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Up Front
 On Saturday December 1, TXAPA welcomed more than 50 students from five Texas universities— University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at El Paso, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas State, Texas Tech— and the University of Oklahoma for the Second Annual Asphalt Road-eo. Competitors were tasked with creating an asphalt slab that would score highly in the areas of skid, rutting, and cracking resistance. In addition, each team presented to a panel of judges who then tested the teams with in-depth questions about their mix-design. The highest scoring teams won first and second place with a tie for third. This year UTEP swept the competition taking first and second place! Texas Tech and OU rounded out the winners' circle in a tie for third place. First Place: UTEP Miner Girls (From left: Mayra Reyna, Angelica Torres, and Alexandra Torres, not pictured) Second Place: UTEP Orange Picks (Luis Cordoba, Getsemani Molinar, Elias Valdez) Third Place: Texas Tech FLT (Christopher Saldana, Joshua Randolph, Grant Jimenez, Jessica Butler) Third Place: OU Asphalt (Dominique Pittenger, Anita Zelada Espinoza, Yocelin Piedra, Kevin Lepissier, Blake Gerard) Please join us in Congratulating our winners and all the students who participated! Special Thank You to our sponsors and to the Texas Asphalt Pavement Association Scholarship Program for providing a $1,000 scholarship to the first place team.     Get to know asphalt pavement in Texas from a whole new perspective. This presentation is packed with interesting facts and figures from asphalt's history to the present day. Delivered by Larry Welch in his engaging signature style, it's everything you ever wanted to know about asphalt and more! Date: Thursday, December 13, 2018 Time: 10:00 AM CST  2019 TXAPA Membership Meeting Start Date: 1/17/2019 2:30 PM CST End Date: 1/18/2019 12:00 PM CST Venue Name: San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter (Special TXAPA Group Rate Available, Book Hotel Room) Location:101 Bowie St., San Antonio, TX United States 78205 Join us on the famed San Antonio Riverwalk for the 2019 TXAPA Membership Meeting. Learn what the Association has in store for the new year, meet with your fellow members, and get an update from TxDOT on the 2019 Transportation Program. Stick around the next day for our Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard Compliance Workshop and learn what you need to know to meet the standard.  Start Date: 1/30/2019 8:00 AM CST End Date: 1/30/2019 4:00 PM CST Venue Name: Radisson Ft. Worth Fossil Creek Location: 2540 Meacham Blvd. Fort Worth, TX United States 76106 
Technically Speaking
Governor Greg Abbott has declared Wednesday, December 5 an official day of mourning, in observance of the passing of President George H.W. Bush. All state agency offices have been instructed to close or run a skeleton crew. Per TxDOT Construction Division Director Gina Gallegos, TxDOT will hold the letting as scheduled.  The TxDOT Highway Letting is December 5 and 6. The tonnage report is brought to you by Whitley & Siddons. Please note that in our efforts to bring you more timely information, the TxDOT Letting Report is posted to the TXAPA website at the link above even before the newsletter goes out. For the full letting schedule, click here.  We generally recognize that effective compaction is the single most critical variable in placing quality asphalt pavement with an extended pavement life. In cold weather, proper compaction requires the perfect balance of temperature and time.
MultiCool is a user-friendly application that calculates the rate of cooling in an HMA mat during construction. It requires that the user input such items as the time of day (entered automatically according to the computer's clock), latitude, air temperature, wind speed, mix information and lift thickness for each HMA lift, type of material being paved over, its temperature and whether or not the soil or base are frozen. The program then computes how quickly each lift of HMA will cool and when the next lift may be placed. This allows field personnel to make decisions concerning cold weather paving and the scheduling of HMA deliveries to the paving site.
 The ultimate goal of our webinars is to help our audience understand more about working with asphalt to produce high-quality roads with longer service life, so it's fitting that we conclude our Texas Asphalt Pavement User Guide Series with a webinar on award-winning asphalt pavements. What are they and how do you achieve award-winning quality on your project? Tune in to this webinar to find out!
In The Works
 February 27 and 28, 2019 in Dallas, Texas TXAPA's Associate Member Committee Chair Kyle Riggs of Texas Lime Company is working with fellow associate members to plan a two day conference for local governments, consulting engineers, paving crews, and anyone tasked with managing city and county roads or asphalt paving projects. The first day of the conference, called Managing Asphalt Pavements for Local Governments, or MAPs, will feature two engineer-focused tracks on materials and design. Day two will feature a paving and compaction track for road crews and "boots on the ground" employees and another track featuring the same material adapted to an engineer's perspective. The meeting is planned for February 27-28, 2019 and will take place in the City of Dallas, Texas. TXAPA has plans to produce the meeting regionally choosing a different city each year to host. With MAPs, TXAPA hopes to enable local governments to better utilize asphalt from planning and design to finished project. Dave Newcomb of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), Harold Von Quintus of Applied Research Associates, Inc.and Danny Gierhart of the Asphalt Institute have committed to speak at the event. Share the link below with your contacts in Local government, consulting engineers, paving crews, anyone tasked with managing city and county roads or asphalt paving projects.  In an industry surrounded by opportunities and challenges, it takes care and insight to stay a few ahead of your competitors. New technologies, new strategies, and insight into the industry’s future direction can help your company drive its competitive advantages, expand its operations, and achieve greater success.
 Indianapolis, Indiana welcomes the World of Asphalt Show & Conference and co-located AGG1 Aggregates Academy & Expo February 12-14, 2019. Over 450 of the industry's leading manufacturers and service providers in the aggregate, asphalt, pavement maintenance, and traffic safety industry sectors come together at World of Asphalt to showcase their latest products and technologies. National Asphalt Pavement Association's People, Plants & Paving Conference takes place at the show making it the ideal spot to train your team. 
In the Know
 Integrity, Customer Service, Quality, Innovation, Selection, Expertise and Price! In 1939, Gilson introduced our Testing Screen in response to Mining and Highway Construction industry demands for greater control of material quality. The Testing Screen is still a center piece in most modern aggregate labs, but Gilson has not been standing still. As the company has grown, so has our reputation for superior expertise, innovation, and development of particle size analysis and sample dividing equipment. While we constantly develop and seek out new products, our philosophy remains the same; we offer high-quality products at competitive prices, and back up our great customer service with dedicated technical support. Our goal is to exceed your expectations!  HNTB Corporation is an employee-owned infrastructure solutions firm serving public and private owners and contractors. With more than a century of service, HNTB understands the life cycle of infrastructure and addresses clients’ most complex technical, financial and operational challenges. Professionals deliver a full range of infrastructure-related services, including award-winning planning, design, program and construction management. Our culture is defined by integrity, technical excellence and providing quality work on time and on budget to our clients’ satisfaction. The ideals and values that have guided HNTB for its first 100 years still hold true today.  Varied Experience Ready for Any Challenge Because our lead personnel has had varied experience, TCC is ready for any challenge. It is our goal to close out projects quickly and efficiently. Texas Cordia has the ability to address a project punch list and complete a project proficiently and professionally. We take pride in our ability to provide personalized quality-assured services. We are able to ensure that projects are completed on time and meet or exceed your needs with continuous, open communication with the project engineer, project managers, project inspectors, and owner representatives. We pledge our total commitment and are ready to respond promptly and efficiently to serving your needs. Texas Cordia Construction has a solid reputation in the construction industry. Please feel free to contact any of our past clients, prime contractors, subcontractors and vendors.  Did you know about PaveXpress, a scoping tool to help you create simplified pavement designs while taking into account key engineering inputs?
If you have been having trouble accessing the TXAPA website, it may be because we don’t have the correct information for you in our Member Database. If you know your email address, you can retrieve BOTH your username and password by following the steps after you click "Login." If that doesn’t work, please call the office at (512) 312-2099 or email Kelli Mofle. Certification News From The HMAC
Certification and training classes through the HMAC are filling up fast! Check on the schedule online.
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