The British Cementitious Paving Association (Britpave) has published new guidance on using concrete pavements for smart motorway construction. The new guidance, ‘Smart motorway construction with concrete’ examines a full range of […]
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The European Concrete Paving Association (EUPAVE) is convinced that increased competition between pavement industries should be a common thread in processes and policies to procure pavement in Europe. EUPAVE calls on
Healthy Competition Between Pavement Industries Could Save the Public Millions Read More »
ISCP would like to remind members of the “3rd International Conference on Best Practices for Concrete Pavements—Challenges for the future of sustainable construction of concrete pavements“, to be held October 28-30, 2015
Pavement-management systems (PMS) place an emphasis on concrete-pavement preservation (CCP) efforts, aiding governing bodies in staving off the need for extensive—and expensive—reconstruction, while maintaining a high standard of quality within
Kentucky, USA, Prolongs Life of Concrete Pavements & Creates Lowest IRI EVER Read More »
The American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) will hold a 3-day workshop titled Airport Pavement Design & Construction Workshop November 3-5, 2015 at the Hilton Austin Airport Hotel, Austin, Texas, USA. The course
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The 65th Annual Concrete Conference will be held on Thursday, December 3, 2015 at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, USA. The one-day conference is sponsored by the University
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The Cement and Concrete Institute (ICH)—in cooperation with ISCP and the CP Tech Center—has recently published a Spanish version of the center’s popular Guide to Concrete Overlays Sustainable Solutions for
Now Available! Spanish ICH Concrete Overlay Manual Read More »
The American Concrete Institute (ACI) released a publication titled “Guide for Construction of Concrete Pavements”. The primary focus of this 62-page guide is pavement construction. Modern slipform paving techniques and
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The Concrete Pavement Website:“ViasConcretas Pavimentação Sustentabilidade” (Concrete Paving: Sustainable Roads) is a Concrete Routes Portal—a creation of the Brazilian Portland Cement Association (ABCP), through its Infrastructure area. Founded and maintained by the Brazilian cement
The Australian Society for Concrete Pavements will hold a 3-hour Forum titled “Concrete Pavements for Airfields” on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 from 16:00 to 19:00 h (4.00 pm to 7.00 pm), in the
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Minnesota State University, Mankato—Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering, along with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) Research
Elections for ISCP President, Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer will be held in Fall of 2015 and the Nominating Committee Chair is accepting nominations for these positions through September 30, 2015. Officer Candidate
ISCP Accepting Officer Nominations for Fall 2015 Elections Read More »
Moving Advancements into Practice (MAP) Briefs describe promising research and technologies that can be used now to enhance concrete paving practices. The CP Road Map E-News is the newsletter of
The course agenda with links to the presentations and videos is now available from the “Concrete Pavement Innovation & Technology Transfer Workshop” held June 25th at the IDOT District 1 office in
The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has released a Tech Brief titled “Materials-Related Distress: Hardened Cement Paste – Best Practices for Concrete Pavements”. Concrete is a cemented-aggregate mixture where aggregates
The Innovative Pavement Research Foundation (IPRF) Research Report “Best Practices for Airport Portland Cement Concrete Pavement Construction (Rigid Airport Pavement)” is NOW AVAILABLE in SPANISH! To download the Spanish and English IPRF
The Louisiana Transportation Research Center (LTRC), USA and the Southeast Transportation Consortium (STC) released a publication titled “Best Practices for Achieving and Measuring Pavement Smoothness, A Synthesis of State-of-Practice”, summarizing
Historically, aggregate gradation has been controlled by specifications that call out envelopes for individual fractions, typically the coarse aggregate and the fine aggregate. The shortcoming of this approach is that
When it comes to building roads, increased competition between pavement industries can lower prices and save public money. Karl Downey, Secretary General-European Concrete Paving Association (EUPAVE), recently wrote an article
M. Shabbir Hossain, Ph.D., P.E., Senior Research Scientist D. Stephen Lane, Associate Principal Research Scientist In Cooperation with: U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (USDOT-FHWA) Virginia Center for Transportation
