Reference number : GC-2017-Q4-00092, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Baaj, Hassan (University of Waterloo), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Collaborative Research and Development Grants - Project, program name french : Subventions de recherche et développement coopérative - projet, program purpose english : The Canadian road network consists approximately 1.04 million km of paved and unpaved roads. Among these 800,000 km, or 75% are low-volume roads servicing less than 1,000 vehicles/day. Low-volume roads (LVR) are mainly oriented toward rural road systems and are very important for social and economic development in Canada. One of the key challenges of the pavement engineers is developing a cost effective pavement structure with good long-term performance of the LVRs.The main objective of this project is to find innovative, sustainable and cost effective initial construction and maintenance solutions for LVRs by addressing long-term performance under Canadian environment. The R&D work will focus on two main techniques to build LVRs using Hydraulic Road Binders (Subgrade Stabilization and Full Depth Reclamation). These techniques allow using existing in-place materials (soils and damaged pavements) and recycled materials, which minimizes the use of non-renewable aggregate resources. This system is also a sustainable practice as it increases the strength of the granular layer allowing for a thinner pavement structure for an equivalent pavement design. These types of binders used in these techniques would then allow important savings in the material cost, as well as, a significant reduction of CO2 emissions and decrease in the use of raw materials.The scientific advances will assist road engineers and designers in the use of HRBs in road construction and make them aware of greener alternatives and less expensive solutions to road construction. The cost reduction will be beneficial for tax payers and municipalities and the environmental impact of longer lasting roads and reduction in the use of non-renewable resources will be positive for the society in general., program purpose french : The Canadian road network consists approximately 1.04 million km of paved and unpaved roads. Among these 800,000 km, or 75% are low-volume roads servicing less than 1,000 vehicles/day. Low-volume roads (LVR) are mainly oriented toward rural road systems and are very important for social and economic development in Canada. One of the key challenges of the pavement engineers is developing a cost effective pavement structure with good long-term performance of the LVRs.The main objective of this project is to find innovative, sustainable and cost effective initial construction and maintenance solutions for LVRs by addressing long-term performance under Canadian environment. The R&D work will focus on two main techniques to build LVRs using Hydraulic Road Binders (Subgrade Stabilization and Full Depth Reclamation). These techniques allow using existing in-place materials (soils and damaged pavements) and recycled materials, which minimizes the use of non-renewable aggregate resources. This system is also a sustainable practice as it increases the strength of the granular layer allowing for a thinner pavement structure for an equivalent pavement design. These types of binders used in these techniques would then allow important savings in the material cost, as well as, a significant reduction of CO2 emissions and decrease in the use of raw materials.The scientific advances will assist road engineers and designers in the use of HRBs in road construction and make them aware of greener alternatives and less expensive solutions to road construction. The cost reduction will be beneficial for tax payers and municipalities and the environmental impact of longer lasting roads and reduction in the use of non-renewable resources will be positive for the society in general., agreement title english : Improvement of long-term performance of low volume road using hydraulic road binders, agreement title french : Improvement of long-term performance of low volume road using hydraulic road binders, agreement number : CRDPJ, agreement value : 100000.0, agreement start date : 2018-01-10, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2019-2020)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2019-2020)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada