A UM-Flint project was among those named by the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) as a recipients of its 20th Annual "Excellence in Concrete Pavement Awards,” the concrete pavement industry’s most prestigious recognition of quality in concrete pavement placement and rehabilitation.
The Kearsley Street Reconnect, completed in late 2008, was selected after competing locally and nationally with hundreds of excellent projects, according to the ACPA. The new street was chosen as the Silver Winner in the Municipal Streets & Intersections category.
The Awards recognize the contractors, engineers, and owners whose efforts yielded the best pavements in airports, highways, and street and road applications in 2008, as determined by an independent panel of judges.

The project was funded by a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
The awards program cites Gold- and Silver-level projects for quality, efficiency, smoothness, reduced cost