seattle,
Washington and Phoenix, Arizona.
Our
staff members have been providing pavement management and evaluation services
to airports since the early 1980s -
Jo Lary and Jay Sharma completed a pavement management study at Denver
Stapleton in 1982. This study was the
first of its kind in the U.S.
and paved the way for us to become leaders in the airport pavement management
field.
We have developed pavement management programs for many airports and
airport systems to make sure they comply with FAA’s pavement maintenance
management requirement. These projects
have required us to inspect more than a billion
square feet of airfield pavement. The
inspections were completed in accordance with the current editions of FAA
Advisory Circular 150/5380-6 and ASTM D 5340.
We have completed more than 100 pavement management projects for 29 individual airports and 10
pavement management projects for several state or county systems, including:
Sea-Tac International (WA)
Jean Sport Aviation Center (NV)
Renton Municipal (WA)
Overton – Perkins Field (NV)
Spokane International (WA)
North Las Vegas (NV)
Portland International (OR)
Henderson Executive (NV)
Portland Hillsboro
(OR)
Reno/Tahoe International (NV)
Portland Troutdale (OR)
Reno Stead (NV)
Portland Mulino (OR)
Boise (ID)
Eugene Mahlon Sweet Field (OR)
Pocatello Regional (ID)
State of Oregon
(62 airports)
· Friedman Memorial (ID)
Palm Springs International (CA)
· State of Idaho
(39 airports)
San Diego County (7 airports)
Kansas City International (MO)
State of California
(50 airports)
Kansas City Downtown (MO)
Phoenix Sky Harbor Int’l (AZ)
Wichita Mid-Continent (KS)
Phoenix Goodyear (AZ)
Colonel James Jabara (KS)
Phoenix Deer Valley (AZ)
Commonwealth of Virginia (51 airports)
Tucson International (AZ)
State of Hawaii
(4 airports)
McCarran International (NV)
North Bend Municipal (OR)
In addition to our pavement management projects, in the past 5 years we
have completed more than 10
0 pavement evaluation projects at 22 airports. On many of these projects we used our
state-of-the-art pavement evaluation equipment, the Heavy Falling Weight
Deflectometer (HWD). Our HWD has a loading
capacity that ranges from 6,000 to 55,000 pounds force, the highest of any
currently available equipment. The
capacity to load the pavement at up to 55,000 pounds force is advantageous
because it allows pavement response to be measured under simulated aircraft
wheel loads.
Our HWD
has been recently used to assess the load carrying capacity, estimate remaining
life, and identify rehabilitation alternatives for the pavements at several
airports.
We
conduct pavement-related research for government agencies, and teach
pavement-related training courses. Our
efforts in these areas have included:
Electrical Conduit Trench Failure Investigation and Repair
Recommendations -
Seattle-Tacoma International
Airport
· Cost-Benefit Study of the Effect of the Boeing 777
Loading at 40 Airports - FAA Technical Center / COMRISE Technology, Inc. / TRA
· PCC Pavement Performance - Washington State Department
of Transportation
· Pavement Rehabilitation Research - Washington State
Department of Transportation
· American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE)
Pavement Maintenance and Evaluation Workshops.
These are 1-1/2 day workshops that we organize and teach. We have been providing this training yearly
for the past 30 years.