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President’s Message While January and February are often slow months for many businesses, it has been a busy time for ISCP! In addition to the recent annual membership meeting (described in another portion of the newsletter), the development of the 9th International Conference has been proceeding rapidly with the development of workshop activities and the submittal and review of papers and presentations. The workshop topics are listed in the registration brochure; anyone who would like to make a contribution to a particular workshop should contact Dr. Jamshid Armaghani (Workshop Chair) at jamshid@bellsouth.net. Over the past few weeks we have also been working on filling the new committees that have been added to the Society organization. We haven’t had many volunteers for the new positions so we plan to start recruiting members for these positions -- first via email and then following up with a formal letter. Each ISCP Board member is expected to either chair or be an active participant on at least one committee, and regular members are needed for these committees as well! The executive committee is also seeking a number of local/regional coordinators to promote ISCP activities in various regions around the world. The successes of the recently completed international workshops in China, Brazil and South Africa proved that there is a high level of interest in the Society and a desire within the concrete pavement community worldwide to interact with and assist ISCP in transferring concrete pavement technology. Anyone interested in serving ISCP as a local/regional coordinator should contact me directly. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the 9th Conference in San Francisco in August. Don’t forget to register early for the lowest rates! Dan Zollinger EUPAVE Collaborates with ISCP Mr. Carlos Jofré (IECA, SPAIN) attended the January Membership and Board meeting on behalf of the recently formed EUPAVE organization. He made a presentation to the membership describing EUPAVE and the possibility of future collaborations between ISCP and EUPAVE. EUPAVE is a nonprofit association based in Brussels, BELGIUM and comprising companies and corporations representing cement producers, concrete paving associations, ready-mix producers, equipment and machinery producers and others. Most (but not all) EUPAVE members are based in Europe. The objective of EUPAVE is to study and promote all aspects of cement and concrete contributions to the transport infrastructure, including (but not limited to): • concrete pavements for roads, airports, ports and railways • soil stabilization • cement-treated bases and subbases • concrete barriers EUPAVE will also be organizing the International Symposium on Concrete Roads that has previously been organized by Cembureau every four years. The 11th International Symposium will be held in Seville, SPAIN in 2010. These symposia complement ISCP’s own International Conferences on Concrete Pavements (also held every four years between the symposia). There appear to be many opportunities for collaborations between EUPAVE and ISCP, with possible common activities including the production of state-of-the-art documents collecting information from around the world, and the organization and hosting of technical events. For more information on EUPAVE, please visit their website at www.eupave.eu (under construction).  ISCP Annual Meeting Highlights The Society held its annual membership and Board meeting on January 12, 2008 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. Highlights of the meeting included: ISCP President Dan Zollinger (USA), new Honorary Member Professor Willy Wilk (SWITZERLAND), and ISCP Board Member José Balbo (BRAZIL) · A report on the results of the August 2007 Strategic Planning Meeting held in South Africa. · Recognition of new organizational members Fugro Consultants, Inc. and SaLUT, Inc. · Solicitation of volunteers for various committees (particularly the Activities Committee and Technology Transfer Committee) and liaisons with external organizations. · The induction of new honorary members Professor Willy Wilk (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, SWITZERLAND) and Dr. L.R. Kadiyali (L.R. Kadiyali and Associates, Inc., INDIA). · Presentation and approval of the 2008 Operating Budget. · A presentation by Mr. Carlos Jofré (IECA, SPAIN) on the recently formed EUPAVE and their activities and goals, as well as their intent for cooperative interaction with ISCP. · A technical presentation on “Mechanistic Modeling and Full-Scale Tests” by Edward Guo (SRA International, Inc., USA). This presentation was made to document the need for using both mechanistic and full-scale test data in analyses and was also used to announce/promote a new student paper competition (with significant prize money from a cooperating donor foundation). Details concerning the competition will be announced soon and will be described in the next ISCP newsletter. An informal group dinner was attended by more than 30 ISCP members and guests after the meeting. The minutes of the January meeting are available (along with minutes of all other ISCP meetings) on the ISCP website at www.concretepavements.org. 9^th Conference Paper Deadline Extended The deadline for paper submissions for the 9^th International Conference on Concrete Pavements is extended to 5pm Eastern Standard Time on February 29^th, 2008. The extension was necessary to accommodate difficulties with respect to academic and research cycles in some countries for posting by the February 1^st deadline. If you plan to submit a paper by the new deadline, please email Nona Schaler and send the paper to iscp9th@verizon.net. Call for Abstracts for 2^nd Advanced Workshop The International Society for Concrete Pavements is sponsoring a workshop on “Advanced Characterization, Modeling, and Design of Concrete Pavements” to be held on August 13-15, 2008, in Richmond, California, USA. This workshop will be the second in a series of fundamental workshops sponsored by ISCP. The first in this series of workshops was held at Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA in August 2005. In addition to ISCP, this workshop is being co-sponsored by the following organizations: · Federal Aviation Administration · FAA Center for Excellence for Airport Technology at the University of Illinois · Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois · Michigan Tech Transportation Institute at Michigan Technological University · Pavement Research Institute at the University of Minnesota · University of California Pavement Research Center