November 5th
Close to home in Ames Iowa, the CP Tech Center cohosted with the Iowa Concrete Paving Association the “2019 Municipal Streets Seminar” for around 130 attendees.
November 6th & 7th
Gordon Smith, CP Tech Center, Dr. Hamed Sadati, Assistant Scientist, and four Super Air Meters (SAMs) traveled from Iowa to Buffalo, New York, to participate in a “SAM Test-Training Course” led by Jake LeFlore, Oklahoma State University. The first day, LeFlore provided a thorough background on SAM technology: its need, value, and mechanics. Then participants experienced a day of hands-on trial SAM testing at NYSDOT’s District Materials Facility.
The training was offered through the “Performance-Engineered Mixtures (PEM) Pooled Fund Initiative at the request of the New York State ACPA chapter. Nearly 20 NYSDOT, ready-mixed concrete, paving industry, and cement industry representatives joined together to take advantage of the in-depth training opportunity.
November 13th
In the online world, Taylor and Tom Yu, FHWA, hosted a webinar with speakers Gary Fick and Dave Merritt, The Transtec Group-Austin, TX, on the topic of “Guidelines for Building Smooth Concrete Pavements.”
November 12th
On his way home from New York, Smith stopped in Cleveland, Ohio, to present “Performance Engineering Mix Designs—Delivering Concrete to Survive Our Environment” at Northeast Ohio Concrete’s Seminar entitled “For the Love of Concrete”. Despite significant snowfall overnight, more than 80 participants gathered at Cleveland’s BASF Facility for a day-long session that provided insight on a wide variety of concrete-related topics.
November 14th
The “2019 Iowa Better Concrete Conference” was co-hosted by the The CP Tech Center, the Iowa Chapter of the American Concrete Institute, the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT), the Iowa Concrete Paving Association, the Iowa Ready Mixed Concrete Association, the Portland Cement Association (PCA), and Iowa State University’s Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering for around 160 attendees.
November 15th
Peter Taylor and Jerod Gross traveled to Jefferson City, Missouri to present a “Technology Transfer Concrete Consortium (TTCC) Workshop” for about 50 Missouri DOT (MoDOT) staff on the CP Tech Center’s recently published Integrated Materials and Construction Practices for Concrete Pavement (IMCP) Manual.
ABSTRACT: At the heart of all concrete pavement projects is the concrete itself. This manual is intended as both a training tool and a reference to help concrete paving engineers, designers, quality control personnel, contractors, suppliers, technicians, and tradespeople bridge the gap between the most recent research and practice to optimize the performance of concrete for pavements.
With the first edition published at the end of 2006, this second edition provides an update and refresh to help users of this guide do the following:
- Understand concrete pavement construction as a complex, integrated system involving several discrete practices that interrelate and a ect one another in various ways
- Understand and implement technologies, tests, and best practices to identify materials, concrete properties, and construction practices that are known to optimize concrete performance
- Recognize factors that lead to premature distress in concrete and learn how to avoid or reduce those factors
- Quickly access how-to and troubleshooting information
This second edition includes a new chapter on the Basics of Concrete Pavement Sustainability and a chapter that was merged into one from two chapters in the first edition (Preparation for Concrete Placement and Construction). For the CP Tech manual, please click on the image above right, or go to: https://cptechcenter.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4bf55bc365dca0e5c928442da&id=3701dc2baf&e=2945805a7f
November 18th & 19th
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, Taylor and Smith chaired a productive “Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting” for the PEM pooled fund. It was good to hear how states are adopting program recommendations and to hear about their needs for future work.
November 20th
Immediately after the PEM TAC Meeting, Smith and Gross continued traveling north to St. Cloud, Minnesota, to present a day-long TTCC Workshop for about 20 Minnesota DOT (MnDOT) employees, covering the topics of cement-based pavement systems and concrete overlays.
They were joined by Corey Zollinger, CEMEX, who offered insight and information on cement-based alternatives for bases and pavements.