On December 21, 2018, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s Office of Airport Safety & Standards – Airport Engineering Division released the Advisory Circular (AC) 150/5370-10H: “Standard Specifications for Construction of Airports”. This AC cancels July 21, 2014’s AC 150/5370-10G, “Standards for Specifying Construction of Airports”.
The AC includes:
Purpose—The standard specifications contained in this AC relate to materials and methods used for for construction and rehabilitation projects on airports. Items covered in this AC include general provisions, earthwork, flexible base courses, rigid base courses, flexible surface courses, rigid pavement, fencing, drainage, turf, and lighting installation.
Application—A list of the FAA recommendations of the guidelines and specifications in this AC
Developing Project Specifications
Changes, Additions and Deletions to the FAA Standard Specifications
Principal Changes
Units
Where to Find this AC
Feedback on this AC
TABLE of CONTENTS:
PART 1 – GENERAL CONTRACT PROVISIONS
PART 2 – GENERAL CONSTRUCTION ITEMS
PART 3 – SITE WORK
PART 4 –BASE COURSES
PART 5 – STABILIZED BASE COURSES
PART 6 – FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS
PART 7 – RIGID PAVEMENT
PART 8– SURFACE TREATMENTS
PART 9– MISCELLANEOUS
PART 10 – FENCING
PART 11 – DRAINAGE
PART 12 – TURFING
PART 13 – LIGHTING INSTALLATION
The FAA worked closely with the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) Airport Task Force on the latest update to the construction guide specification, who provided many comments during the draft stage of the document, but also provided mark-up as the document advanced within the FAA. The ACPA Airport Task Force‘s purpose is to provide direction and help implement ACPA’s airport segment programs, including commercial airfields, FAA, military airfields managed by the Tri-Services—U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy—and the consulting firms involved in the design, construction, and rehabilitation of airport concrete pavements for military, commercial, and general aviation facilities.
Gary Mitchell, Vice President—Airports & Pavement Technology-ACPA said, “Most of ACPA’s suggestions were included in the proposed update to the specifications from 2014. Many of the suggested changes from aggregate requirements to slump requirements, were submitted with a red-line document in April 2016, while comments on smoothness requirements dated back to June 2013.” A new recycled concrete aggregate base course specification has been added based on work done under the Innovative Pavement Research Foundation (IPRF) research program. ACPA worked with an industry partner, Portland Cement Association (PCA), to offer input for a cement-treated, soil base course specification.
A small sub-task force met in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in December 2018 to begin marking up the 32 13 14.13 specifications with the intent to submit full industry recommended changes to the Transportation Systems Center (TSC) to parallel the similar effort on the FAA construction guide specification. The sub-task force group will meet with the TSC in January to go over the markup with the Tri-services.
For questions, please contact: Gary Mitchell: P: 704.904.9459 | E-mail: gmitchell@acpa.org
For the 716-page PDF of the Circular, please click on image top right, or go to: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/150-5370-10H.pdf
For the WORD version of the AC, please go to: https://www.faa.gov/airports/resources/advisory_circulars/index.cfm/go/document.information/documentID/1035128
If you have suggestions for improving this AC, you may use the Advisory Circular Feedback at the end of the AC by going to page v of the introduction pages and clicking on No. 9: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/150-5370-10H.pdf.