September–October 2024

• CP Tech Center awarded FHWA Cooperative Agreement
• CP Tech assists in MnROAD testing
• FHWA CPM feedback group
• Talking concrete pavements around the country

July–August 2024

• CP Tech Center receives AASHTO award
• CP Tech Center travels to the 13th International Conference on Concrete Pavements
• Talking concrete pavements around the country

May–June 2024

• CP Tech Center publishes Commentary on AASHTO R 101, Developing Performance Engineered Concrete Pavement Mixtures
• Talking concrete pavements around the country

March–April 2024

• CP Tech Center publishes Interim Guide for Reducing the Cradle-to-Gate Embodied Carbon Emissions of Paving Concrete
• Talking concrete pavements around the country

January–February 2024

• Taylor receives ACPA technical achievement award
• CP Tech Center publishes Optimizing Concrete Pavement Opening to Traffic
• Talking concrete pavements around the country

September–November 2022

• CP Tech Center wins ACI award
• FHWA Concrete Pavement & Materials Technical Feedback Group workshop held
• Talking concrete pavements around the country

July–August 2022

• Pooled fund launched to extend PEM and look beyond
• Third edition of Concrete Pavement Preservation Guide published
• Steve Tritsch retires
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Nick Popoff)

May–June 2022

• CP Tech Center welcomes Leif Wathne as Associate Director
• Second edition of Guide to Concrete Overlays of Asphalt Parking Lots released
• Finding new sources of fly ash for highway infrastructure
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Laura O’Neill Kaumo)

April 2022

• Maximizing your agency’s infrastructure bill ROI
• Making a difference behind the scenes for 25 years
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (David Howard)

February–March 2022

• Geotextiles for unbonded concrete overlays
• Fiber-reinforced concrete for bridge decks
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Michelle Wilson)

January 2022

• Adding concrete overlays to your “mix of fixes”
• Changes in AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design for concrete pavements
• Meet the board members (Matt Horsfield)

December 2021

• New Quality Control for Concrete Paving guide
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Steve Prosek)

November 2021

• New edition of the “Guide to Concrete Overlays”
• Optimizing vibration for concrete durability
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Bill Cuerdon)

October 2021

• ISCP honors CP Tech Center’s founding director
• New research engineer joins the CP Tech Center
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Rob Kish)

August–September 2021

• CP Tech Center welcomes John Adam as new associate director
• Mixture proportioning with less cement for improved performance + reduced CO₂ impact
• On the road again to talk concrete pavements
• Meet the board members (John Becker)

June–July 2021

• Airport concrete pavement program takes off
• PEM: Where next?
• On the road again to talk concrete pavements
• Meet the board members (John Hart)

May 2021

• Internal curing to reduce early-age cracking
• Preparing well for Biden’s infrastructure plan
• CP Tech Center continues “traveling” virtually
• Meet the board members (Mike Ireland)

March–April 2021

• Reducing cement content in optimized mixtures
• Two new guides on geotechnical cement released
• CP Tech Center continues “traveling” virtually
• Meet the board members (Shauna Hallmark)

February 2021

• How to entrain air voids for pavements that last
• Better measurements a key to better foundations
• CP Tech Center continues “traveling” virtually
• Meet the board members (Ernie Peterson)

December 2020–January 2021

• Did you know concrete overlays can fix THIS?
• One-page guidance for PEM tests now available
• CP Tech Center continues “traveling” virtually
• Meet the board members (Kevin McMullen)

December 2020–January 2021

• Did you know concrete overlays can fix THIS?
• One-page guidance for PEM tests now available
• CP Tech Center continues “traveling” virtually
• Meet the board members (Kevin McMullen)

October–November 2020

• New tech brief assesses harvested fly ash solution
• 2019 Research Needs Analysis now available
• CP Tech Center continues “traveling” virtually
• Meet the board members (Nicolas Marks)

August–September 2020

• States’ “Pavement Preservation – How” tools are online now
• Performance-engineered mixtures (PEM) update
• $3.5 million FAA research agreement takes off
• Guide to Concrete Trails serves public health
• Meet the board members (Greg Mulder)

June–July 2020

• ADA and preservation webinars make an impact
• Shadowing PEM: Which PEM tests when?
• Progress under FHWA Cooperative Agreement
• Meet the board members (Brent Burwell)

April–May 2020

• Overlays webinar tops expectations
• CP Tech Center remains active under COVID-19
• Surveying the impact of the CP Road Map
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Robert Seghetti)

February–March 2020

• NHI releases web-based preservation training
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Angela Folkestad)

January 2020

• Can drone technology help you? 4 proven use cases for unmanned aerial systems
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Jerry Voigt)

December 2019

• Best practice guidelines for real-time smoothness technology now available
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Mitch Dillavou)

November 2019

• Concrete Infrastructure Research Database is here to help you
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Mike Gordon)

October 2019

• “Early Practitioner Resources” web page available to bookmark
• Montana hosts Fall 2019 NC²
• Meet the board members (Joe Bush)

September 2019

• How DOES vibration affect concrete mixtures?
• Guide to Concrete Trails now released
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Patrick Cleary)

August 2019

• FHWA publishes Concrete Pavement Preservation Checklists
• Sign up now for the Fall 2019 National Concrete Consortium (NC²)
• Release of next-generation Iowa Pore Index (IPI) test device and procedures
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Steve Prosek)

July 2019

• Talking concrete pavements from coast to coast and beyond
• What every concrete professional should know about PEM
• Meet the board members (Peter Taylor)

June 2019

• Next-generation Integrated Materials and Construction Practices (IMCP) manual released
• Talking concrete pavements around the country
• Meet the board members (Kevin Merryman)

May 2019

• Penetrating sealer evaluation project takes off
• CP Tech–sponsored concrete competition a success
• Meet the board members (Shauna Hallmark)

April 2019

• New FRC tool and publications issued by CP Tech Center
• Places we have been
• NC²
• PCC Pavement and Materials Research Laboratory
• Meet the board members (Mike Byers)

March 2019

• CP Tech is represented in several states
• Meet the board members (Mike Ireland)

February 2019

• New research on internal curing now online
• Gordon Smith attends the 40th Annual Concrete Paving Workshop
• CP Tech Center at the TRB
• Meet the board members (Kevin McMullen)

January 2019

• Concrete Pavement Technologies Transfer project wraps up
• CP Tech Executive Board convened in November
• Summit attendees discuss concrete pavement overlays

December 2018

• Concrete Distress manual now online
• Macrofiber webinar transcripts available online
• Taylor presents at South African concrete gathering
• Meet the board members (Ernie Peterson)

November 2018

• New PEM Tech Brief available
• Tritsch addresses Pavement Preservation at workshop
• Taylor speaks at Cement Sustainability Initiative Forum
• Tritsch shares information on PEM tests and TRB Committee AFD00 at meeting
• Webinar series on fiber-reinforced concrete underway
• Meet the board members (Greg Mulder)

October 2018

• Adam joins CP Tech Center and PCC Lab
• CP Tech leads Fall National Concrete Consortium meeting
• Meet the board members (Maik Strecker)

September 2018

• Three new concrete guides ready for users
• Tracking Concrete Overlays to Australia
• Gordon Smith joins in PCA deliberations
• Meet the board members (Robert Seghetti)

August 2018

• New Tech Brief reports on recycled concrete aggregate use in roadway shoulders
• Open houses showcase PEM program demonstrations
• Meet the board members (Brent Burwell)
• Two new PhDs with concrete-related experience

July 2018

• Longtime PCC Lab supervisor to retire
• New CP Road MAP Tech Brief on RCA base products
• CP Tech Leadership Team Engaging with Constituents
• Promoting Performance Engineered Mixtures (PEM) in Denver
• Meet the board members (Jerry Voigt)

June 2018

• Geotextile overlay test summary issued
• Registration open for PCA Professors’ Workshop
• April CP Road Map issued on concrete overlays
• Taylor talks aggregates at Geological Society meeting
• PCA representative adds value to CP Tech board (Steven H. Kosmatka)

May 2018

• New manager sought for PCC Lab
• Time to sign up for Iowa Concrete Pavement (SPS-2) Tech Day
• Taylor, Smith headline recent Manitoba concrete pavement workshop
• Tritsch travels take him from Delaware to Texas
• Meet the board members (Mitchell Dillavou)

April 2018

• PEM Program: Delivering concrete to survive the environment
• New tech results shared by the MCT program
• Taylor presents at UI-UC Kent seminar series
• Meet the board members (Mike Gordon)

March 2018

• Two new tech briefs in the Concrete Pavement Recycling series
• Meet the CP Tech Center board members, first in a series (Joe Bush)

February 2018

• CP Tech staffers travel widely to share findings and insights
• National CP Tech Center advisors to meet in March
• CP Tech staff presented on PEMs at 2018 TRB

January 2018

• Taylor and Smith to speak at TRB workshops on PEM January 7
• CP Tech Center publishes trio of new reports on internal curing of concrete
• New Moving Advancements into Practice (MAP) Brief available
• CP Tech Center mentioned in new federal report

December 2017

• CP Tech welcomes new Executive Board member
• CP Tech helps host a successful Iowa Better Concrete Conference
• 2017 Municipal Streets Seminar offers new avenues for participants
• New pub highlights best practices for concrete construction
• New CP Tech research paper examines the Iowa Pore Index test

November 2017

• Iowa Congressman David Young tours ISU concrete lab
• Winter’s coming. Here’s a guide to help understand the causes of premature joint deterioration
• Concrete overlay performance on Iowa’s roadways
• CP Tech Center’s Taylor wins Technical Innovation Award
• You’re invited: Next Generation Concrete Surface in Houston

September 2017

• Gordon Smith joins CP Tech Center as an associate director
• PEM Program on the road teaching new specifications for better concrete
• NCC fall meeting
• Iowa District Concrete Lunch and Learn Forums

May 2017

• Full-depth reclamation with cement publication is now available
• Best Practices workshops continue
• NCC spring meetings
• Spring and summer webinars

February 2017

• New guide to durable joints
• Spring NCC meeting
• Spring webinars
• Advancing PEM
• Lab technician hired

November 2016

• Update on AASHTO specification on PEM
• Presentations from Iowa Better Concrete Conference
• Taylor responds to questions about joint deterioration

September 2016

• Article about West Des Moines project in Roads and Bridges
• Register for fall 2016 webinars (NEW topic: SCMs)
• Showcase on pavement smoothness a success
• Highlights from fall 2016 NC2 meeting
• Study completed re pavement monitoring via embedded sensors
• Coming: Web-based training on concrete pavement preservation

August 2016

• NC2 meeting is here!
• Register for fall 2016 webinars
• Just published: Patch repair mortar

July 2016

• NC2 meeting is around the corner
• Real-time smoothness showcase August 9
• Just published: Evaluation of modified concrete applications
• Products in the works

June 2016

• New report on internal curing available
• Spring 2016 “road show”
• Recorded webinars online
• Smoothness technology showcase in August
• New: Resources for students

May 2016

• Register for real-time smoothness showcase in Utah
• Spring 2016 webinar schedule
• Highlights from April 2016 NC2 meeting
• Peter Taylor named ACI fellow

April 2016

• Spring 2016 webinar schedule
• Final technical report re deterioration of joints
• NC2 meeting news

March 2016

• Spring 2016 webinar schedule
• Peter Taylor to be honored as ACI Fellow
• NC2 meeting news
• Well maintained roadways improve fuel efficiency

February 2016

• Staff announcements
• Correction to concrete overlay guide specification
• NC2 meeting news
• New NC2/TTCC webinars starting in March
• New publication on joint deterioration

November 2015

• New publications from the CP Tech Center
• Events
• Staffing update

October 2015

• New publications from the CP Tech Center
• Video highlights concrete overlays on asphalt parking lots
• September 2015 NCC meeting
• Two positions open at the CP Tech Center

September 2015

• NCC fall meeting
• NEW Spanish version of overlays manual
• CP Tech Center is supporting West Des Moines construction projects
• Center seeks associate director

August 2015

• Center seeks associate director
• Best practices for jointed concrete pavements.
• Updated, easy-to-use online courses through AASHTO’s TC3

July 2015

• Training opportunities
• Research highlights
• Peter Taylor accepts PCA foundation award to support students

May 2015

• April NCC meeting highlights
• Research database updated

March 2015

• CP Tech staff “Road Show”
• Training opportunities
• New CP Tech Center research results
• National research update

January 2015

• Training opportunities
• Recent CP Tech Center publications
• New CP Tech Center research results
• General PowerPoint presentation about the CP Tech Center now available