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Up Front
 J. Bruce Bugg, Jr., Chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission will deliver a breakfast keynote on Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 8:30 AM. Be sure to register for the Annual Meeting online and book your accommodations soon! Don't miss this or any other event in our lineup. This event is available for sponsorship. Contact Emily Adams for more information. (512) 312-2099 or eadams@texasasphalt.org
 See any TXAPA Board Member or Committee Chair to buy your tickets early. You may also purchase tickets during the 2019 Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Don't miss your chance to win one of three great items and support the TXAPA Scholarship Program.
 The Associate Member Challenge is underway and so far, TXAPA Associate Members have raised $4,500 in support of the TXAPA Scholarship Program. Associate Member Advisory Committee Chair Bruce Spracklen has set a goal of $100,000 by the time of the Annual Meeting. There are more than two months left to go! If every Associate Member participates, the goal will be easily met!
TXAPA Thanks Associate Members Atascosa Recycling, Calibration Solutions, Elms Macchia,PLLC, HNTB, Lhoist North America, T-K-O Equipment, and TSIT for their generous support.
Participating companies recieve recognition on our FaceBook page and on TexasAsphalt.org.
 The TXAPA 45TH Annual Meeting takes place September 17-20, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa in San Antonio, Texas. Last year we RAISED THE BAR and in 2019, we're taking it to a whole new level as we ACCELERATE TO EXCELLENCE! The TXAPA 45TH Annual Meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa. A group room rate is available exclusively to TXAPA 45TH Annual Meeting attendees. This rate is effective through Monday, August 26, 2019, OR until the room block is sold out. Don't delay, book your room today! If you need additional assistance, please contact us at 877-803-7534 or click here to find contact information by Region. If the group rate is no longer available, prevailing rates may be offered for some or all of your dates. Every year, our generous sponsors play a crucial role in making the TXAPA Annual Meeting one of the most highly anticipated events of the year. There are numerous sponsorships available including the opportunity to entirely sponsor an event. The number of sponsorships is listed to the right of each item in parenthesis. To become a sponsor, please contact Emily Adams at (512) 312-2099 or by email at eadams@texasasphalt.org. The TXAPA Golf Tournament will take place on Tuesday, September 17. We'll be playing the Hill Country Golf Club's 27-hole resort course. We will follow our usual four-person team scramble format. The top 10 teams will be entered into a first, second, and third place prize drawing. The winners will be chosen at the Welcome Night Casino Party later in the evening. There will be several hole contests, including the infamous extortion hole, and mulligans will be available for purchase. Handicaps will not be used. Itinerary and Registration The tournament fee includes green fees, cart fees, range balls, box lunch, beverages on the course, and awards.
Bloody Mary Bar Generously Sponsored By East Texas Asphalt and Colorado Materials Join us Tuesday, September 17 for TXAPA's Annual Sporting Clays Tournament. Your registration fee of $100 includes firearm rental, ammunition, and 50 rounds of sporting clays. Shooters may bring their personal firearms. Be sure to check the box for the TXAPA Sporting Clays Tournament when you register for the TXAPA 45TH Annual Meeting! Spouses and Guests not attending Technical Sessions can join us for a day at one of San Antonio's hottest spots for shopping and dining. We'll shuttle from the hotel to the historic Pearl Brewery, tour the facilities and shops before dining at Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery. Top off the day with a barge tour of the river ending at the La Villita Historic Arts Village. The fee for this event is $150. Be sure to select it when registering your spouse of guest for the TXAPA 45TH Annual Meeting! Generously sponsored by Angel Brothers Enterprises, CenterPoint Energy, East Texas Asphalt, and KLP Commercial.  In a continuation of last month's topic, the Asphalt Institute's Danny Gierhart will put the PAVEXpress Design Tool to use in this webinar on conventional pavment design (one PDH).
June 18, 2019 at 10:00 AM CST
 Date: 7/16/2019
Time: 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM CDT
Location: Yoakum Community Center
105 Huck Street, Yoakum, TX 77995 Contact: Kelli Mofle
Email: kmofle@texasasphalt.org Phone: 512-312-2099 
Technically Speaking
The TxDOT Highway Letting is July 9 & 10, 2019. The TxDOT Letting Report, brought to you by Whitley & Siddons, is both emailed separately and posted to the TXAPA website around the end of each month.
 Associate Member Advisory Committee Chair Bruce Spracklen and his company TSIT Engineering & Consulting, LLC have partnered with TXAPA and M. Gentry & Associates Community Development Corporation to certify students enrolled in their Tomorrow Triumph Leadership Geotechnical Engineering and Materials Testing Summer STEM Program. Students who successfully complete the program qualify to take the SB102 Field Specialist certification test at the HMAC.
 When excavating or working around overhead utility lines, it is always important to identify all potential hazards before beginning work. The chances an incident will occur increase dramatically when you don't know what is underground or overhead. Remember, that these lines might be more than just utilities such as AT&T or Comcast and could either be electrical or gas lines. If you strike one of these types of lines, it could cause serious damage and put everybody in danger.
 Courtesy of Magdy Y. Mikhail, P.E., Section Director, Pavement Asset Management, TxDOT Maintenance Division
 Designing the right pavement for the job is about to get easier thanks to PAVEXpress, a free Web-based pavement design scoping tool for roadway and parking lot pavements. PAVEXpress — www.pavexpressdesign.com — creates technically sound pavement structural designs for flexible and rigid pavements based on widely accepted industry standards from the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
 In June, Century Asphalt and CEMEX teamed up to give TxDOT's San Antonio District a tour of an asphalt plant and quarry in New Braunfels, Texas. The tour was organized by Chuck Fuller, Industry Relations, TXAPA and Stacy Hilbrich, Technical Director, Century Asphalt to give TxDOT new hires, summer help, and engineers-in-training an inside look at plant and quarry operations.
In The Works
 The Asphalt Road-eo Student Competiton will be held Friday December 6 and Saturday December 7, 2019 at the TXAPA Campus in Buda, Texas. Once again we will be offering sponsorships for the event and holding a career fair on the competition day. Stay tuned for more details.
 TXAPA is excited to announce that this year, we will host our first ever Winter Classic Golf Tournament at La Cantera Resort and Spa in San Antonio. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the TXAPA Scholarship Program. Directly after the tournament we’ll head straight into the Membership Meeting. Our goal is to expand the Membership Meeting, offering more education and content making it a must-attend event for our members. No matter what the weather, we’re going to get together as an industry for a good cause and go out there and have fun!
Welcome New Members
 Professional Service Industries, Inc. (PSI) is a nationally recognized consulting engineering and testing firm providing integrated services in several disciplines, including geotechnical engineering, construction materials testing and engineering, facilities engineering and consulting, environmental consulting, asbestos management and industrial hygiene.
In the Know
 Did you know about PaveXpress, a scoping tool to help you create simplified pavement designs while taking into account key engineering inputs?
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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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