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Careful Planning/Innovative Staging Lead to Cost-Effective & Efficient Concrete Paving in Critical Corridor of Metro Areas

Careful planning has lead to innovative staging, as well as cost-effective and efficient concrete paving of U.S. 18/151 Verona Road Project, Stage 2 in Dane County and the Madison, Wisconsin, […]

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IGGA VIDEO: “CPP Helps Concrete Pavements Achieve Maximum Longevity”

Click image to go to VIDEO “Concrete Pavement Preservation (CPP)Helps Concrete Pavements Achieve Maximum Longevity”(www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=F4VYdj92EAc&feature=youtu.be) Concrete Pavement Preservation (CPP)Helps Concrete Pavements Achieve Maximum Longevity There can be a lot of

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Virtual “4th ICTG” to be Held May 24-27: Early-Bird Registration through Mar 31

REGISTRATION is now OPEN for the “4th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics” (“4th ICTG”), which will be held as a virtual event on May 24 – 27, 2021 hosted by

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TRANSTEC + Concrete Pavements: Nonwoven Geotextile Interlayers; Data Collection; Engineers Week; & Pavement Research

Nonwoven Geotextile Interlayers in Concrete Pavements Improve Pavement Performance while Reducing Costs: Improving Pavement in America Pavement engineers are constantly seeking out proven innovative concepts with the potential to improve

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Indian Gov’t. Stresses Need for All Roads to be PCPs + Paper: “Theoretical Investigation on PCP as Sustainable Pavement Technology (SPT)”

Transport and Highways-Government of India is considering switching to cement concrete pavements and mainly pervious concrete pavements (PCP)s as the main transportation mode throughout India versus flexible (asphalt) pavement. Stormwater

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ASCE 20-Yr. Research Report Warns Infrastructure Underinvestment at Release of 2021 “Report Card for America’s Infrastructure”

An American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)‘sWEB CONFERENCE provided a high-level overviewof recent research that projects the toll of inactionif infrastructure investment levelsremain status quo over the next 20 years.

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18th IRF to be Held in Dubai Nov 7-10, 2021 … Call for Papers Will be Open ’til March 15!

Click to enlarge The 18th World Meeting & Exhibition of the International Road Federation (IRF) will be held November 7-10, 2021 at the Dubai World Trade Center in Dubai, UAE. Hosted

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Abstract: Using Reclaimed Asphalt for Sustainable Pervious Concrete Pavement Mixes

American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Online News called “SOURCE” recently posted a paper abstract titled “Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement as a Substitution to Natural Coarse Aggregate for the Production of

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TRB Concrete Pavement POSTER SESSION Touted 11 Papers at 2021 Virtual Annual Mtg

Standing Committee on Design and Rehabilitation of Concrete Pavements sponsored a POSTER SESSION during the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) 100th Annual Meeting – A Virtual Event – throughout January 2021.

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Face Masks Recycled with RCA for Pavement Base/Subbase Applications = Ductility, Flexibility & Strength

Research at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) in Melbourne, Australia paves the way for used face masks in recycled concrete. Researchers say they have shown that single-use disposable

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Unraveling Carbon Uptake in Concrete Pavements

The Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research finds natural carbon uptake in concrete could offset 5% of US pavement cement production emissions. Just along

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CP Tech Center: Meet Board Member Kevin McMullen; 2020 Holiday VIRTUAL Meetings, Webinars, Lunch & Learns … Local & ‘Traveling’

Meet Board Member Kevin McMullen: When the National Concrete Pavement Technology Center (CPTech Center)‘s Executive Board of Directors considers which initiatives can make the greatest impact, the voices of professionals working in the

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First-Place Winner in LTTP Data Analysis Student Contest: Fengdi Guo, PhD Student & MIT CSHub Research Assistant

Pavement deterioration takes many forms. It can manifest in almost imperceptible flaws, like surface roughness, to much more evident distresses, such as web-like alligator cracks. While the causes of these

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4 One-Page PEM Test Guidance Flyers NOW AVAILABLE!

The performance-engineered-mixtures (PEM) approach to concrete design is increasing traction around the country and one beloved benefit is the greater pavement durability at lower cost! To justify the cost of

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Concrete Overlays History: Greater than Century Long & Quite Successful—Bettering Our Roadways & Advancing Our Industry

The first concrete pavementswere placed in 1892 & 1893 Early 1900’s: May surprise people to know that the first documented use of concrete to resurface pavements dates back to 1901!

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EDC Initiative Publication: “Targeted Overlay Pavement Solutions (TOPS)” for Backlogged Infrastructure Needs

“Every Day Counts (EDC-6)” Initiative Publication.Click to download 6-page ‘single-page-flyer’ PDF. Many of the pavements in the United States’ highway system have reached or are approaching the end of their

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EUPAVE Advocates for Life-Cycle Approach in TEN-T Proposal

On December 9, 2020, the European Concrete Paving Association (EUPAVE) and Petar Vitanov, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), held an online European Union (EU) Debate on “Green Deal: the

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PAPER: “Numerical Evaluation of Early-Age Crack Induction in CRCP with Different Saw-Cut Dimensions Subjected to External Varying Temperature Field”

Applied Sciences published paper by Muhammad Kashif, Ahsan Naseem , Nouman Iqbal, Pieter De Winne, and Hans De Backer: Department of Civil Engineering, Ghent University, Technologiepark 60, Zwijnaarde, B-9052 Ghent,

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CP Tech/ACPA Webinar Jan. 12, 2021: “Pavement Preservation—Dowel Bar Retrofit (DBR) & Diamond Grinding”: J. Roberts, IGGA & J. Echelle, OK Turnpike Auth.

WEBINAR: “Pavement Preservation—Dowel Bar Retrofit (DBR) & Diamond Grinding”Tuesday   |   January 12   |   12:00 NOON – 1:00 pm CDTREGISTRATION: https://go.acpa.org/cp-tech-center-2020 The American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA)

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User Group Focuses on AASHTO’s Pavement ME Design & 2022 Online Plans

A Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design user group met the week of December 7, 2020, in a 3-day web conference with about 200 participants, to discuss ongoing developments with AASHTOWare (American Association

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