Thank you to all our SCAPA Members for showing up for the SCAPA Fall Member Dinner. We had an amazing turnout with close to 80 members in attendance. Also thank you to our Sponsors for supporting the Fall Member Dinner and SCAPA events.

This month, we bid farewell to our Technical Director, Kimberly Lyons, PhD. The SCAPA Board of Directors and Staff wish Dr. Lyons the best in her new opportunity!

SC Department of Health and Environmental Control and the SC Department of Commerce invited various industries, agencies and associations to join them last month in Columbia, SC to discuss the future of scrap tires in South Carolina.

We are excited about what this year's conference holds and hope you will plan to join us. Save the Date: February 27 & 28, 2023 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in Columbia, SC. 

As we come to the end of our Fiscal Year on September 30, we are preparing invoices for the 2022-2023 Fiscal Year. You can expect these invoices in your mailbox, as well as your email inbox, the first week of October. Please contact us to be sure your billing contact information is correct. Please contact Yvette at ycritchfield@scasphalt.org and she will look up who we have as the current billing contact for your organization. You may also go to the member portal and make changes, edit current employees and more. 

You should have received an email from us requesting updates for the 2023 Membership Directory & Resource Guide. Please review your current directory listing and provide updates to Yvette at ycritchfield@scasphalt.org. 

2022 Digital Membership Directory & Resource Guide: Click Here

If you have not been in the SCAPA Member Portal lately, you may not have seen the new look! We would like for the Member Portal to be a resource for you and hope to add more members-only content to it. You can get to the Member Portal from the new website at www.scasphalt.org and click Member Login from the menu. Click to learn more about why you need to be on the Member Portal.

Learn more about the updates recently made to the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program by the Department of Transportation (DOT) using a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). The NPRM gives DBEs an opportunity to compete for federally funded transportation contracts. However, NAPA has identified the following issue for comment and welcomes input from the members of the Legislative Committee on this or any other DBE issue in the NPRM. The closing date for submission of comments is Oct. 31.

Governor Henry McMaster recently signed Executive Order 2022-31, which is focused on Electric Vehicles. The order provides for a SCDOT Working Group and Department of Commerce Coordinator. 

Stone matrix asphalt (SMA), also called stone mastic asphalt, is a durable and rut-resistant asphalt mixture that relies on stone-on-stone contact to offer strength and a rich mortar binder to provide durability (Hughes 1999). This study was undertaken to objectively and comprehensively quantify and compare the performance and life-cycle cost benefits of SMA versus those of polymer-modified Superpave dense-graded mixtures used on similar trafficked highways. Results obtained from this study provide highway agencies with additional guidance regarding the use of SMA as a premium asphalt mixture.

Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT
Speakers: Mike Skinner, PE, Director of Pavement Engineering, Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association
Description: Parking lot pavements have significant differences than traditional roadway pavements. Material types, mix design, and construction practices will be discussed to improve service life and reduce maintenance costs. Attendees will be equipped with best practices for designing asphalt parking lots.

Date: Monday, November 21, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT
Speakers: Kyler Carlson, Washington State DOT; John Senger, Illinois DOT; Praveen Desaraju, Maryland State Highway Administration; Kevin Burke, Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association; Karen Carlie, Washington State DOT; Marshall Klinefelter, The Maryland Asphalt Association and Dave Gent, Washington Asphalt Pavement Association
Description: Perpetual pavements represent the best opportunity for owners – a long-lasting base with the opportunity to provide the smooth pavements road users expect. Even though perpetual pavements have existed around the U.S. for many years, road owners are just beginning to understand the long-term value provided by perpetual pavements. This webinar will feature three different award-winning perpetual pavement projects showcased and explained by the respective Department of Transportation and State Asphalt Pavement Association. This webinar is a great opportunity to learn why DOTs across the United States are choosing perpetual pavements to meet their needs and the demands of road users.

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. 

ASPHALT IS THE QUIET PAVEMENT. Quiet pavement technologies include open-graded surfaces, fine-graded surfaces, and two-layer open-graded pavements. Noise reductions of 3 to 10 decibels are common.