The SCAPA Winter Conference & Trade Show is the premier networking and educational event for the asphalt industry in South Carolina. Next Monday and Tuesday, asphalt industry professionals will gather in Columbia, South Carolina for this two day event.  Check out our conference website to prepare before you head to the Midlands next week!   

A huge THANK YOU to our sponsors for the 2023 SCAPA Winter Conference & Trade Show! We couldn't do what we do without you! 

This month, the SC Asphalt Pavement Association welcomed Cliff Selkinghaus as the association's newest Technical Director.

Get ready for the upcoming Winter Conference by downloading the SCAPA Conferences and Events mobile app, now available in the Apple Store and Google Play Store.  In an effort to reduce the amount of paper used, we will have limited quantities of printed brochures available at the conference.  

 

SCAPA and SCDOT just completed another successful round of the Partners In Quality (PIQ) meetings this winter. The program began last month in Greenville at the District 3 Headquarters Building, and ended this past week in Columbia at the District 1 PIQ at the Shop Road ITS Building.

SCAPA Members, please Save the Date for the Spring Member Dinner and Legislative Day. Registration will open soon!  

The Spring Member Dinner will be held the evening of Tuesday, April 25th and will be followed by Legislative Day on April 26th.  Please mark your calendar to join us. 

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.

The SCAPA Board of Director welcomes new Associate Member, Colorbiotics! Colorbiotics is a chemical additive supplier based out of Ames, Iowa.

The largest construction show in North America; CONEXPO-CON/AGG will be March 14-18, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Get the latest legislative update for February 2023, provided by Sunnie Harmon and John DeWorken of LobbySC.

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, featuring Auburn University's Dr. Dave Timm, will discuss material and design selection, current perpetual pavement thickness practices, and present the latest award-winning perpetual pavements.  

There are many misconceptions when it comes to cure time of asphalt.

Dr. Grover Allen of the Asphalt Institute dives deeper into this term that is commonly used by asphalt contractors and engineers. The major issue is the misinformation supplied by simply searching the internet for answers.

Plastic waste is an ongoing concern for our environment. Agencies and industry are keenly interested in the use of recycled plastic waste in asphalt, which holds potential to both improve asphalt pavements’ performance and reduce the amount of plastic waste. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, March 16, 2023 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern that will include up-to-date engineering information pertaining to recycled plastic waste in asphalt pavements. Presenters will highlight the current state-of-knowledge, summarize ongoing research on the topic, focus on the timeline of related research products, and provide overseas lab and field experience for an international perspective.

In this paper, the effect of the combined use of re-recycled Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) on the performance properties of Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) was experimentally investigated at both binder and mixture scales.

The 2023 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.