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A NEWSLETTER FOR OUR PARTNERS

December 2021

New Quality Control for Concrete Paving Guide

The CP Tech Center has just released a new guide, Quality Control for Concrete Paving: A Tool for Agency and Industry, authored by Tara Cavalline (UNC Charlotte), Gary Fick (Transtec), and Al Innis (Holcim). The guide is intended as a quality control (QC) tool that both contractor and agency personnel can use at the batch plant, behind the paver, and at other locations on the job.
For contractors, the goal of the guide is to improve or enhance their existing QC programs and plans by incorporating into their current operations appropriate tools, processes, and procedures likely to meet agency requirements.

For agencies, the goal of the guide is to familiarize staff with the components of a comprehensive QC plan for concrete paving projects, with the ways such QC plans benefit agencies, and with recommendations for incorporating QC requirements into specifications.
Good quality control is a strategic investment. It enables increased efficiency and productivity—i.e., profit—for contractors as well as durable infrastructure for agencies. Ultimately, good QC leads to safe and long-lasting roads for the traveling public.

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January 2022: 
No CP Tech Center webinar—
See you at the 2022 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting!

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(Previous webinar recordings, slide handouts, and speakers' Q&A responses are available here.)

Talking Concrete Pavements around the Country

As the 2021 road construction season has drawn to a close, the onset of winter has brought a flurry of webinars, seminars, conferences, and meetings for CP Tech Center staff.

For example, every year the CP Tech Center and Iowa Concrete Paving Association organize the Municipal Streets Seminar for Iowa's public works personnel. This year 208 unique attendees joined three Municipal Streets sessions held via webinar on November 2nd, 16th, and 30th.
The first showcased the Iowa Public Works Service Bureau established to help Iowa's municipal employees "communicate to innovate" as well as the Iowa DOT's Local Systems Bureau that assists in local compliance with state and federal requirements.

The second featured an update from the fly ash industry on the fly ash supply today and its future outlook.

The third highlighted the city of Cedar Rapids' "Paving for Progress" program that in 2013 won voter support for a 10-year 1% local option sales tax to maintain, repair, construct, and reconstruct the city's public streets. Recently, the city's citizens voted to renew the 1% local option sales tax for another 10 years of local infrastructure improvements.
In another local event held in Overland Park, Kansas, on November 4th, CP Tech Center Associate Director Steve Tritsch presented at the 24th Annual Concrete Pavement, Parking Lot, and Flatwork Seminar about the “Basics of Current-Day Concrete" to 80 attendees from across the Kansas City metropolitan area.
The transfer of research findings and technological innovation into everyday concrete paving practice is a key focus of the CP Tech Center, but our other major focus is concrete paving research. Toward this end, CP Tech Center Research Engineer Dan King along with Iowa DOT staff recently performed falling weight deflectometer testing on a fiber-reinforced concrete overlay in Worth County, Iowa.
King also joined municipal staff from Ankeny, Iowa, in applying penetrating surface sealer technology to the saw cut joints of a new concrete pavement.

In the CP Tech Center's Concrete Pavement Technology Tuesday webinar held November 9th, Dr. John Kevern (University of Missouri-Kansas City) and Kevin Fouch (Casey's) shared with 184 participants how penetrating sealers can help protect concrete pavement investments.
Each year the CP Tech Center invests in the next generation of concrete researchers by sponsoring a student poster competition at the annual meeting of the Iowa chapter of the American Concrete Institute, held this year in Ames, Iowa, on November 9th.
The next day featured the Iowa Better Concrete Conference, also organized by the CP Tech Center, with a 2021 offering of more than a dozen presentations on a wide range of concrete-related topics that attracted 173 attendees.
On November 12th, a series of four webinars addressing local concrete pavement design strategies that the CP Tech Center organized via sponsorship from the Aggregate & Ready Mix Association of Minnesota and Concrete Paving Association of Minnesota came to a close. In the series' final webinar, Steve Waalkes (Michigan Concrete Association) and Michael Hoeft (K&M Concrete Construction) presented to 53 participants on parking lot design.
While the early part of November kept CP Tech Center staff busy in the Midwest, the latter part of the month took them from coast to coast. On November 15th, CP Tech Center Director Peter Taylor and Associate Director Gordon Smith joined discussions among Massachusetts DOT representatives and the concrete pavement industry on the potential for future project plans to consider concrete pavement alternatives.
The week after Thanksgiving all CP Tech Center technical staff attended the annual meeting of the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) in Huntington Beach, California. During the plenary session, Taylor presented on future plans related to performance-engineered mixtures (PEM).
Smith provided the ACPA Chapter/State Committee with an update on November 30th regarding CP Tech Center efforts as well as presented a talk entitled "PEM: The Tech That Makes It Happen" during a "Concrete Pavement University" session on December 2nd.
Smith joined another local event held at the Lake of the Ozarks on December 9th—a cooperative meeting of the Associated General Contractors of Missouri and the Missouri Department of Transportation. Here he also spoke about delivering better concrete pavements via PEM.
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Meet the Board Members

For more than 25 years, Steve Prosek has worked for Kokosing Construction Company, Inc. As Kokosing’s Concrete Paving Area Manager, Prosek has led the company’s construction of over $200 million in freeway projects throughout Ohio and mountainous West Virginia. He has also led multiple Kokosing airport paving projects.
Prosek oversees all aspects of Kokosing’s concrete division, including project selection, bidding, procurement, staffing, scheduling, safety, field work, and quality control. Prosek also plays a key role in Kokosing’s concrete equipment purchasing, operations, and maintenance (including managing their two portable central mix batch plants).

Prosek promotes moving concrete paving innovation and research into construction practice—for example, he presented through Ohio’s Local Technical Assistance Program Kokosing’s Cleveland I-271 experience with stringless paving to address constructability issues such as space limitations and phasing. Prosek serves on the CP Tech Center’s Executive Board of Directors as one of its at-large contractors.

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