SCAPA Members, register today for the 2022 SCAPA Summer Conference. We are excited to be back at Charleston Place again this year in the beautiful city of Charleston. The conference will be June 24-26 for Members and June 23-26 for the Board of Directors. Room Block ends soon and is filling up quickly; please reserve your room to get the very discounted room rate. SCAPA Members can register for the conference, reserve your room, and sign up to sponsor on our conference page at scasphalt.org.

If you are a SCAPA Member and haven't reserved your Sponsorship for the 2022 SCAPA Summer Conference, sign up today! As a sponsor, we will highlight you in all of our marketing materials, conference webpage, as well as on the mobile app and recognition throughout the conference. The sooner you sign up, the more exposure you will receive!!

Thank you for attending the SCAPA Spring Member Dinner and Legislative Day. We had a great turnout and a productive Legislative Day. We also want to say Thank You to our Sponsors: Hanson Aggregates Southeast, Ingevity, Southeast Emulsions, Stay Alert Safety. 

Join us for the second edition of the SCAPA Associate Member Training Series! This edition's topic is Compensation Strategies – Recruiting, Retaining, and Rewarding in 2022 and Beyond. This webinar will be presented by Dixon Hughes Goodman's Mark DeVerges, Senior Manager. The training will launch Wednesday, May 25, 2022 and will be held from 10:00 to 11:15 AM. The webinar is free for SCAPA Members and $25.00 for non-members. All attendees will receive 1 Professional Development Hour.

SCAPA Associate Members: Consider providing a presentation for our new SCAPA Associate Member Training Series. This is a monthly program wherein one SCAPA Associate member will partner with SCAPA to organize a virtual educational event for SCAPA membership and industry partners. Please fill out the included form to submit your presentation.

Your digital edition of South Carolina Asphalt Pavement Association's 2022 Membership Directory & Resource Guide is available now. Hard copies are avaialble at the SCAPA office, or visit our booth at an upcoming engineering conference. Thank you for reading!

Get the latest legislative update for May 2022, provided by Sunnie Harmon and John DeWorken of Lobby SC. Sine Die, Workforce Bills, Tax Relief and more in the May Legislative Update!

This past week, SCAPA representatives joined with transportation coalition members in Washington, DC to advocate on behalf of the Palmetto State's asphalt and road-building industry.

The SCDOT made the NCAT Implementation Spotlight with their research project: Paving Thick Lifts for Deep Rapid Rebuilds. This article discusses the benefits of using thick lifts of asphalt for a speedy fix.

When: May 24, 2022 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Speaker: Dr. Dave Trimm, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Auburn University 
Description: An asphalt perpetual pavement, properly designed and constructed, lasts longer than 50 years without requiring major structural rehabilitation or reconstruction, and needs only periodic surface renewal in response to distress confined to the top of the pavement. This webinar will discuss material and design selection, current perpetual pavement thickness practices, and present the latest award-winning perpetual pavements.

When: May 25, 2022 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Description: Since 2009, NAPA and FHWA have been collecting data on the use of recycled materials and warm-mix asphalt (WMA) technologies in the asphalt pavement industry. This webinar will provide the latest data on the use of materials such as reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), recycled asphalt shingles, (RAS), WMA and more.

When: June 6, 2022 at 11:00 AM EST
Description: Life cycle thinking provides a framework for understanding the economic and environmental aspects of a product over its complete life cycle. The pavement community commonly uses life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) to understand agency costs and user costs throughout the entire life cycle of a pavement. Agencies and other stakeholders are also starting to use life cycle assessments (LCAs) to quantify the potential environmental impacts of pavement designs at both an individual project level and a network level. This webinar will provide an overview of LCCA and LCA, with a focus on how these tools are applied to pavements to aid decision-making.

Time: Jun 15, 2022 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Description: Join the Women of Asphalt for an exciting conversation about psychological health and safety at work! Learn organizational, team and individual strategies for positive change, common workplace stressors, ideas for initiatives and strategies, and tips to help you move to becoming your best self at work!

Time: Jun 16, 2022 02:00 PM in EST
Description: This presentation will give a brief overview of PAVEXpress, a free, web-based flexural and rigid pavement design software. This wbeinar will focus on the asphalt pavement thickness design portion of PAVEXPress which is based on the 1993 AASHTO Guide for Design of Pavement Structures

The 2022 SCDOT certification course schedule has been released. Online registration is available on TCTC's website at www.tctc.edu/scdot.
The site will have only one of each course type available for registration at a time, so not all of the sections will show as available.