CONCRETE PAVEMENT PROGRESS 4 WWW.ACPA.ORG E D I T O R I A L The American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) is a contractor-led association, with strong partnerships from the cement, manufacturing and engineering sectors, focused on developing and protecting concrete pavement markets through education, advocacy, marketing and industry technical leadership. As part of our efforts, ACPA provides unlimited technical support and resources to agencies to help engineering professionals enhance their knowledge and understanding of quality concrete applications and innovations. To facilitate where to begin with learning more about concrete, here is a checklist of resources, most of them free of charge, for agencies and other professionals to help with professional development as it pertains to materials selection: • ACPA can help provide specification and technical consultation. All you have to do is reach out and develop a dialogue with ACPA National staff or ACPA’s Chapter State Executives. . ACPA’s Chief Engineer is Gary Mitchell. While Gary can help point you in the right direction, his specialty is aviation and tri-services consultation. Gary can personally assist or help connect you with the right technical expertise, including contacting the state chapter network where ACPA has representation. Gary can be reached at [email protected]. . ACPA’s Director of Technical Services is Eric Ferrebee. Eric’s focus is on highways, roads and streets and sustainability among other things. As one of the primary authors of ACPA’s White Paper on Sustainability, “Concrete Pavement’s Role in a Sustainable, Resilient Future,” (https://www.acpa. org/sustainability-white-paper/) Eric regularly interfaces with FHWA and state agencies across the country. He also is the primary service provider Unleashing the Concrete Advantage with ACPA’s Resources for PavementDesiger.org a free design tool noted below. Eric can be reached at [email protected]. • ACPA has free design tools like Pavement Designer that can help you develop and evaluate pavement designs. This is a great resource for cities, counties and other local agencies to be able to design concrete and cement-based pavements with the best models available. It’s also a good tool for consulting engineers to be able to design not just roadways, but parking lots and industrial facilities as well. Finally, PavementDesigner is being taught by numerous professors, which helps educate the next generation of pavement engineers. • Reduced Carbon Concrete Consortium (RC3)—the RC3 mentioned throughout this edition of Pavement Progress was created in anticipation of the $2B grant funding for Low Carbon Transportation Materials (LCTM) grants. RC3 is administered by ACPA and a group of qualified engineering professionals who can assist state highway and other local agencies with grant applications. More information is provided in this magazine and can be found at https://rc3.acpa.org/. • Tech Tuesdays are lunchtime webinars hosted by ACPA and the Concrete Pavement Technology Center. Designed for agency engineers, recent topics have covered jointing of intersections and roundabouts, best practices for dowel bars and utilizing maturity to evaluate strength gain and more efficiently open pavements to traffic. Recordings of past webinars can be found here (https:// cptechcenter.org/webinars-and-videos/), and you can sign up for future webinars here (https://www.acpa.org/webinars/). You can also email Vickie Spielman at [email protected] to be added to the webinar distribution list. Laura O’Neill Kaumo President & CEO American Concrete Pavement Association
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