With one month to go until the Australian Concrete Pavements Association (ASCP) 2015 Concrete Pavements Conference on Monday and Tuesday, July 20-21, 2015 at the Breakfree Aanuka Beach Resort in Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia, ASCP is delighted to announce details of two Monday Keynote Presentations:
Monday morning, Bob Higgins, General Manager, Pacific Highway, Roads and Maritime Services NSW will present “Pacific Highway – Where we’ve come from and where we are going”. The Australian and NSW governments have been jointly upgrading the Pacific Highway to provide a four-lane divided road from Hexham to the Queensland border. Upgrading started in 1996, with 2020 identified as the targeted completion date. Bob will discuss what has been upgraded and is being constructed; what is currently in the development phase; and what will be designed and constructed between now and 2020.
Monday afternoon, Peter Wellings, Major Projects Executive, WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff and Deputy Project Director, Pacific Complete, will present “Woolgoolga to Ballina – A new delivery method”. The Pacific Complete consortium, comprising Laing O’Rourke and Parsons Brinckerhoff, has been appointed the Delivery Partner for the upgrade of 155 kilometres of the Pacific Highway from Woolgoolga to Ballina. This is the first project in Australia to be executed under the Delivery Partner model, as used for the London Olympics infrastructure. Peter will outline the project and the delivery method.
Other Conference News:
Updated Conference brochure: ASCP announces the updated Conference brochure, which includes the two Keynote Presentations on Monday, as well as a couple of other changes. Unfortunately, John Roberts, International Grooving and Grinding Association, is now unable to attend. A new paper “New method for paving concrete” by Victor Vyrodov & Steve Latham has been included, and the program adjusted accordingly.
International Presenters: ASCP is most pleased to be able to include a number of papers which will be delivered by international concrete pavement specialists:
- Three directors from the International Society for Concrete Pavements (ISCP):
- Neeraj Buch, ISCP President, Professor & Chairperson, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering-Michigan State University, USA
- Juan Pablo Covarrubias, ISCP Director, Civil Engineer, TC Pavements-Chile
- Peter Taylor, ISCP Director, Associate Director, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center-Ames, Iowa, USA
- Jim Grove, ATI Inc.-Iowa, USA, and recently retired Director of ISCP
- Julian Dann, GOMACO Corporation
- Gary Fick, Trinity Construction Management Services, USA
- Alan Ross, BOSFA-NZ
ISCP is also represented by two of their Australian Directors: Dr Anna-Carin Brink, AECOM-WA and George Vorobieff, RMS NSW.
The ISCP and ASCP Directors will meet the day following the Conference to discuss matters of mutual interest and cooperation.
Conference Numbers close to Capacity: ASCP is delighted to have received excellent interest in its 2015 Concrete Pavements Conference. Current registrations are already over 140. Our capacity limit is dictated by the capacity of the function room for the Conference Dinner Function. With allowance for ASCP and Sponsor guests for this dinner, the room capacity of around 165 is quickly being approached.
Conference Sponsors: ASCP gratefully acknowledges the support of its Conference Sponsors as detailed in the brochure.
For the updated brochure, please click here.
Please see ISCP April 14, 2015 article on the ISCP website, please click here.
For the conference website, please click here.