Rob Kish Joins CP Tech Center Board
For the CP Tech Center to succeed in advancing strategic improvements in how concrete pavements are specified, built, and maintained, our executive board must excel not only in visionary thinking outside the box but also in strategic problem-solving on the ground. The CP Tech Center board has recently added an at-large contractor representative who matches this description well—Rob Kish.
Kish, General Superintendent, Concrete Division-Milestone Contractors is a graduate of Ohio University in civil engineering. In 2018, he participated in INDOT‘s successful test of thin structural-fiber-reinforced concrete overlays and co-presented to the Indiana chapter of the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) on patching operation optimization and best practices to achieve smoothness. At ACPA‘s mid-year meeting, Kish additionally presented research by ACPA‘s “Emerging Leaders’ Group” on concrete paving employee recruitment and development. In 2019, Kish chaired the “Emerging Leaders’ Group”. In 2020, Milestone’s culture that Kish—among many others—has fostered to ensure that every worker comes home safely won Milestone‘s Indiana Constructors’ Gold Safety Award. CP Tech is excited that Kish has joined the CP Tech Center executive board!
New RESEARCH ENGINEER Dan King Joins CP Tech Center Staff
Click to go to Dan’s bio
The CP Tech Center recently hired Dan King, PE (Iowa), as Research Engineer. King earned a BS and an MS graduate degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is now working on his PhD in civil engineering at Iowa State University.
Previously, King served as Concrete Research and Design Director for the Iowa Concrete Paving Association (ICPA)/Iowa Ready Mixed Concrete Association (IRMCA). His ICPA/IRMCA responsibilities of providing expertise in concrete pavements and materials to Iowa’s construction and engineering communities have prepared him well for his new role: Assisting in the CP Tech Center mission of research and technology transfer toward the goal of moving leading edge concrete pavement science into practice on a national scale.
Since joining the CP Tech Center, King has already visited multiple states for research and presented various tech transfer WEBINARS (click ‘webinars’ to left to go to CP Tech webpage):
“Introduction to Concrete Overlays” (with Peter Taylor)
“PCC Overlays: Fabric and Fiber” (with Tom Cackler)
“Durable Concrete in a Low-Ash World” (with Jerod Gross)
“PEM and Reduced-Cement Paving Mixes in Iowa” (with Todd Hanson)
For Dan’s bio, please click on his image above or go to: Dan King, Research Engineer-CP Tech Center
Gordon Smith, Director-CP Tech Center
SEPTEMBER 9: Altoona, Iowa
CP Tech is “On the Move”: In-Person & Virtually!
Smith talked concrete mix proportioning in person with about 30 Cement Tech forum attendees. The face-to-face small group fostered a great rapport, good interaction, and a full question and answer session.
SEPTEMBER 28: VIRTUAL
Pavement Design Webinar: Aggregate & Ready Mix of Minnesota (ARM) Association and the Concrete Pavement Association of Minnesota (CPAM)
One of the benefits (and challenges!) of online vs. in-person events is that the online format enables easy movement back and forth between events! Gordon Smith “stepped out” of the 12th ICCP to introduce and facilitate a pavement design webinar cosponsored by the Aggregate & Ready Mix of Minnesota (ARM) Association and the Concrete Pavement Association of Minnesota (CPAM). CP Tech Center travel in person has increased, but we are remaining active online as well.
Gordon Smith, Director-CP Tech Center
Peter Taylor, Director-CP Tech Center
SEPTEMBER 10: VIRTUAL
RT&I Committee Meeting
10 American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) Research, Technology, and Innovation (RT&I) Committee members from around the United States met virtually. The committee brainstormed potential advancements related to a webinar introduced by Gordon Smith and presented by Peter Taylor on the “Properties of Concrete Mixtures for Long-Term Performance.
September 23: VIRTUAL
PCA Paving Committee Meeting
Both Taylor and Smith participated in a Portland Cement Association (PCA) paving committee meeting.
Peter Taylor, Director-CP Tech Center
Mike Praul, FHWA
SEPTEMBER 14: VIRTUAL
Concrete Pavement Technology Tuesday WEBINAR
CP Tech Center hallmark monthly Concrete Pavement Technology Tuesday WEBINAR remains online. There were 298 attendees with Peter Taylor and Mike Praul, FHWA moderated and discussed “Advancements in Performance-Engineered Mixtures (PEM)“.
Peter Taylor, Director-CP Tech Center
SEPTEMBER 17: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania DOT and industry representatives Meeting
ConcreteFiX series (Season 2) sponsored by Cement and Concrete South Africa (SA)
SEPTEMBER 21: VIRTUAL
Peter Taylor headlined the online ConcreteFiX series (Season 2) sponsored by Cement and Concrete South Africa (SA), presenting about PEM.
John Adam, Associate Director-CP Tech Center
Gordon Smith, Director-CP Tech Center
SEPTEMBER 19: Chicago, Illinois
ACPA Chapter/State Executives Meeting
John and Gordon Smith joined the face-to-face ACPA Chapter/State Executives Meeting
Peter Taylor, Director-CP Tech Center
Gordon Smith, Director-CP Tech Center
Dan King, Research Engineer–CP Tech Center
SEPTEMBER 27 – OCTOBER 1: 12th ICCP
CP Tech Center Staff
Weeklong 12th International Conference on Concrete Pavements (12thICCP 2021), organized by the International Society for Concrete Pavements (ISCP), was intense for all involved—though its game-like platform including an avatar for each attendee and a virtual campus on which it was possible to get lost (!) added interest to a week largely consisting otherwise of sitting alone in front of one’s computer.
• CP Tech Center staff spoke during ICCP‘s plenary session
• Eleven (11) presentations:
– 7 podium presentations on research projects
– 4 workshops on tech transfer
Click to enlarge
Can you identify in the pic below Peter Taylor, Gordon Smith,
and the CP Tech Center‘s new research engineer, Dan King, leading the ICCP’s PEM workshop?
Dale Harrington, Founding Director-CP Tech Center
OCTOBER 1:
ISCP honored Dale Harrington—CP Tech Center‘s founding Director at the 12th ICCP: VIRTUAL
The CP Tech Center‘s Founding Director, Dale Harrington, was inducted as an Honorary Member of the International Society for Concrete Pavements (ISCP) during the 12th International Conference on Concrete Pavements (ICCP) during the organization’s quadrennial conference (held virtually this year) September 27th – October 1st. Honorary membership is given to “individuals that have provided exemplary service to the Society and/or to the improvement of concrete pavement technology,” per the organization.
The award, presented by Jeff Roesler, Former President-ISCP, and Professor-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recognized Harrington as the founding director of the center was created in 2000 as the Center for Portland Cement Concrete Pavement Technology, and in 2005, became known as the National Concrete Pavement Technology Center (CP Tech Center). Roesler noted Harrington’s more than 50 years in the transportation engineering industry and broad range of experience that allowed him to have a unique impact in the profession. Roesler said that Harrington’s experience combined with an ability to collaborate across the engineering and contracting industries allowed Harrington to be a part of many noted publications and guides that helped practitioners to better understand the state of the art in concrete pavement technology.
Harrington said, “I want to thank you for your award as an Honorary Member
of the International Society for Concrete Pavements. I would also like to thank
all of the people of the international concrete industry for their ongoing efforts
to promote concrete pavements across the world.”
Gordon Smith said, “We’ve had a wonderful, wonderful 40-year career together.”
CLICK TO ENLARGE: Dale Harrington, seated front left; with wife Linda, daughter Krista, and her husband Dave Womble:
Friends and colleagues joined to watch the virtual award and celebrate his accomplishments from:
CP Tech Center; Iowa Statewide Urban Design & Specifications (SUDAS) program;
Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT); Iowa Concrete Paving Association (ICPA); & Institute for Transportation (InTrans!
Please share your appreciation or favorite memory for CP Tech Center to pass on to Dale on the CP Tech Center‘s LinkedIn page! For the entire Dale Harrington article on the CP Tech website, please go to: CP Tech Webpage Article
Dave Sciullo, ACPA/PA Chair and ACPA/National Board Member
John Becker, President-ACPA/PA &
Leif Wathne, Executive Vice President-ACPA
OCTOBER: Week 1
Roundabouts—Pennsylvania House Concrete Pavement Caucus Tour:
Early October, the ACPA-Pennsylvania Chapter conducted a Site visit to 5 of the 7 concrete roundabouts in the Commonwealth for the Pennsylvania House Concrete Pavement Caucus, all located in southwestern PA—joined by several members of the legislature, including House Majority and Minority Transportation Committee Chairs.
The TOUR included:
• Site visit to 5 of the 7 concrete roundabouts in the Commonwealth
• A stop at the portable batch plant where participants saw first-hand how Portland cement is blended with aggregates and admixtures to make concrete
• Median of I-70: Dave Sciullo showed equipment used by Golden Triangle Construction on several reconstruction projects with concrete between New Stanton and Washington, PA.
John Becker said, “This tour provided our legislators in Harrisburg the opportunity to learn a little bit more about the concrete pavement industry. After touring a cement manufacturing plant two years ago, and this showed the caucus first-hand how our contractors put that material to use.”
Finally, the dialogue continued on
• Transportation funding
• The state of the concrete pavement industry in the Commonwealth
• How competition in the paving market can help maximize our limited financial resources
Laura O’Neill Kaumo, President and CEO-ACPA
Jason Reaves, Director-South Dakota Chapter-ACPA
OCTOBER Week 2: Rock Springs & Casper, Wyoming
“On the Grade Visit“: South Dakota:
South Dakota Chapter-ACPA “On the grade” Project Meeting
Laura O’Neill Kaumo visited the South Dakota Chapter and “got on the grade” at a paving project outside of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The eastbound lanes of I-90 between Salem and Humboldt will have a complete reconstruction with the removal of the existing surface (processed into the new subgrade), regrading, several complete bridge reconstructions, and of course, concrete paving. The trip wrapped up with a great dinner with several members of the South Dakota Board of Directors-ACPA. Special thanks to Jason Reaves and the SD ACPA Chapter!
Angela Folkestad, Director, CO/WY Chapter-ACPA
Sarah Sanders, Pavement Engineer-CO/WY Chapter-ACPA
OCTOBER 18: Rock Springs & Casper, Wyoming
2 Full-Day Workshops
CO/WY Chapter-ACPA has supported the Wyoming Technology Transfer Center (WYT2/LTAP) on the theme of constructing and maintaining durable concrete pavement. Sarah Sanders and Angela Folkestad spoke to DOT, local agency, and consultant representatives in Rock Springs and Casper, Wyoming.
Day 1, they discussed:
• Concrete Materials
• Pavement Design
• Specifications
• Good Construction Practices
• Rehabilitation Techniques
• Concrete Sustainability
Day 2, they welcomed guest presenter Whitney Wise, Concrete Engineer-WYDOT and kicked off with a meeting with WYDOT’s materials leadership and staff on the potential for utilizing recycled concrete aggregates on an upcoming I-25 project.
Leif Wathne, P.E., Executive Vice President-ACPA
OCTOBER 20-21: VIRTUAL
2-Day Meeting: The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Concrete Pavement and Materials (CPM) Technical Feedback Group (TFG)—FHWA CPM TFG
The FHWA CPM TFG—held its 4th virtual meeting. FHWA utilizes the feedback from this group of stakeholders to inform their program moving forward. The meeting included robust discussions about:
• Pavement resilience—ways to quantify damage and service life reduction related to inundation and opportunities to stiffen pavements system to make them less vulnerable to the impacts of climate change
• Carbon sequestration
• Low-carbon concrete solutions—including Portland Limestone Cement (PLC). A lot of progress has been made regarding PLC adoption, but continued education was mentioned as a means to accelerate the uptake of this low-carbon cement even further
• Leif Wathne, P.E., Executive Vice President-ACPA represented the ACPA on the FHWA TFG in a SUMMARY of all 18 topics covered since the group convened in 2019—a gamut of hot topics in the concrete pavement and materials field.
– Rapid repair
– Performance engineered mixtures (PEMs)
– Fly-ash
– Early opening to traffic