2011 APAI Regional Meetings Educate over 250 Attendees

The APAI staff and members recently completed the six 2011 APAI Regional Meetings held across the State of Iowa during the end of March and first week of April. The meetings held in Sioux City, Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Mason City, Dubuque, and Coralville were a resounding success according to the attending local IDOT, city, county and consulting engineers. APAI Field Engineers, Larry Mattusch and Royce Fichtner; APAI Consultant, John Bellizzi; and APAI Executive Vice President, Bill Rosener; along with local contractors, county engineers and IDOT engineers, presented on topics that are relevant to today’s new longer-lasting asphalt pavements.

The theme of the Regional Meetings was “Smoother, Faster, Smarter” and the presentations reflected strongly the “Smarter” aspect of asphalt pavements, including the use of RAP, RAS (recycled asphalt shingles), and WMA (warm-mix asphalt). Along with these discussions, attendees were shown how to design local systems asphalt pavements, rehabilitate failing PCC pavements, and how to build Perpetual Asphalt Pavements.

We would like to sincerely thank all of our attendees and our special guest presenters: Alissa Wagner (twice), Blacktop Services; Dan Lewis, Knife River; Brad Lenz, Ames Manatts; Scott Schram, IDOT; Brad Henningsen, Henningsen Const.; Dan Ahart, Shelby Co.; Steve Epley and Ray Arnold, Western Engineering; Dan Staebell (twice), Mathy Const.; Dave Ricken, Heartland Asphalt; Scott Keuter, River City Paving; Todd Kinney, Clinton Co.; Roger Boulet, IDOT; Dan Gee, Gee Asphalt Systems; and DeWayne Heintz, LL Pelling Co. We look forward to seeing you all again next year!

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