Past industry events hosted by VAA and its partners are shown in this section.  Under each event (click on + sign) you will find topics presented at that event.  All of these presentations can be downloaded and/or printed.

2021 Discussion With The Department

  1. Federal Infrastructure and Highway Reauthorization – Thomas Nelson, Jr. Virginia Division Administrator, FHWA
  2. VDOT’s Program and Funding – Stephen Brich, Commissioner, VDOT
  3. VDOT’s Efforts on Sustainability and the Environment – Rob Cary, Chief Deputy Commissioner, VDOT
  4. 2021 Paving Program Review and Thoughts – Trenton Clark, President, VAA
  5. Overview of Pavement Performance and 2022 Schedule Funding – Kevin Gregg, Chief of Maintenance and Operations, VDOT
  6. Construction Program Update – Bart Thrasher, Chief Engineer, VDOT
  7. Implementation of E-Construction in Virginia – Kerry Bates, State Construction Engineer, VDOT
  8. Implementation of E-Construction in Virginia – Trenton Clark, President. VAA
  9. SWaM Program and Davis-Bacon – Kerry Bates, State Construction Engineer, VDOT
  10. SWaM Program and Davis-Bacon – Trenton Clark, President. VAA

2018 Virginia Asphalt Conference & Expo

Attendees List
Exhibitors List By Company

Day 1 Morning Presentations
Pres 1 – Safety, Quality, Productivity – Brock
Pres 2 – Balanced Mix Design Approach – Babish
Pres 3 – VA’s Pavement Materials Research Program – McGhee
Pres 4 – VDOT Paving Awards – Babish
Pres 5 – VAA Paving Awards – Dudley

Day 1 Afternoon Presentations
Pres 1 – Managing High Rap Mixes – Young(Contact TJ Young For Presentation)
Pres 2 – NCAT Pavement Test Track – Powell
Pres 3 – 2019 VDOT Specification Changes – Crandol/Henion

Day 2 Morning Presentations
-Breakout Session 2
Pres 1 – National Update on Silica – Marks
Pres 2 – VOSH Updates on Silica – Hargrove
Pres 3 – Driving the Future of Safety for Construction Workers – Atkins
Pres 4 – Building Safety in Asphalt Plants – Glasheen
-Breakout Session 3
Pres 1 – City of Salem Paving Maintenance Program – Simpson
Pres 2 – Pavement Program Lynchburg – Simmons
Pres 3 – Paving Preservation Program Richmond – Horak
Pres 4 – Paving Program Alexandria – Martin
-Breakout Session 4
Pres 1 – I-64 Widening Phase I HIMA Liquid – Hedrick
Pres 2 – Allan Myers CCPRM & FDR – Rayfield
Pres 3 – Appomattox Bypass Rubblization & Overlay – Pieklik
Presentation 4 – Drone Technology In Construction – Dalrymple(Contact Ed Dalrymple III for Presentation)
-Breakout Session 6
Pres 1 – National Perspective on Pavement Marking – Campbell
Pres2 – National Perspective on Work Zone Safety – Marks
Pres 3 – Queue Management Pilot Program – Rider
Pres 4 – Rumble Strips: Combating Districted Driving in WZ’s – Rush
-Breakout Session 7
Pres 1 – Balancing Funding & Needs – Nelson
Pres 2- Planning Paving Schedules – Chisnell
Pres 3 – Contractors View of Maintenance Work Performance – Horton
-Breakout Session 8
Pres 1 – Porous Asphalt Parking Facility – Fitch
Pres 2 – RAP as Unbound Base Aggregate Layer – Tanyu
Pres 3 – Headlight STIC Project – McGhee
Pres 4 – performance Mix Design – Diefenderfer

Day 2 Afternoon Presentations
Pres 1 – Office of Transportation Innovation – McGhee
Pres 2 – VDOT 2019, Driving The Future in Organization – Cary
Pres 3 – VDOT Asphalt & Paving – Brich

2019 Asphalt Seminar

Pres.1 – VDOT Inititiatives PTRS

Pres.2 – Work Zone Safety

Pres.3a – 2019 VDOT Spec Change

Pres.3c – Contractors Safety

Pres.4 – Inspection Points for Patching, Milling 

Pres.5 -Keys to Successful Milling

Pres.6 – Tack Coat Best Practices

Pres.7 – Inspection Points for Paving and Compaction

Pres.8 – Paving & Rolling Best Practices

Pres.9 – Inspection Points for Density Testing

Pres.10 – Electronic Density Data Testing with Headlight

Pres.11 – Inspection Points for Pavement Marking

Pres.12 – Pavement Marking Consideration

Virginia Pavement Research & Innovation Symposium 2019

AGENDA

ATTENDEES

DAY 1

Pres. 1: Alkali & Acid Resistance Glass Fibers
Mike Jenkins, FORTA Corporation
Pres. 2: JBand
Dave Henderson, Asphalt Materials, Inc./Associated Asphalt, Inc.
Pres 3. Aquaphalt 4.0
Michael Wertheim, Aquaphalt
Pres 4. Balanced Mix Design & Pavement Design with VDOT PG 76E-28
Bob Kluttz, Kraton Polymers, LLC
Pres 5. Design & Instrumentation for the I-64 Pavement Recycling Project (Segment II)
Brian Diefenderfer, Ph.D., VTRC
Pres 6. Production Reporting for Tracking Paver Performance in Real Time
Kyle Neisen, Roadtec, Inc.
Pres 7. eConstruction: Digital Field Data Collection (Contact Dakota Clifford)
Dakota Clifford, VDOT-Central Office
Pres 8. Moisture Measurement System
Michael Dixon, Troxler Electronic Laboratories
Pres 9. Nesilex Silica Dust Suppressant
David Elam, Chemtek/Carter Machinery Co.

DAY 2

Pres. 1 Technology Upgrades for Aging Equipment
Brian O’Toole, InstroTek, Inc.
Pres 2. Hot Applied Non-Tracking Tack (Contact Eugene Cifers)
Eugene Cifers, Asphalt Emulsion Industries, LLC
Pres 3. Evotherm with Rubberized Asphalt and Ingevity’s Evoflex RMA
Trey Wurst, P.E., Ingevity
Pres 4. Overview of VDOT Reflective Cracking Mitigation Research
Hari Nair, Ph.D., VTRC
Pres.5 Chemically Engineered Crumb Rubber
Redmond Clark, Ph.D., Asphalt Plus
Pres 6. Asphalt Rejuvenators Used for High RAP Mixes
Jeff Weitzel, Road Science
Pres 7. Advances in Bio-Based Technology in Pavement Preservation (Contact Hassan Tabatabaee)
Hassan A. Tabatabaee, Ph.D., Cargill
Pres 8. ReGen-erating Aged Binder
Grover Allen, Ph.D., P.E., Blacklidge Emulsions
Pres 9. Variability Analysis of the IDEAL CT Test (Contact Ilker Boz)
Ilker Boz, Ph.D., VTRC

Virginia Pavement Research & Innovation Symposium 2018

Attendees List
Agenda

Day 1 Presentations
Pres2. Balanced Performance Based Mix design for Rejuvenated High-Recycled HMA – Cargill Industrial Specialties – Available From Cargill
 
Day 2 Presentations