DAY 1 – Tuesday, November 19, 2024
| 8:00-9:00am | Registration Memorial Union, Outside Pima Room | |||
| 9:00am-12:00pm | Pavement Preservation Sessions Pima Room Moderators: Jeff Smith The Arizona Chapter of the Associated General Contractors – Pavement Preservation Committee is presenting on Best Practices for Pavement Preservation Treatments by various industry professionals. The presentations are going to include best practices on preparation, application, and material testing of all preservation treatments Click here to view the presenters | |||
| 12:00-2:00pm | Lunch at Engrained | |||
| 2:00-5:00pm | Workshop: What does it take to build long time pavement: durability, efficiency and sustainability concepts? Pima Room 2:00-2:05 Moderator: Tim Murphy | Introduction to the Session and Speakers 2:05-2:30 Tim Aschenbrener, Senior Asphalt Engineer, FHWA | Improving Density: Demonstration Projects and Related Specifications 2:30-3:00 Jhony Habbouche, Regional Engineer, Asphalt Institute | Balanced Mix Design (BMD) Applications in Virginia: From Development to Implementation 3:00-3:30 Nye McCarty, Flagstaff Regional Materials Engineer, ADOT | Transforming Existing Pavements into Perpetual Pavements: An Incremental Approach 3:30-4:00 Tim Murphy, President, Murphy Pavement Technologies | Building strong and long-lasting Stone Matrix Asphalt (SMA) Pavements 4:00-5:00 Panel Discussion: Moderator: Tim Murphy Nye McCarty (ADOT) | Greg Groneberg (Southwest Asphalt) | Immanuel Martinez (Sunland) | Alex Carter (Vulcan Materials) | Matt Manthey (City of Mesa) | Rob Duvall (City of Phoenix) | |||
| 5:00-5:15pm | Walk to the Pavement Lab at ISTB2 Room 185 | |||
| 5:30-8:00pm | Consortium Open House with Students’ Posters, Research Updates, and Field Equipment Demos Refreshments available 850 S. McAllister Ave. ISTB2 Room 185 Pavement Laboratory |
DAY 2 – Wednesday, November 20, 2024
| 8:00-9:00am | Registration | Exhibits Open – Continental Breakfast Arizona Ballroom 221 | |
| OPENING SESSION: Ventana Ballroom 241 | ||
| 9:00-9:20am | ASU Welcome Address Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University | |
| 9:30-10:00am | Federal Highway Administration Hari Kalla (Associate Administrator for Infrastructure) | |
| 10:00-10:30am | ADOT Overview Steve Boschen, Infrastructure Delivery and Operations, Division Director, ADOT | |
| 10:30-11:00am | McDOT Overview Jesse Gutierrez, Director | |
| 11:00-11:30am | Arizona Transportation Institute (AzTI) Update Yao-Jan Wu, University of Arizona | |
| 11:30-12:00pm | Lunch Preparation Arizona Ballroom 221 | ◆ STUDENT POSTER SESSION ASSEMBLY – Group 1 Turquoise Ballroom |
| 12:00-1:30pm | LUNCHEON: Arizona Ballroom 221 Moderator: Sean Duffy, ARPA Lunch speaker: Corey J. Zollinger, Director of Sustainable Infrastructure, Cemex. ◆ Recognition of Sponsors and Exhibitors ◆ Industry Students Awards: FORTA and Terracon | |
| TRACK 1 | TRACK 2 | |
| SESSION 1: Carbon-Friendly Technologies Ventana Ballroom 241 Moderator: Todd Gonser | SESSION 2: Considering Resiliency in Pavement Systems Turquoise 220 Moderator: Angeli Jayme, ASU, Assistant Professor | |
| 1:30-1:55pm | Lower GHG and EPD Effective Pavement Treatments, Arizona Applications Chris Evers, Pavement Technology Inc. | Impact of Climate Change on Pavement Structural Performance Shane Underwood, North Carolina State University |
| 2:00-2:25pm | Portland-Limestone Cement (PLC) Greg Halsted, National Ready-Mixed Concrete Association | Impacts of Wildfires on Pavement Systems Jeff Stempihar, NCE |
| 2:30-2:55pm | Carbon Reduction in Cement and Concrete Narayanan Neithalath, ASU | Assessing Vulnerability of Arizona Roadways to Wildfire and Post-Fire Debris Flow Nora Hennessy, ASU |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Networking Break Arizona Ballroom 221 | ◆ STUDENT POSTER SESSION ASSEMBLY – Group 2 Turquoise Ballroom |
| GENERAL SESSION: Panel Discussion Ventana Ballroom 241 Moderator: Bob McGennis | ||
| 3:30-5:00pm | Balanced Mixture Design Speakers: Jhony Habbouche, Asphalt Institute Derek Nener-Plante (FHWA) Amy Epps (Texas A&M) | |
| 5:00-7:00pm | ◆ RECEPTION ◆ BEST IN ARIZONA PAVEMENT AWARDS Arizona Ballroom 5:15-5:45 Presenter and Moderator: Tim Murphy, Murphy Pavement Technology, Inc. Please join us in celebrating Best in Arizona pavement project winners. Student Posters, Door Prizes, Refreshments, All conference attendees are invited to attend. |
DAY 3 – Thursday, November 21, 2024
| 7:00-8:00am | Registration – Exhibits Open – Continental Breakfast Arizona Ballroom 221 | |
| GENERAL SESSION: Update on Pavement Innovations in Arizona Ventana Ballroom 241 Moderator: Nye McCarty | ||
| 8:00-8:25am | Impacts of a FHWA Mobile Asphalt Technology Center Visit: Spotlight on Arizona DOT Derek Nener-Plante, FHWA | |
| 8:30-8:55am | Arizona’s Stone Matrix Asphalt (SMA) Paul Sharma, ADOT | |
| 9:00-9:25am | Friction Performance of ADOT Surface Mixtures Kevin Robertson, ADOT | |
| 9:30-9:55am | Highly Modified Asphalts / Emulsions Mo Rahman, Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. | |
| 10:00-10:30am | Networking Break Arizona Ballroom 221 | |
| TRACK 1 | TRACK 2 | |
| SESSION 3: Every Day Counts (EDC) 7 Ventana Ballroom 241 Moderator: Tom Deitering | SESSION 4: Geotechnical Matters Turquoise 220 Moderator: Claudia Zapata | |
| 10:30-10:50am | Arizona Council for Transportation Innovation Update Karla Petty, FHWA | Jennifer Toth, ADOT | Performance Evaluation of Highway Embankment and Slopes using Geophysical Testing and Field Instrumentation Sadik Khan, Jackson State University |
| 10:50-11:25am | Enhancing Performance with Internally Cured Concrete Tim Barrett, FHWA | Micro-Trenching Matt Manthey, City of Mesa |
| 11:25 – 12:00pm | Green Public Procurement, Environment and product quality perspectives LaToya Johnson, FHWA | Flooded Roads: Pavement Response and Load Restriction Majid Ghayoomi, University of New Hampshire |
| 12:00-1:30pm | LUNCHEON: Arizona Ballroom 221 Moderator: Amanda McGennis Lunch Speaker: Reed Ryan, APA ◆ Community Service Awards ◆ Witczak Endowment Students Awards ◆ Student Poster Awards | |
| SESSION 5: Digital Data and Infrastructure Ventana Ballroom 241 Moderator: Parnian Ghasemi | ||
| 1:30-2:00pm | Digital Project Delivery: Re-Imagining the Way We Do Business in a Digital World Alexa Mitchell, HDR | |
| 2:00-2:30pm | Data Science for Pavements Eshan Dave, University of New Hampshire | |
| GENERAL SESSION Ventana Ballroom 241 Moderator: Larry Scofield | ||
| 2:35-3:35pm | The History and Evolution of ADOT’s Pavement Performance Test Equipment George Way, Jim Delton, Larry Scofield. | |
| 3:40pm | END OF CONFERENCE – Grand Prize Drawing |
Questions about the event?
Contact Dr. Ramadan Salim at [email protected]
Contact Zeynep Elabiad at [email protected]