APAM NEWS
Volume 9, Issue 6 October 2014
|
2014 Asphalt Paving Awards-Submit Your Nominations
There is still time to submit your nominations for the "Other Regions" Deadline! This is for the Bay, Grand, Metro, Southwest and University Regions. The deadline is October 15th! The APAM/MDOT Nomination Form is available on the APAM website home page, right hand side under the APAM Events and Happenings Box, or you can click on the link above!
Be sure and save Thursday, December 11, 2014 and plan to attend the Awards Banquet at the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center in East Lansing.
APAM Welcomes New Member
Please welcome Federal Paving, Inc. as APAM's newest HMA Contractor Member.
Federal Paving, Inc.
Contact: RJ Orozoo, Vice President
2260 Auburn Road
Auburn Hills, MI 48326
Phone: 248-338-3310
SAVE THE DATE!
Save March 10-11, 2015 for the 59th Annual APAM Asphalt Paving Conference at the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort, Mt. Pleasant, MI.
|
APAM Partners with MDOT on Quality Enhancements
As a result of ongoing discussions between APAM and MDOT regarding quality improvement, the Hot Mix Asphalt Operations Committee (HMAOC) has taken action aimed at improving the durability of asphalt pavements.
MDOT has recently changed the regression requirements on E10, E30, & E50 mixes. The changes were made to the PWL specification, and require E10, E30, & E50 mixes used as top and leveling courses to be regressed to 3% air voids. The goal is to increase the asphalt content of theses mixes.
Therefore, the following 2012 FUSPs have been updated and will be in all future contracts:
Superpave Hot Mix Asphalt Percent Within Limits, dated 9-24-14.
12SP-501V-02
Superpave Hot Mix Asphalt Percent Within Limits for Capital Preventive Maintenance Mill & Resurface Projects and Capital Preventive Maintenance One Course Overlay Projects, dated 9-24-14.
For the above SP's, the only change is to the footnote of Table 3, shown here
Future quality improvements that are scheduled to be implemented by January 2015 are:
1. Only allow fine graded mixes on top course.
2. Reinstitute an incentive program for Ride Quality.
MDOT Issues Updated and New Special provisions
The following 2012 FUSPs have been added:
12SP-104E-01 Construction Document Management - (Use in all trunkline projects. Do not use on Local Agency Projects).
12SP-900A-01 Industrial By-Products And Beneficial Re-Use - (Use in all projects).
MDOT Bureau of Highway Instructional Memorandum
Bureau of Highway Instructional Memorandum 2014-09
External Civil Rights Requirements, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO),
Title VI, On-The-Job Training (OJT), and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
(DBE) for Federal Aid Construction Projects.
This instructional memorandum sets forth changes and clarifications to the Michigan Department of Transportation's (MDOT's) external civil rights processes. The procedures in this BOHIM are effective immediately unless noted otherwise in other MDOT documentation and apply to all MDOT construction projects (MDOT and local agency) involving federal and/or state funding.
|
New Video Highlights Asphalt's Advantages
 In the dynamic, minute-and-a-half video Road Age, the Asphalt Pavement Alliance captures the fundamental importance of providing smooth, well-maintained roads for drivers. The video shows the impacts poorly maintained roads have on the driving public. Viewers take away the message that as roads age, they require periodic maintenance to ensure a consistently high level of performance and drivability, and that asphalt is easy to maintain in a cost-effective way that minimizes disruption for the travelling public.
OSHA Announces New Severe Injury Reporting Requirements
In September, OSHA released its final rule on reporting requirements for serious injuries and fatalities. The rule, effective Jan. 1, 2015, requires employers under federal OSHA jurisdiction (including asphalt plants and road construction operations) to report all  job-related fatalities within eight hours and any job-related hospitalizations, amputations, or the loss of an eye within 24 hours. Under current rules, three or more employees must be hospitalized before the reporting requirement is triggered. OSHA defines "in-patient hospitalization" as "a formal admission to the in-patient service of a hospital or clinic for care or treatment, [excluding] hospitalization that involves only observation or diagnostic testing" (Section 1904.39(b) of the rule). For further information visit OSHA's Recordkeeping Update.
Read Asphalt Pavement Online
The latest edition of Asphalt Pavement magazine is now available to read online.  Features include a look at how porous asphalt helped keep beaches open in Provincetown and profiles of Operational Excellence Award-winning companies' safety, environmental plants, brochures, websites, and community relations programs.
Click here to read the September/October 2014 issue of Asphalt Pavement.
|
|
PaveXpress Eases Pavement Design
(Free Webinar, October 16, 2014, 2:30 p.m.)
Designing the right pavement for the job got easier thanks to PaveXpress, a free Web-based pavement design scoping tool for roadway and parking lot pavements. PaveXpress- www.pavexpressdesign.com - creates technically sound pavement structural designs for flexible and rigid pavements based on widely accepted industry standards from the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
PaveXpress is designed for use by local agencies, engineers, architects, consultants, and engineering students who need a reliable way to quickly determine the necessary pavement thickness for a given section of roadway or project. The software only asks users for inputs required to create technically sound pavement designs, and it suggests industry-accepted defaults where appropriate.
The simplified pavement design tool is based upon design equations from the 1993
AASHTO Guide for the Design of Pavement Structures and the 1998 Supplement to the AASHTO Guide for the Design of Pavement Structures. For parking lots, two approaches are used. For heavy-duty sections expected to handle truck and bus traffic, AASHTO design equations are employed; for light-duty sections, such as parking stalls, the tool provides access to state-specific flexible pavement designs based upon industry-accepted standards and guidance.
To introduce PaveXpress to users, a free webinar highlighting the tool's capabilities will be hosted by the Asphalt Pavement Alliance on October 16, 2014 at 2:30 p.m. ET. To register for the Oct. 16 webinar, click here. (1.5 PDHs are available for this webinar upon successful completion of the post-webinar test.)
PaveXpress was developed by Pavia Systems, a leader in the development of software and technology for the transportation infrastructure sector, with funding from the National Asphalt Pavement Association and the State Asphalt Pavement Associations. Planned future updates to PaveXpress will add modules for the design of overlays, as well as tools for mechanistic-empirical pavement designs.
|
|
Upcoming Training
Asphalt Academy Fall 2014 & 2015 Seminars & Webinars
The Asphalt Institute announces its Asphalt Academy fall 2014 and 2015 seminar and webinar dates. We have now divided our seminars into the Asphalt Binders, Asphalt Mixtures, Asphalt Construction, and Asphalt Airfields categories to help you find the type of training you are looking for. For a complete list of seminar offerings click here or click any of the seminar titles below to be taken directly to the page for that seminar/webinar. Each seminar/webinar page will have a complete list of dates, locations, and registration as well as detailed seminar information.
RED LETTER DATES:
Webinars:
- October 22, 2014 - 12 Noon-1:30 pm EST - $85
- October 29, 2014 - 12 Noon-1:30 pm EST - $85
- November 5, 2014 - 12 Noon-1:30 pm EST - $85
Seminars:
- November 4-6, 2014 - Providence, RI - $1195
- November 10-13, 2014 - AI HQ's, Lexington, KY - $995
- November 11-14, 2014 - AI HQ's, Lexington, KY - $1495
- November 20-21, 2014 - St. College, PA - $425
Ferris State University - Institute for Construction Education and Training (ICET)
ICET currently offers technician training programs in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Transportation for the following certification programs:
*Certified Aggregate Technician Level One
*Certified Aggregate Technician Level Two
*Certified Hot Mix Asphalt Lab Technician Level One
*Certified Density Control Technician
*Certified Hot Mix Asphalt Paving Operations Technician
*Certified Hot Mix Asphalt QC/QA Technician
Classes for the 2015 season are now open for registration. Click here.
2015 MDOT Certification Training for Superpave Asphalt Mix Designers Course
This certification course is required for Mix Designers who submit MDOT designs.
Date: March 23-26, 2015
Location: Horatio S. Earle Center (Formally MDOT Secondary Center)
7575 Crowner Drive, Dimondale, MI.
For flyer and registration information, click here.
|
|
