Registration, Exhibit Viewing & Continental Breakfast
7:00 – 8:00 am
Ventana Ballroom & Arizona Ballroom
General Session – Modified Asphalt Binders
Ventana Ballroom 241
Moderator: Pat Weaver, Roadworthy Plastic Materials, LLC
8:00 – 8:25 am
Construction and Performance Impacts of Asphalt Mix Additives at the NCAT Pavement Test Track
Buzz Powell
NCAT
8:30 – 8:55 am
Polymer Modified Asphalt: A Supplier’s Perspective
Robert McGennis
HF Sinclair
9:00 – 9:25 am
The Use of Highly Modified Asphalt in Wearing Courses and Interlayers
Gary Fitts, Kraton Polymers U.S. LLC
9:30 – 9:55 am
Aerogel Modified Bituminous Materials – aMBx
Kamil Kaloush
ASU
10:00 – 10:25 am
Break – Arizona Ballroom 221
Day 2 Morning Sessions
10:30 – 10:55 am
11:00 – 11:25 am
11:30 am – 11:55 am
Track 1
SESSION 3: Concrete Pavements Performance
Ventana Ballroom 241
Moderator: Larry Scofield, IGGA
Performance Engineered Mixes – Durability and Sustainability Intertwined
Peter Taylor, Iowa State University
Joint Activation – Minnesota’s Efforts
Matthew Zeller, Concrete Pavement Association
Design Showdown – Pavement ME v. AASHTO 93
Eric Ferrebee – ACPA
Track 2
SESSION 4: Plastics and Rubber in Asphalt Pavements
Turquoise Ballroom 220
Moderator: Robert McGennis, HF Sinclair
National Update
Richard Willis, NAPA
Enabling more sustainable pavements using recycled plastic and Reactive Elastomeric Terpolymers (RET)
CJ DuBois, Dow Inc.
Innovations in Rubberized Asphalt Technology
Douglas Carlson, Liberty Tire Recycling
Awards Luncheon
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Arizona Ballroom 221
(Sponsors/Exhibitors Awards Luncheon | Student Poster Competition Presentation)
Moderator: Ruben Guerrero, Jr., Director of Corporate Affairs, Salt River Materials Group
Day 2 Afternoon Sessions
1:05 – 1:30 pm
1:35 – 2:00 pm
Track 1
SESSION 5: Targeting Net Zero Emissions
Ventana Ballroom 241
Moderator: Hasan Ozer, ASU
Non-Fossil Carbon Asphalt
Ellie Fini, ASU
Leveraging the FHWA LCA Framework and Federal LCA Commons Data for developing LCA decision-support tools
Amlan Mukherjee, Michigan Tech
Track 2
SESSION 6: Geotech
Turquoise Ballroom 220
Moderator: Armando de la Rocha, Western Technologies, Inc.
GeoTechTools – The First Place to Look
Vernon R. Schaefer, Iowa State University
Mitigating Expansive Soil Swelling using Geocells: A Case Study
Bhaskar Chittoori, Boise State University
General Session
Ventana Ballroom 241
Moderators: Ellie Fini, ASU and Mo Rahman, Ergon Asphalt
2:05 – 2:45 pm
Center for Bio-mediated & Bio-inspired Geotechnics
Ed Kavazanjian, ASU
2:45 – 3:30 pm
The History of Arizona’s Pavements
Rob Duvall, City of Phoenix