Project’s name: Tropical-PAV Road paving solutions for tropical climates

Abstract

R&D project developed in co-promotion by two companies of the construction sector and four entities of the Portuguese scientific and technological system, grouped under the Portuguese Construction Technological Platform, which aims at assessing the performance of road paving solutions in tropical climate countries by building a real-scale traffic simulator at LNEC.

Starting date: 01-01-2014

Completion date: 30-06-2015

Budget: 706.400,70€ global (64.713,97€ for UMinho)

Team:
Elevo: Paulo Fonseca, Carla Guimarães, Célio Santos, Daniela Palha, Jaime Delgado, Margarida Brás, Vitor Antunes
Mota-Engil: Vanessa Almeida, João Afonso, António Oliveira, Raquel Ferreira, Nuno Almeida
CTAC-EEUM: Paulo Pereira, Hugo Silva, António Gomes Correia, Jorge Pais, Joel Oliveira, Elisabete Freitas
LNEC: Ana Cristina Freire, Maria de Lurdes Antunes, Fátima Batista, José Reimão, Simona Fontul, Eduardo Coimbra
IST-UL: Luís Picado Santos, José Coelho das Neves, Patrícia Ferreira
UC: Arminda Almeida

Consortium: Centro do Território, Ambiente e Construção (CTAC); Universidade de Coimbra; Instituto Superior Técnico (Universidade de Lisboa); Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil; Elevolution Engenharia; Mota-Engil Engenharia e Construção.​

More information: http://www.elevogroup.com/pt/portfolio/projeto-tropical-pav/