JUNE was another busy travel month for the National Concrete Pavement Technology Center (CP Tech Center)—the national hub for concrete pavement research and technology transfer founded in 2000, and has been instrumental in developing and helping to advance the nation’s strategic plan for concrete pavement research, the CP Road Map.
June 5:
Gordon Smith, Associate Director-CP Tech Center joined California’s highway agency and the paving industry in Sacramento, California, at the first of two Performance Engineered Mixtures (PEM) Open Houses featuring the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)’s Mobile Concrete Technology Center. Tom Van Dam, Team Member-PEM and Nichols Consulting Engineers, Chtd., represented the CP Tech Center a week later at a second similar open house in Fontana, California.
JUNE 11-13
Peter Taylor, Director-CP Tech Center and Director-ISCP; Steve Tritsch, Associate Director-CP Tech Center; and Gordon Smith participated in the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) Mid-Year Meeting sessions in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as introduced the newly published 2nd edition of the Integrated Materials and Construction Practices for Concrete Pavement: A state-of-the-practice manual.
JUNE 14
Gordon Smith and Jerod Gross, Project Manager-Snyder and Associates, Inc. provided a day of training to more than 70 agency and industry participants in a WORKSHOP held at the South Carolina DOT (SCDOT) in Columbia, South Carolina, covering the knowledge and tools needed for effective concrete pavement inspection.
JUNE 17-19
Steve Tritsch and Eric Ferrebee, Technical Service Director-ACPA, presented on a wide range of pavement preservation approaches to approximately 50 attendees at San Juan’s FHWA-sponsored Pavement Preservation Summit-College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico.
JUNE 18
Peter Taylor and Gordon Smith joined Jim Mack, Chairman-ACPA, along with Jerry Voigt, President and CEO-ACPA, Gary Mitchell, Director-Airport Pavement Technology-ACPA, and Leif Wathne, Executive Vice President-ACPA, at the National Airport Pavement Test Facility (FAA-NAPTF) near Atlantic City, New Jersey, to explore with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials the potential for CP Tech Center/FAA collaboration.
MAPS:
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Color (states visited): https://www.thoughtco.com/smallest-states-in-the-united-states-4071971