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What’s
New at ISCP? President’s Message First
of all, I would like to thank the ISCP membership for its strong support in
the December elections. I will do my
best to live up to your expectations as ISCP’s President!
The
scope of the vision of ISCP’s potential has also grown along with the number
of members and activities, resulting
in discussions of developing comprehensive online resources for pavement
engineers and researchers, regional chapters of the Society, and other
activities. It
has become increasingly clear that at least three things are necessary to
sustain the Society’s growth: 1) increased income (primarily through
increased individual and organizational membership); 2) increased involvement
of individual members; and 3) contracting out certain administrative
activities related to membership processing, newsletter production and
distribution, and website maintenance.
The
third item is almost in place, as the Society is currently negotiating
part-time (hourly) service contracts with two individuals who will assume
duties that will free the Secretary-Treasurer, Newsletter Editor and
Webmaster from performing some of the mundane tasks associated with their
positions and will allow them to focus on developing strategies to improve
the quality of services provided to ISCP members. It is likely that, as a result of this
change, the newsletter will soon become a monthly (rather than bi-monthly)
publication. The
first two items (membership growth and involvement) require your help. In order to grow ISCP’s active membership,
we all need to become active promoters of the Society. I ask that each of you consider encouraging
your colleagues to join ISCP during 2010.
The Membership Committee will be producing materials that summarize
the benefits of ISCP membership, and prospective members need only visit the
ISCP website at www.concretepavements.org to view the calendar of events and
newsletters or to download a free copy of previous ISCP workshop proceedings
to see the value of the Society.
University faculty should strongly encourage all of their graduate
students to join (membership is free for full-time students) because they
represent the future of the Society. And,
finally, I ask that you consider becoming more actively involved in the
Society. There are openings for
motivated individuals to serve on all of ISCP’s standing committees, which
include: Membership, Activities, International Conference, Editorial,
Technology Transfer and Communication.
All of these committees are being “re-booted” and will soon have their
own web pages describing their missions and listing their members. In addition, there is a big need for
newsletter correspondents to relay information on interesting design or
construction projects, products and technologies, and graduate student theses
related to concrete pavements (especially from outside of North America) for
inclusion in the newsletter. Please
contact me at president@concretepavements.org if
you would like to become an active member of any of these committees, and
contact Amanda Bordelon at newsletter@concretepavements.org if
you can serve as a newsletter correspondent. I
look forward to serving and working with all of the ISCP membership over the
next four years. Let’s see how far
forward we can take this thing! Respectfully, Mark B. Snyder, ISCP
President Board Appoints Director Replacements The
ISCP Board acted to fill the two Director positions which became vacant when
Johan Silfwerbrand stepped down and Neeraj Buch was elected to the
Secretary-Treasurer position. Leif
Wathne (American Concrete Pavement Association – USA) and Stephan Villaret
(VILLARET Ingenieurgesellschaft GmbH – GERMANY) were appointed to complete
the remaining two-year terms, in accordance with the ISCP By-Laws. ISCP Officer and Staff Email Addresses Standardized Members
can now direct email to specific ISCP officers, committee chairs and other
Society positions through standardized email addresses of the form [position]@concretepavements.org. Email addresses of this form are currently
active for the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Newsletter,
and Webmaster. Additional
standardized addresses will be set up for the Society Administrator, all
committee chairs and other positions, as needed. All old email addresses that included
actual officer names have been (or will soon be) deactivated. The new system is more intuitive and will
allow more seamless transitions of correspondence when officer and positional
changes take place. A list of available
e-mail contacts is provided on the ISCP website at the following: http://www.concretepavements.org/contact.htm Free Online Access to IJPE for ISCP
Members The
International Journal of Pavement Engineering (IJPE), which is endorsed by
ISCP, is available online for a free 30 day trial access through Taylor &
Francis Group. The IJPE is dedicated
to the publication of cutting edge research and development in such important
types of structures and facilities, including advanced analytical and
computational techniques, pavement mechanics, laboratory techniques,
non-destructive testing, innovative design approaches and their
implementation, construction, performance, maintenance and rehabilitation
techniques.
To
obtain the free access, please fill out the following: 1.
Go to www.informaworld.com/vouchers 2.
Enter this unique code: VGPAVCS000110E1 3.
Login or Register The
30 day free access will begin once you have entered the code. A discounted
subscription rate is available for personal users. To receive regular updates about the
journals contents, register at: http://www.informaworld.com/alerting.
For details about IJPE, please visit the following address: Conference
News Sign up for ISCP 10th Conference
Hotel ISCP's
10th Conference on Concrete Pavements will be held in ·
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Government rate:
$159.00 plus taxes (A limit of 50 rooms are available at this
rate. This rate is for all government
personnel in any country. Only government personnel can get this rate. Working on government projects does not
qualify. )
An
online group reservation system, Passkey,
has been created and is now available for the ISCP Conference at the Fairmont
Le Château Frontenac. Please visit the link below to view the Passkey: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/cac2012 Alternatively,
the Global Reservations Centre number is 1-800-441-1414 and the callers
should identify themselves as being with the ISCP conference group for ease
of booking by using the following block code: CACA09. Note:
A separate online system is being setup for the special government rate and
should be up and running in the next few weeks. International Seminar for
Innovation and Technology Transfer for Concrete Pavements ISCP is collaborating
with the Peruvian chapter of the American Concrete Institute on an
international seminar to be held at the Hotel Country Club San Isidro in The objectives of
this seminar are to present new concrete pavement design and construction
technologies for the rapidly developing Peruvian road network. Three ISCP Directors (Erwin Kohler, Juan
Pablo Covarrubias and Jeffery Roesler), two ISCP members (Lev Khazanovich and
Juan Pablo Covarrubias, Jr), and Enrique Pasquel, an For more
information regarding the seminar, contact Juan Pablo Covarrubias at juanpablo.covarrubias@tcpavements.com or see the posted
document (in Spanish) at: http://www.concretepavements.org/Seminario_Peru.pdf Call for Papers The Kuwait Cement
and Concrete Conference and Exhibition will be held on June 8 & 9, 2010 at
the Radisson Blu (formerly SAS) Hotel in The theme of the
conference is “Towards Sustainable Cement and Concrete Industry”. The
scientific committee invites authors to submit papers related to the theme of
particular interest in the following areas: ·
Sustainable
low carbon concrete ·
Sustainable
building materials ·
Supplementary
cementitious materials ·
Sustainable
concrete design and practices ·
Recycling
of building materials ·
Repair
and rehabilitation of structures ·
Provision
for flyer distribution at Exhibition Entrance. ·
Sustainability
codes and specifications ·
Durability
and life cycle design ·
Sustainability
in hot weather The deadline for submission
of abstracts is For more
information about the Kuwait Cement and Concrete Conference, please visit the
conference website at: Industry
News New Coefficient of Thermal Expansion Test Method –
Will it impact you? In 2009, AASHTO
approved a new test method, T 336, for measuring the coefficient of thermal
expansion ( Although this is a
minor change in the test method, it has large implications if the For further
information contact Jussara Tanesi (Jussara.Ramadan.CTR@dot.gov) FHWA
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center or Gary Crawford (gary.crawford@dot.gov) FHWA Office of
Pavement Technology. Free Technical Sheets and other Updates from the ACPA The American
Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) thanks all those who attended and
sponsored their 14th Annual ·
Webinars: ACPA's popular
webinar series returns again with 18 online sessions featuring thorough
discussions about the latest developments in concrete pavement technology, as
well as other important technical topics. Visit ACPA’s online bookstore or their webinar program flyer for
exact dates, times, and topics of the webinars. ·
Online Seminars: ACPA's updated
Concrete Pavement Seminar Series returns again this spring. Formerly known as
Concrete Pavement 101, this classroom-style training offers participants the
opportunity to take one, two, or all three days of training. More details on
this seminar are available in
the ACPA bookstore. ·
Utility Cuts
Publication: ACPA
recently published an update to their existing publication IS235P, “Utility Cuts in
Concrete Pavements.” PDF and
hardcopies of the publication are available online. ·
Free Technical
Sheets (TS’s):
ACPA recently released six new TS’s to accompany EB043P, “Recycling Concrete
Pavements,” which was published in 2009.
They can be downloaded in the free downloads section of the
ACPA website. ·
ACPA Mid-Year
Meeting:
ACPA announced that its Mid-Year Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday through
Friday, June 16 through 18, 2010. The event includes governance meetings and
working group sessions for people who are both passionate about the industry
and working to bring positive changes in specs, standards, and best
practices. More details will be announced
as they become available. For more
information on ACPA publications, please check the ACPA bookstore at: http://www.pavement.com/bookstore South Carolina
DOT uses RCC to Reconstruct a Failed Asphalt Pavement
For a detailed
description of this project, please visit: www.cement.org/pavements/pv_rcc_aiken.asp Upcoming
Events
If you wish to
submit an announcement and/or link for an upcoming conference, meeting, or
call for papers for the next ISCP e-newsletter, please contact us at newsletter@concretepavements.org. The ISCP
E-Newsletter is produced by Editor-in-Chief, Amanda Bordelon, Associate
Editor, Dr. Jake Hiller, and Assistant Editors: Dr. Cristian Gaedicke, Nancy
Whiting, Robert Rodden, and Corey Zollinger.
Suggestions for future newsletters are welcomed at newsletter@concretepavements.org
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