John Kennedy is an independent pavement engineering consultant specializing in the use of hydraulic binders and pozzolans to produce environmentally, energy and cost efficient long life pavements.
 
Selected Papers & Presentations

Selected Papers & Presentations.

JJK Pavement Consulting

Selected Papers & Presentation

 
1983. Cement-bound materials for sub-bases and roadbases. Cement and Concrete Association, 46.027. Revised British Cement Association, 2000
1988. Phosphoric slag for roadbases and sub-bases. Data sheet 9. Civil & Marine Ltd, Purfleet, Essex, UK.
1989. Slag bound roadbases. 10th National Workshop on Engineering a Better Pavement, Institution of Highways and Transportation, Royal Leamington Spa, England
1991, September. Developments with hydraulic binders. Port and Heavy Duty Pavements. The Institution of Civil Engineers. University of Nottingham.
1993. ‘Pavement Quality Concrete’. Proceedings of Conference on Road Making Materials. The Institution of Engineers of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
1994. Kennedy J and Oleson R W. The performance of roads reconstructed by cold in-situ recycling 1985-1987. General Information Report 17. ETSU, Harwell, UK.
1997. Energy minimisation in road construction and maintenance. General Information Report No 49. ETSU, Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK.
1999. Higgins DD and Kennedy J. ‘Lime and ground granulated blast-furnace slag stabilisation of boulder clay on the A412 Tingewick Bypass’. Proceedings 3rd European Symposium on the performance and durability of bituminous materials and hydraulic stabilized composites. University of Leeds, UK.
1999. ‘The mechanical behaviour, design and economics of FABM (fly ash bound mixtures) pavements’. Proceedings 3rd European Symposium on the performance and durability of bituminous materials and hydraulic stabilized composites. University of Leeds, UK.
1999. ‘Lime stabilisation in the UK’. Partek Nordkalk seminar on lime stabilisation. Malmo, Sweden.
2002, November. ‘Lime as an activator for coal fly ashes’. ERMI Workshop on industrial by-products in Infrastructure. UKK-Institute, Tampere, Finland.
2002, September. ‘Cement stabilization in the UK’. 1 day seminar on Soil stabilization. Institution of Engineers of Ireland. Dublin and Cork, Ireland.


Other Technical Contributions

1983. ‘Cement bound minestone – users guide for pavement construction’. Member of drafting working party. Minestone Services, Tyne and Wear, UK.
1991-2000. Technical organiser for British Lime Association seminars on the use of lime in road construction including lime/pfa and lime/slag combinations.
1992. Consultant to British Cement Association & Britpave re TRL work for DoT project: 'Factors affecting the long life design of flexible composite roads'. This resulted in changes to the DoT's pavement design document.
1992–97. Steering committee for DoT research project (LINK 1) 'Stabilised sub-bases in road foundations'. Published as TRL report 248.
1992–99. Steering committee for DoT research project (LINK 11) 'Enabling the use of secondary aggregates and binders in road foundations'. Published as TRL report 408.
1997. Consultant to TRL Highways Agency Project PR/CE/27/97 'Recommendations for the design of flexible composite pavements' by A R Parry.
1997-2003. Consultant to UKQAA for technical data sheets:
# Technical data sheet 6: Fly ash bound mixtures (FABM) for road & airfield pavements
# Technical data sheet 6.2: Laboratory mixture design for lime activated fly ash bound mixtures (FABM) for sub-base and roadbase
# Technical data sheet 6.3: The use of GFA (planings treated with lime and fly ash) for the A52 Kingsley to Froghall Reconstruction, Staffordshire
# Technical data sheet 6.4: Run-of-station PFA in CBM3/4/5
# Technical data sheet 6.5: LFA for capping and sub-base
# Technical data sheet 6.6: The structural design of GFA pavements for roads
# Technical data sheet 6.9: The role of PFA for enhanced stabilized capping

1999-/2000. Preparation of specification and guidance notes for hydraulically-bound materials/soils for BAA (British Airports Authority)
2000-2003. Technical consultant to British Lime Association for technical literature:
# Specification data sheet 1: Earthworks improvement
# Technical data sheet 3: Pavements.
Quarry Products Association, London, UK.

2001. Technical consultant to Pelt & Hooykaas for technical note:
# Flushing SBM (Slag Bound Mixture - origin Holland) – performance, economy & sustainability for pavements.
Euromin, Brighton, UK.