2023 Conference Program

Attendee List

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Award Winners

• Lama Abufares received the Marshall Thompson Student Research Award
• Mike Schilke received the Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association Innovative Research Award
• Malgorzata (Gosia) Adamczyk received the Barry Dempsey Bituminous Technical Contribution of the Year Award
• Tom Zehr received the Imad Al-Qadi Leadership in Bituminous Engineering Award

Workshop

IL Airport Hot-Mix Asphalt: FAA and IDOT Specifications, Mix Design, Construction, Testing and Payment
Bill Eves, Illinois Department of Transportation

IL Airport Hot-Mix Asphalt: FAA and IDOT Specifications, Mix Design, Construction, Testing and Payment
Uthman Mohamed Ali, Illinois Center for Transportation

Embodied Carbon and Environmental Product Declarations: How the Illinois Paving Industry Can Prepare for the Changing Policy Landscape
Joseph Shacat, National Asphalt Pavement Association 
Don Gallagher, Gallagher Asphalt  
James Cassem, Currant Contracting

Conference

Illinois Department of Transportation Update
IDOT Secretary Omer Osman

Federal Highway Administration Update
David Synder, FHWA

Pavement Surface Texture and Friction to Improve Highway Safety
Shane Underwood, North Carolina State University

Overlay Design for Controlling Reflective Cracking
John Senger, IDOT

Impact of Fuel, Anti-Strip, Asphalt Binder, Warm-Mix Asphalt and Fractionated Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement on EPD
Joseph Shacat, National Asphalt Pavement Association

Local Aggregate Use in Stone-Matrix Asphalt
Greg Heckel, IDOT 

Local Aggregate Use in Stone-Matrix Asphalt
Javier Garcia Mainieri, ICT/UIUC

Bituminous Materials in Military Applications
Jeb Tingle, U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development

Effect of HMA Surfaces on Rolling Resistance Emission
Imad L. Al-Qadi, UIUC Grainger Distinguished Chair & ICT Director

Sustainable Project Delivery
Dennis Bachman, FHWA  
Kelly Morse, IDOT

Continuous Density Measurements of Flexible Pavement during Construction
Lama Abufares, ICT/UIUC

IDOT HMA Technical Update
Brian Hill, IDOT

HMA Production to Placement: Best QC/QA Practice
Tim Murphy, Murphy Pavement Technology, Inc.