ECOLANES - Industry Seminar

EcoLanes is an FP6 STREP project, funded under the priority thematic area of Sustainable Surface Transport , FP6-2005-Transport-4 call 3B . The project consortium engages Universities, Industrial Partners, End-users and the European Tyre Recycling Association, with five EU member states and one EU candidate country.

The key area and activity code associated with EcoLanes is SUSTDEV 2.6: design and manufacture of new construction concepts for road, rail, waterborne and inter-modal infrastructures .

The project will develop infrastructure for surface transport using slip forming and roller compaction techniques based on existing asphalt laying equipment and steel fibre reinforced concrete. The benefits of the new construction concept will be manifold, such as to reduce construction costs by 10-20%, reduce construction time by 15%, reduce the energy consumption in road construction by 40%, minimise maintenance, use waste materials in road construction and make tyre recycling more economically attractive.

To achieve its objectives, the project draws expertise from six countries and will have to overcome serious scientific and technological barriers in fibre processing, concrete manufacture and road design. The project will deliver new processes, design guidelines and full-scale demonstration projects in four diverse European climates and economies.

The seminar will present the research of the EU FP6 project “EcoLanes”, which aims to develop pavements for surface transport by using steel fibre reinforced concrete and slip forming techniques, based on existing asphalt laying equipment.

Programme:

Welcome and Overview of EcoLanes Project
(Professor Kypros Pilakoutas – University of Sheffield)
14:00 – 14:30

Tyre Recycling Technologies and Environmental Issues
(Dr Valerie Shulman – European Tyre Recycling Association)
14:30 – 15:00

Steel Fibre-Reinforced Roller-Compacted Concrete
(Dr Kyriacos Neocleous – The University of Sheffield)
15:00 – 15:30

Long-Lasting Rigid Road Pavements
(Professor Radu Andrei - Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi" Iasi)
16:00 – 16:30
15:30 – 16:00 Break

Whole Life Cycle Costing and Environmental Assessment
(Dr. Laura Dumitrescu - Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi" Iasi)
16:30 – 17:00

Travel Information

By Air : You may reach Rome by air, through
- Fiumicino Airport, linked to the city by Train directed to TERMINI Rail Station (30 minutes)
- Ciampino Airport, linked to the city by bus
Website : www.adr.it

By train: The main Rail Station is TERMINI. For more information about trains and arrivals see the website: www.trenitalia.it

By car:
website : www.romeguide.it - www.tuttocitta.it

Local Transport:
website : www.metroroma.it

Additional Information
Information about Rome and the surrounding region can be found at
website : www.romaturismo.it

Hotel Information

We have reserved up to 20 single rooms in the two following hotels. You may book within May 11th, by using the format you may download from the web site www.adria-abruzzo.it. The two Hotels are very close each other, and both very close (walking distance) to TERMINI Rail Station.

Hotel Galles
Via Castro Pretorio 66, Roma
Phone + 39 06 4454741 - Fax +39 06 4456993
e-mail : anna@phh.it
- single standard room at Euro 139,00
- single superior room at Euro 155,00
Reservation form ( download )

Hotel Royal Santina
Via Marsala 22, Roma
Phone +39 06 448751 - Fax +39 06 4941252
- single superior room at Euro 149,00
Reservation form ( download )