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Date(s): February 19, 2004
Location: Audio/Web Broadcast
Cost: Members: $150.00
Non Members: $150.00
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Description: If not restored properly, utility cuts lead to rapid deterioration of pavement surfaces, resulting in frequent repairs and reducing the life of the roadway. Pavement heaving, surface cracks and trenching translate directly into citizen complaints and increased repair costs.
Speaker: H.A. (Alan) Todres, P.E.

Alan is an engineering consultant in private practice. His professional experience extends over 37 years, and includes engineering research and teaching (soils, materials, pavements); road design (pavement structural design, geometric design, materials); and road construction (resident engineer), all for substantial periods. Since about 1985 he has had considerable (and increasing) work related to utility cuts, which has included:

  • theoretical work aimed at better understanding their mechanics and suggesting improved strategies for repair;

  • field work related to developing and improving QA/QC methodologies for cut restoration;

  • laboratory investigations related to cut performance, recycling of cut materials, improving properties of marginal materials, etc.;

  • field experimental work related to measuring structural effects of cuts on pavements;

  • consultation work and litigation support related to effects of utility cuts on pavement structural integrity and life;

  • providing engineering advice to a group of sponsors (and, by extension, the Steering Committee as a whole) of a major, multi-year research project on utility cuts, since its inception, being conducted by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC). He has been requested by the USACE to act as an external reviewer of the reports that form their portion of this project.

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    Speaker: Tim Martin, P.E.

    Since joining BRE (Now Fugro) in 1995, Mr. Martin has been involved in the research of pavement design and performance. He has been responsible for supervising and conducting the evaluation and/or design of numerous pavement projects. Mr. Martin has been responsible for numerous structural evaluations of pavements including highways, city streets, airfields, and port facilities. These analyses range from projections of remaining life to design of rehabilitation alternatives and pavement management services. Recently, he has been responsible for implementing pavement management systems for numerous cities and has personally conducted over 1000 pavement condition surveys.



    As Co-Principal for the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Long Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program Southern Region Coordination Office, he also served as distress coordinator and managed the identification, selection, and verification and monitoring of test sections for study under the LTPP program. As part of this responsibility, Mr. Martin conducts quality assurance on all data related to these LTPP test sections, including materials data, roughness measurements, visual distress, traffic, friction, maintenance and rehabilitation data.



    Mr. Martin is an active member in the Travis Chapter of TSPE and was awarded the Young Engineer of the Year award by the Travis Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. He has served on the board in many different capacities for over 7 years and currently presides as President.
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