NC² E-News
The “National Concrete Consortium (NC²) E-News: Advancing Concrete Pavement Research and Technology” newsletter began as the “CP Road Map E-News,” the quarterly newsletter of the former CP Road Map (or Long-Term Plan for Concrete Pavement Research and Technology). Each issue of the NC² E-News highlights new developments in concrete pavement research and technology from around the country.
Archive (2010–present)
Click on the arrow by each year to see all issues published that year; click on an issue date to view its PDF.
Note: During 2013, publication of the E-News was temporarily suspended because the initial CP Road Map contract ended June 2012 and the next did not begin until September 2013.
2024
- MAP Brief: Toward Performance-Engineered Curing
- News from the Road
- Learn about. . . Curing
2023
- MAP Brief: PEM Evolution: Then and Now
- News from the Road
- Learn about. . . Pavement Performance
- MAP Brief: Revisiting Concrete Scaling
- News from the Road
- Learn about. . . Scaling
- MAP Brief: Climate Change, Resilience, and Concrete Pavements
- News from the Road
- Learn about. . . Foundation Layers
- MAP Brief: Concrete Overlays
- News from the Road
- Learn about. . . Alternative SCMs
2022
- MAP Brief: Mechanistic-Empirical Design Methods for Concrete Pavement Solutions
- News from the Road
- Learn about. . . Internal Curing
- MAP Brief: Optimizing Concrete Pavement Opening to Traffic
- News from the Road
- Featured FHWA Concrete Clips
- Learn about. . . Concrete Permeability
2021
- MAP Brief: Quantifying Effects of Concrete Mixture Vibration
- News from the Road
- Featured FHWA Concrete Clips (+ MCTC News)
- Learn about. . . Evaluating Performance
- MAP Brief: 40-Year Pavements Demand Improved Foundations
- BIM: Data Integration to Reduce Life-Cycle Cost
- News from the Road
- Featured FHWA Concrete Clips
- Learn about. . . Performance-Based Specifications
- MAP Brief: Stringless paving: Smoother pavement at lower cost
- News from the Road
- Featured FHWA Concrete Clips
- Learn more about . . . Thin overlays
- MAP Brief: Understanding ASR. . .AND How to Mitigate It
- News from the Road
- Featured FHWA Concrete Clips
- Learn more about . . . Rapid construction
2020
- MAP Brief: Overview of Cement-Stabilized Subgrade Soils
- Featured FHWA Concrete Clips
- Learn more about . . . Concrete patching
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Development of an Improved Design Procedure for Jointed Unbonded Concrete Overlays on Concrete or Composite Pavements
- Featured FHWA Concrete Clips
- Recent NC² States’ Q&A Listserv Activity
- Learn more about . . . Concrete pavement shrinkage
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Extended-Life Concrete Bridge Decks Utilizing Internal Curing to Reduce Cracking—Results from Ohio DOT Field Trial
- Featured FHWA Concrete Clips
- Recent NC² States’ Q&A Listserv Activity
- Learn more about . . . Bridge deck cracking
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Development and Deployment of the Next Generation Concrete Surface
- NC² State Survey
- News from the Road
2019
- MAP Brief: Overview of the Guide for Concrete Pavement Distress Assessments and Solutions
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Optimized Joint Spacing for Concrete Overlays with and without Structural Fiber Reinforcement
- NCC State Survey
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (FRC) for Pavement Overlays
- Latest CP Tech Center Publications
- News from the Road
2018
- MAP Brief: Performance Experience and Lessons Learned from SPS 2 Test Sections of the Long-Term Pavement Performance Program (LTTP)
- Latest CP Tech Center Publications
- NCC State Survey
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Portland-Limestone Cement after 10 Years in the Field
- Latest CP Tech Center Publications – Three New
Concrete Guides for Users - NCC State Survey
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Using RCA in Pavement Base Products
- Videos on Concrete Pavements
- NCC State Survey Summaries
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Concrete Overlay Performance on Iowa’s Roadways – 2017
- News from the Road
2017
- MAP Brief: Performance Assessment of Nonwoven Geotextile Materials Used as Separation Layer for Unbonded Concrete Overlay of Existing Concrete Pavement Applications in the U.S.
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Concrete Pavement Recycling – Project Selection and Scoping
- NCC State Survey Summaries
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Developing a Quality Assurance Program (QAP) for Implementing Performance Engineered Mixtures for Concrete Pavements
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Performance Engineered Concrete Pavement Mixtures
- NCC State Survey Summaries
- News from the Road
2016
- MAP Brief: Causes of Transverse Cracking in Concrete Bridge Decks
- NCC State Survey Summaries
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Real Time Smoothness Measurements for PCC Pavements
- NCC State Survey Summaries
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Performance of Thin Roller Compacted Concrete Pavement under Accelerated Loading
- NCC State Survey Summaries
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Concrete Pavement Recycling and the Use of Recycled Concrete Aggregate in Concrete Paving Mixtures
- NCC State Survey Summaries
- News from the Road
2015
- MAP Brief: Internal Curing
- NCC State Survey Summaries
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Curing for Concrete Pavements
- NCC State Survey Summaries
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Spirit of St. Louis Airport Concrete Overlay
- News from the Road
- MAP Brief: Pavement Joint Deterioration: Recent Findings to Reduce the Potential for Damage
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: South Dakota
- MAP Brief: Concrete Pavement Curling and Warping: Observations and Mitigation
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Nebraska
- MAP Brief: Producing Freeze-Thaw Durable Concrete
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Iowa
2014
- MAP Brief: Relating Transport Properties to Performance
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Oklahoma
- MAP Brief: Optimized Aggregate Gradation
- News from the Road
- International News
- Updates from the States: Georgia
- MAP Brief: Deicing Salts and Concrete Pavements
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: FHWA
- MAP Brief: Constructing Concrete Pavements with Durable Joints
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Pennsylvania
- MAP Brief: Mixture Design and Proportioning for Concrete Pavements
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Michigan
2012
- MAP Brief: Multi-Year Concrete Overlays Program: What We Have Accomplished and Learned
- Review of the CP Road Map: Past, Present, and Future
- MAP Brief: Concrete Pavement Sustainability: State of the Practice
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Ohio
- MAP Brief: Full-Depth Repair for Concrete Pavements
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Oklahoma
2011
- MAP Brief: Precast Concrete Pavements
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Illinois
- The second edition of the CP Road Map is here!
- MAP Brief: Introducing–The CP Road Map, 2nd Edition
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Kansas
- MAP Brief: Full-Depth Reclamation for Concrete Pavements
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: California
- MAP Brief: Potential Materials Incompatibilities in Concrete Pavements
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: New York
- MAP Brief: Partial-Depth Repairs for Concrete Pavements
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: FHWA’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
- MAP Brief: Fly Ash as a Supplementary Cementitious Material in Concrete Mixtures
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Iowa
- MAP Brief: Intelligent Compaction for Concrete Pavement Bases and Subbases
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Mississippi
- MAP Brief: SmartCure: An Integral Part of an Intelligent Construction System
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Virginia
The former “CP Road Map E-News” section “Updates from the states” featured in-depth information about ongoing research in an individual state, FHWA, or NCHRP:
2010
- MAP Brief: Deleterious Chemical Effects of Deicing Solutions on Concrete Pavements
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Washington
- MAP Brief: Stringless Concrete Paving
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Pennsylvania
- MAP Brief: Roller-Compacted Concrete Pavements
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Minnesota
- Intro to the Special Issue: Updates from the International Technology Scanning Tour on Long-Life Concrete Pavements
- MAP Brief: Two-Lift Concrete Paving
- News from the Road
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Wisconsin
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Michigan
- MAP Brief: Job-Specific Optimization of Paving Concrete with COMPASS (Concrete Mixture Performance Analysis System)
- News from the Road
- Updates from the States: Indiana
- MAP Brief: Diamond Grinding to Reduce Tire-Pavement Noise in Concrete Pavements
- News from the Road
- Upcoming Events