52nd Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference

2/1/2012

The 52^nd annual Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference convened on Dec. 7, 2011, at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign. This year’s conference had record registrations of over 300 attendees. Participants gathered for the compact one-day program that included the latest state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice information in the area of bituminous development and practice.

BillFrey52 bit — Bill Frey presents at the 52nd Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference.

Speakers came from in state, out of state, as well as from other countries who spoke on a wide variety of engaging topics including, using high RAP, current research on durable thin overlays and warm mixes, paving on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and pavement engineering in the Netherlands. All of the speaker presentations are posted on the conference program website.

Additionally, a new segment was included into the conference this year. Special awards were presented to individuals for their contributions this past year. The awards were presented to the following people:

Leadership in Bituminous Engineering: Marshall Thompson
Bituminous Engineer: Bill Pine
Student Research: Songsu Son
Innovative Research: Zhen Leng and Pengcheng Shangguan

BituminousCommittee — *The Bituminous Award Committee strikes a pose. Committee members pictured, from left, include Steve Gillen, Tim Murphy, Dave Lippert, Marshall Thompson, who was an award recipient; and Imad Al-Qadi*

ImadAl-Qadi_presents_ award — *Imad Al-Qadi presents an award to Bill Pine.*

In addition to ICT, IDOT was a main sponsor of the conference.

Mark Your Calendar

The 53^rd annual Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference will be held on Dec. 12, 2012, at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois.