APAI Regional Meetings inform over 200 attendees!

The APAI Regional Meetings concluded last week with over 200 state, county, city and civil engineers, public works officials, and contractors attending one of six regional meetings held across the State of Iowa. Meetings were held in Storm Lake, Council Bluffs, West Des Moines, Ottumwa, Quad Cities and Waterloo over the last two weeks of March and the first week of April. Attendees were treated to presentations on asphalt mix design for local systems, pavement rehabilitation and solutions, perpetual pavements roads and streets, using warm-mix asphalt and shingles, long-term performance of asphalt parking lots, porous roads and porous parking lots, using RAP to an agency’s advantage and much, much, more.

Some of the attendee comments included:

I appreciate the opportunity to attend, I learned a lot of new and exciting things about our infrastructure.

Thanks for the great conference and the location was great.
Keep up the great work!

Great conference – best one I’ve been to in the last two years.
Good start time.
Good finish time.
Good location.
Good lunch.
Plus the price was outstanding.

We appreciate all of our attendees taking time to learn more about the advantages of using asphalt for their next project. A special thanks to the APAI Staff: Minnie, Larry, Royce and consultant John Bellizzi for their hard work and our APAI contractor members who worked hard to make these regional meetings a great success. A special thanks to our contractor speakers: Alissa Wagner, Blacktop Services; Jeremy Anderson, Tri-State Paving; APAI President Dan Lewis, Knife River (x 2); Gary Johnson, Henningsen Const.; Steve Epley, Western Engineering; Jeff Chapman and Ted Huisman, DM Asphalt and Paving; Steve Moyna, Grimes Asphalt; Steve Rooney, Manatts and Nate Easter, HWS; Steve Leonard and Brady Meldrem, Norris Asphalt; Matt Thompson, General Asphalt; Brian Armstrong, Illowa Investment; Joe Manatt, Determann Asphalt; Dave Ricken, Heartland Asphalt; DeWayne Heintz, LL Pelling Co.; and a very special thanks to Gary Mauer, County Engineer of Grundy and Hardin Co. 

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