SCAPA Staff and Board of Directors would like to say thank you to all of our members who attended the 2022 SCAPA Summer Conference in Charleston. We enjoyed connecting with you! Thanks to John Mann, we are able to share several conference photos and pictures from the golf tournament. Lowcountry Photo Booth has also provided 360 videos and photo booth shots. For photos and highlights, learn more below.

We want to recognize all of our SCAPA Summer Conference Sponsors for your continued support. Because of you, we can continue to put on quality events. Be sure to thank the representatives from each of our Sponsor organizations when you see them.

Please save the date and reserve your room for the SCAPA Fall Member Dinner networking event. The event will be held at the Hilton Columbia Center on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022 at 6:30PM. Click Here to reserve your hotel room. Registration for the event will be out shortly. 

In an effort to ensure we have the highest quality presentations, we are seeking speakers and volunteers to serve on the 2023 SCAPA Winter Conference Planning Committee. Please review the attached article for details about submitting abstracts and volunteer request to Kimberly Lyons.

Our Technical Director, Kimberly Lyons represented SCAPA at the 2022 NAPA Midyear Meeting in sunny Santa Barbara, California. Several committees met during this meeting to discuss important industry issues: Sustainability Committee, Southeast Region Advisory Council, Committee for Engineering Application and Practice (CEAP), Legislative Committee and Committee for Asphalt Research & Technology (CART).

On July 1 our Technical Director held a seminar from the City of Orangeburg’s Water Division on “How to Properly Patch Flexible Pavements”. There were about 32 attendees and lunch was provided by the City of Orangeburg’s Water Division. The seminar went over the steps required to properly patch flexible pavements so that the patch will remain intact for the safety of the traveling public, and it sparked a lot of constructive conversation about properly patching pavements.

The SC Department of Transportation recently approved the 2022-2023 Pavement Improvement Program.  According to SCDOT, the miles contained in this year's program will add over 1133+ miles to the previously approved 5000+ miles of work since the implementation of Act 40 of 2017.  

SCAPA Associate Members: Consider providing a presentation for the 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.

Don't miss this AsphaltPro article by industry expert, John Ball, on the top 10 things to avoid on paving jobs. Industry training often focusing on steps crews need to take, but it is also important to remember what should not happen in paving operations. 

This insightful article from FMI's Ethan Cowles explaina the importance of developing your leaders out in the field. 

In this article, “The State of the Art: Application of Green Technology in Sustainable Pavement” by Wenjuan Sun et al 2018, the authors discuss the many studies that have been conducted on the development of green technologies for sustainable pavements by generating renewable energy and eliminating adverse environmental impacts. This article starts with a comprehensive summary of energy harvesting technologies.

Time: Tuesday, July 26, 2022; 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT
Speakers: Raven Adams, Sustainability Specialist, Granite Construction Inc.; Heather Dylla, PhD, Vice President of Sustainability and Innovation, Construction Partners Inc.; and Milena Rangelov, PhD, Research Engineer, Federal Highway Administration
Description: Increasingly, paving contractors are being asked by stakeholders to quantify the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with their operations. Various tools exist that allow organizations to quantify GHG emissions, each of which has its own methodology, scope, and system boundaries. This webinar will explore the various tools and approaches that organizations use quantify GHG emissions associated with asphalt pavements, ranging from direct emissions associated with operations to cradle-to-grave life cycle assessments (LCAs).

Date: Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Tim Murphy, P.E., President, Murphy Paving Technology, Inc.
Description: This webinar is for civil and geotechnical engineers and architects who seek to learn more about designing asphalt pavements. This webinar will teach proper design methodology and will offer best practices to ensure thickness design of proper long-lasting asphalt pavement parking lots, warehouses, and distribution centers (DCs).

Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm EDT
Speakers: Steve McReynolds, Director of Operations, Asphalt Testing Solutions & Engineering and TJ Young, Production Manager, Duval Asphalt
Description: Civil and geotechnical engineers often specify asphalt for projects but don’t always get the opportunity to learn about production and construction of the product. This webinar will take attendees behind the scenes using drone video to explore the asphalt production process leading up to delivery on-site. Furthering this educational opportunity, engineers will learn about the construction process by watching asphalt placement and hearing tips to specify and design high-quality jobs presented by experienced asphalt experts.

The 2022 SCDOT certification course schedule has been released. Online registration is available on TCTC's website at www.tctc.edu/scdot.

Note that 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. 

In Arkansas, 276 miles of concrete interstates were given new life in a rubblize-and-overlay program. Rubblization makes the base into an interlocked matrix of pieces as the concrete breaks up. The asphalt overlay can even turn a failed concrete pavement into a Perpetual Pavement.