Since 1988, the Village has utilized a pavement management program (MicroPAVER, formally PAVER) to determine our street maintenance priorities.  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers developed MicroPAVER at their Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois. 

The process involves a consultant inspecting pavement sections on approximately one-third of the Village maintained streets per year and inputting the inspection results into the MicroPAVER program. The Engineering Department staff reviews the report and visually inspects the Village maintained streets and compares the consultant report with visual inspection.  This program has been very effective over the years. 

The present pavement maintenance management practices involve street reconstruction, resurfacing, rehabilitation, limited street patching, and crack filling.  With the additional technologies that are available, we are proposing to add more surface patching and preventive maintenance surface treatment to the pavement management program. 

The ultimate goal is to have one pavement maintenance management system that includes:

• All roadway maintenance including but not limited to streets to be resurfaced, reconstructed, crack filled, pavement patching, and any other proposed surface treatment,  

• Improved methods for visual review of consultant collected data,

• Additional modeling of the effects of current and possible new surface patching and preventative maintenance surface treatments, and

• Ability to run multi-year work plans to improve the effectiveness and versatility of pavement management system.

The Engineering Department solicited proposals for Pavement Management Services from the following firms:

RECOMMENDATION:

It is recommended that the Village Board award a contract to Infrastructure Mgmt. Services of Rolling Meadows, IL for the 2014 Pavement Management Program in the amount of $22,400.00.  Funding for these services are available in account 101-5001-524.20-05.