Spring Summer 2010 Issue - Ontario Road Builders' Association
Spring Summer 2010 Issue - Ontario Road Builders' Association
Spring Summer 2010 Issue - Ontario Road Builders' Association
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VOLUNTEER AWARDS<br />
Magisano and Hurst<br />
Take Top Volunteer Awards<br />
ORBA members honoured<br />
their very best on February 2<br />
at a gala President’s Dinner<br />
and Awards Evening sponsored at the<br />
ORBA convention by Toromont. Two<br />
new members were inducted to the<br />
<strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>Road</strong> Building Hall of Fame<br />
(see separate article in this issue) and<br />
members received awards for safety<br />
performance and distinguished volunteer<br />
service.<br />
Magisano gets<br />
Distinguished Service award<br />
Fernando Magisano from K.J. Beamish<br />
Construction Company Ltd.<br />
received the Distinguished Service<br />
Award, which is presented annually<br />
to an ORBA member volunteer<br />
that has distinguished themselves<br />
through extraordinary service to<br />
the <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
Magisano has contributed his<br />
expertise in materials specification<br />
and testing to ORBA technical committees<br />
for many years. He has been<br />
a longtime member of the Hot Mix<br />
Asphalt Committee and instrumental<br />
in protecting the industry’s interests<br />
from the first ERS specifications,<br />
through the development of quality<br />
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Fernando Magisano<br />
control plans and more recently<br />
in the development of the QA for<br />
acceptance protocols and the move to<br />
performance specifications.<br />
He has chaired numerous technical<br />
committees dealing with issues from<br />
pavement smoothness and air voids<br />
testing to ignition ovens and low-<br />
temperature cracking. Magisano has<br />
also shared his expertise by delivering<br />
technical education and seminar sessions<br />
for ORBA and other industry<br />
associations. This year Magisano<br />
continues his service to the industry<br />
by serving as president of the <strong>Ontario</strong><br />
Hot Mix Producers <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
Hurst gets Director award<br />
Jim Hurst, vice-president of Steed<br />
& Evans Limited, was named ORBA<br />
Director of the Year – an award presented<br />
annually to the ORBA director<br />
who goes well beyond his expected<br />
responsibilities to the Board and plays<br />
a leadership role in moving the <strong>Association</strong>’s<br />
agenda forward. The Director<br />
of the Year is selected by the<br />
ORBA president.<br />
Over the past year Hurst has managed<br />
an important agenda as chair<br />
of ORBA’s Transportation Committee.<br />
He has been actively involved in<br />
promoting contractors’ interests and<br />
providing education for members in<br />
areas of changing CVOR regulation,<br />
facility audits, weights and dimensions<br />
review and many others. He has been<br />
in the transportation minister’s office<br />
looking for a compromise that con-<br />
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