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NRRA Pavement Workshop 2018

2018 NRRA Pavement Workshop

2018 Program Cover
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The dates for next year's workshop will be May 22-23, 2019, so save the date.

In the agenda below, there are links to all of the powerpoint decks used by our speakers.

There are also Skype recordings (audio and slides synced) of the presentations embedded into the agenda.

Agenda

May 23

9 a.m. | General State of the Alliance (PPT), Glenn Engstrom (MnDOT)
State of Alliance recording

9:30 a.m. | Team Overviews

Flex & Rigid Team Overviews recording

10:30 a.m. | Break

11:00 | Team Overviews

Geotch & PM Team Overviews recording

12:00 p.m. | Lunch

1:00 p.m. | Team Workshops

Preventive Maintenance Workshop

Preventive Maintenance Workshop recording

Geotechnical Workshop (Room #2)

Geotechnical Workshop recording

2 p.m. | Break

2:15 p.m. | Team Workshops

Flexible Workshop (Room #1)

  • Asphalt Pavement Performance Testing, Barry Paye, moderator (WisDOT)
  • Hamburg Wheel (PPT), Barry Paye (WisDOT)
  • IFIT (PPT), Brian Pfeifer (IDOT)
  • MIST (PPT), Dr. Z. You (Michigan Tech)
  • TSR (PPT), John Donahue or Brett Trautman (MoDOT)
  • DCT (PPT), Dave Van Deusen and Debaroti Ghosh (MnDOT)

Flexible Workshop recording

Rigid Workshop (Room #2)

Rigid Workshop recording

3:15 p.m. | Workshop End

3:30 p.m. | NRRA MnROAD Tour/Dinner
Location: MnROAD Test Facility

Tours/Demos

5:00p.m. | Dinner

6:30 p.m. | Executive Committee Meeting
MnROAD conference room [states only]

May 24, St. Paul, MN

7:30 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m. | Welcome, Glenn Engstrom (moderator)

8:10 a.m. | Gene Skok Scholarship Awards, Joe Labuz (University of Minnesota)

8:15 a.m. | National Perspective of Mike Anderson (PPT), Skok Distinguished Speaker, R. Michael Anderson (Asphalt Institute)

9 a.m. | Reflections on 34 years of Pavement Engineering (PPT), Rohrbach Distinguished Speaker, Dave Rettner (American Engineering Testing)

Dave Rettner recording

9:30 a.m. | Break / Exhibits
(visit the NRRA members during the break)

10:15 a.m. | NRRA Workshop Summary (PPT), Benefits of the NCAT / MnROAD Partnership, Ben Worel (MnDOT) and Buzz Powell (NCAT)

Workshop Summary recording

10:45 a.m. | MnROAD Construction Associate Member Testimonials

MnROAD Construction Testimonials recording

11:30 a.m. | Lunch

12:30 p.m. | Technical Talk – Future Technologies (PDF), Bryan Downing (CAT Paving Products)

1:00 p.m. | State Member Testimonial

State Members Testimonials recording

1:30 p.m. | NRRA Future Goals and Direction (PPT), Glenn Engstrom

1:45 p.m. | Break / Exhibits

2:15 p.m. | Concurrent Research Tracks

2:15 p.m. | Geotechnical Team (Room 1), John Siekmeier, moderator

Bora Cetin recording

Steve Henrichs recording

Dave White recording

Soheil Nazarian recording

Flexible Team (Room 2), Brandon Brever (MAPA), moderator

Rigid Team (Room 3), Charles Wienrank (IDOT), moderator

Manik Barman recording

Gordon Smith recording

John Donahue recording

Bernard Izevbekhai recording

Preventive Maintenance Team (Room 4), Jerry Geib (MnDOT), moderator

Joe Korzillius (Poor Pavements) recording

Justin Lashley recording

Joe Korziliius (Diamond Grinding) recording

Phil Ruffus recording

4:15 p.m. | Adjourn

4:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Closing Reception: Refreshments and appetizers