Coming up October 16-19, 2017 TXAPA will attend the Texas Association of County Engineers and Road Administrators (TACERA) annual conference in San Antonio. TXAPA will set up our display booth with specimens of asphalt mix types, literature on the proper materials and methods

TXAPA member Bruce Spracklen, TSIT, and TXAPA’s Larry Welch recently held a one-day training event with the City of Dallas asphalt inspection group. Engineers and Inspectors with the city attended. The city submitted specific topics to discuss and presentations were delivered based on their needs. Improved inspection of asphalt placement

The TxDOT highway letting is scheduled for October 3-4, 2017. The total tonnage for October is 515,205.

Safety

OSHA: Electronic Submission of Injury and Illness Records to OSHA...Behavioral economics tells us that making injury information publicly available will "nudge" employers to focus on safety...is the basis of the rule.

The new rule, which took effect Jan. 1, 2017, requires certain employers to electronically submit injury and illness data that they are already required to record on their onsite OSHA Injury and Illness forms. This was the topic of an earlier EHS Brief but now reporting is getting closer. Some of the data will also be posted to the

Houston, Texas welcomes the World of Asphalt Show & Conference and co-located AGG1 Aggregates Academy & Expo March 6-8, 2018. Over 350 of the industry's leading manufacturers and service providers in the aggregate, asphalt, pavement maintenance, and traffic safety industry

The TXAPA Scholarship Live and Silent Auction was held on September 21, 2017 at the La Torretta Lake Resort in Montgomery, Texas. It was a huge success and brought in over $300,000.00. If you missed this special event,

TXAPA recently participated in the 2017 Texas Civil Engineering Conference (CECON) in San Marcos. Resiliency in engineering was the theme at this year’s meeting. TXAPA’s Larry Welch spoke to the group during breakout sessions and also provided asphalt education and information through the TXAPA trade show booth. The goal was to educate

Earlier this year TXAPA launched our Fundamentals of Asphalt Pavements seminar series around the state. Four seminars have been conducted including: Fort Worth, Humble, Lufkin, and San Marcos. Our next seminar will be in Dallas followed by Lubbock. Check out TXAPA’s website for future information and to sign up to attend in your area. Our goal is to help everyone understand

TXAPA will host several webinars in the upcoming months. The first several webinars: Texas Asphalt Pavement Mix Types, Successful Pre-Paving Meetings, Best Practices for Compaction / Rolling Patterns are available on the TXAPA website. The next seminar will be on Best Practices for Milling and Profiling by Larry Welch and Gary Corley on October 26, 2017. The webinars will begin at 10:00 a.m. In order to attend the webinars, please follow these instructions:

Call in: (312) 757-3121

There is one webinar available from NAPA in October. This one is a continuance of the Back to Basics series. It is scheduled for Wednesday, October 25th.

The 43rd TXAPA Annual Meeting was held last week at the La Torretta Lake Resort in Montgomery, Texas, September 19-22. The meeting was extremely successful and members were able to enjoy great networking, technical sessions and more. There were over 500 members in attendance for the meeting. To read about the full meeting, be sure to look in the winter edition of the Texas Asphalt magazine.

If you have any technicians that need to be certified in asphalt or soils, you need to contact the Hot Mix Asphalt Center to