ASPHALTopics | Spring 2014 | VOL 27 | NO 1

AWARDS
From left to right: John Blake (Immediate ORBA Past President),
Tom O’Callaghan (Fowler), Deputy Minister of Transportation Carol Layton,
Gilles Truchon (Fowler), Tim Fawcett (Fowler), John McBride (Fowler).
Colin Burpee (left) and Lyle Moran
Paver of the Year Award
The Ontario Road Builders Association (ORBA)
recently announced the Paver of the Year Award
which is presented annually by the Ontario Ministry
of Transportation. The award recognizes excellence
in hot mix paving on a project completed in the
award year. Projects are judged on criteria such
as smoothness, night paving, competition,
workmanship and mix quality, among others.
For 2013, the honour goes to Fowler Construction
Company Ltd. for its project on Highway 60 in
Algonquin Park. Other finalists in this category were
Aecon Materials, Miller Group, and Pioneer Construction.
Tim Fawcett, Divisional Manager of Fowler Construction,
reacted with great pride upon hearing the news which
he had received just a short time before speaking to
Asphaltopics. “This is great; we were really pleased
to hear this,” Fowler said. “Highway 60 was a great
project for us and a lot of people deserve the credit
for a job that was well done.”
Dr. Norman McLeod Award
For 2013, OHMPA presented the Dr. Norman McLeod
Award for Innovation in Road Building. The purpose
of this award is to celebrate and recognize the pursuit
of innovation in the hot mix asphalt industry.
The winner of the award, Lyle Moran, Asphalt Team Leader
for Imperial Oil Sarnia Research Centre, was honoured for
his more than three decades of dedication to the industry
which, through his commitment to the science of asphalt
research, led to industry breakthroughs as recognized
by 12 patents. Recently retired, Moran spent most of his
career in asphalt research and development and technical
marketing services.
It’s an understatement to say that asphalt has played
a significant part of Moran’s life and he has grown to
appreciate so many aspects of it. “The beauty of asphalt
research is that you are involved with the whole gamut,
from the crude coming out of the ground, to the customer
in the field,” he recently commented. “So we are studying
both product and process development.”
Moran’s impact on the asphalt industry in North America
has been significant and will be long lasting.
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