National Concrete Pavement Technology Center

Schedule for Spring 2020

Spring 2020 lunch hour forum training (link) focuses on “Basics of Concrete Paving Construction and Inspection.” Registration at no cost is required two days in advance by 5 p.m. Participants are welcome to bring their own lunches or purchase box lunches on site for $7.  The complete spring schedule (dates between February 26 and April 24), as well as registration information, can be found here.

History

Since 2006—with support from the Iowa Concrete Paving Association (ICPA) and the Iowa Department of Transportation—the National Concrete Pavement Technology Center (CP Tech Center) has been delivering informal lunch hour forum continuing education to pavement engineers in now ten locations across Iowa every fall, winter, and spring.

Over the years, this free CP Tech Center training has provided more than 6,000 total attendees with state-of-the-industry insights from around the country and throughout Iowa on more than 40 technical topics related to the design, construction, and preservation of concrete pavements.

Each season’s forum topic is chosen by surveying the interests of previous attendees along with input from concrete industry experts. Since 2016, CP Tech Center Technology Transfer Engineer and Snyder & Associates’ Senior Engineer, Jerod Gross, PE, LEED^® AP, has led the CP Tech Center’s ongoing continuing education lunch hour forum series.

Slides for the CP Tech Center’s most recent lunch hour forum presentations are below:

2019–2020

• • Spring 2020—#46—Basics of concrete paving construction and inspection (Register)
  • Winter 2020—#45—How proper design and construction practices can produce long-life pavements
  • Fall 2019—#44—Integrated Materials and Construction Practices Update (IMCP)

2018–2019

• • Spring 2019—#43—Fundamentals of durable concrete mix design: Engineering concrete pavement mixtures for durability
  • Winter 2019—#42—Concrete pavement preservation fundamentals
  • Fall 2018—#41—Best practices for jointing of concrete pavements

2017–2018

• • Spring 2018—#40—Geosynthetics
  • Winter 2018—#39—Evolution of concrete pavements: Lessons learned for long-life concrete pavements
  • Fall 2017—#38—Back by popular demand: Rerun of ________________________

2016–2017

• • Spring 2017—#37—Optimizing subgrades & subbases for concrete pavements
  • Winter 2017— #36—Early-age cracking
  • Fall 2016—#35—Choosing the proper PCC mix for durability