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Meet Vince by Abigail Wright Pereira Vince at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville with his daughter Amanda in the spring 2015. EDUCATION University of Toronto B.A.Sc. (Civil Engineering) 1982 EXPERIENCE 1982-84 Chih S Huang and Associates, Geotechnical Engineer 1985-88 Peto McCallum, Project Engineer 1990-94 MTO, Senior Bituminous Engineer 1994-95 JEGEL, Senior Pavement and Materials Engineer 1995-97 Advanced Asphalt Technologies, Director of Technical Services 1997-99 Golder Associates, Senior Materials Engineer 1999-2005 OHMPA/Asphalt Institute, Technical Director 2005-08 Bitumar Inc., Ontario Asphalt Sales Manager 2008-15 DBA Engineering Ltd., Manager of Pavement Engineering Services 2015 - OHMPA, Executive Director PERSONAL Married with four children aged 18-25 Over a decade and a half has passed since the first “Meet Vince Aurlio” article graced the inside pages of Asphaltopics. It was the summer of 1999 when Vince came to OHMPA as its first technical director. That summer the Toronto Blue Jays were hot, finishing third in the American League East Division, and the hot button issue of the hot mix asphalt industry as cited by Vince was building quality pavements that last. Fast forward 16 years, the Blue Jays are even hotter, and according to Vince the challenges facing the industry remain the same. For over thirty years Vince has been a tremendous supporter of and contributor to the road building community. I sat down with Vince to talk about what he is looking forward to as he takes to the helm of the association as Executive Director and to also tell a bit about himself. What influenced you as a young person to become interested in engineering? A: Starting at the age of 10, I would spend summers back in my parents’ home town of Vitulazio, Italy, which is about 35 kilometers north of Naples. In between summer school math and Italian classes, I worked on my uncle’s farm picking grapes to produce the family wine for the year and threading tobacco leaves for air-curing. Just behind the town there were several small hills that were being mined for limestone; at five o’clock each day the alarms would sound to signal the start of blasting operations. Watching the operations at the quarry piqued my interest in learning about geology and how things work. Additionally, I think a combination of having a diverse education, learning a good work ethic at an early age, and just enjoying taking things apart and putting them back together again set me on the course to study geotechnical engineering. Q: As you started your career, what led you to the asphalt industry? A: Early in my career I was a project engineer with Peto McCallum (PML). At first they wanted me to work on concrete projects, but to me concrete was not as exciting as hot mix asphalt. There were not a lot of applications when it came to building roads, and working with asphalt provided me with more opportunities. Early on I had the opportunity to work on some prominent asphalt jobs where I did forensics. I was fortunate to work with several good people, including Phillip Sun (PML) from whom I learned a great deal about engineering materials and properly building a road from the ground up. After that I was hooked and continued to focus my career on improving asphalt pavements. Q: Prior to becoming OHMPA’s first Technical Director in 1999, when did you first become involved with OHMPA? A: I first became involved with OHMPA in 1997 when I came back from working in the U.S. to work for Golder Associates. Teri McKibbon (1998 OHMPA President) invited me to speak about Superpave and Performance Grade Asphalt Cement (PGAC) implementation at the Fall Asphalt Seminar.
Aurilio... again Shortly afterward I joined the Technical Committee and the PGAC Implementation Committee and the rest is history. Q: What is one of your top priorities as you step into the position as OHMPA’s Executive Director? A: I am very excited to have this opportunity and am honoured to be in this position. Having been involved in many facets of OHMPA throughout the years, I have a solid background of the workings of the association. One of my main priorities is to build and maintain a strong relationship and partnership based on trust, communication and mutual respect with municipal and provincial owner agencies. I plan to lead by example to foster a solid foundation to work co-operatively with our stakeholders moving forward. Q: Over your 30 year career in the asphalt industry, what do you see as OHMPA’s most significant contributions? A: OHMPA has been dedicated to advancing and making technologies work for the continuous improvement of asphalt pavements. OHMPA does not back down from innovation. The implementation of End Result Specifications (ERS), incorporation of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP), using material transfer vehicles, and implementation of Superpave and Stone Mastic Asphalt (SMA) are all incredible advancements in asphalt paving that OHMPA helped bring to fruition in Ontario. Q: Back in the 1999 summer edition of Asphaltopics you mentioned that you play the guitar and had a stint as a professional musician before family life took over. Can you elaborate and tell us more about the band? A: Well, I still pick up the guitar now and then and have a collection of about 15 guitars. As for the band, all I am going to say is that we were an early 1980s wedding band. That’s all. Q: Also back in 1999 you said that one of your hobbies included playing golf badly. Has your game improved since then? A: Let’s not talk about golf. Supplying Testing Equipment Since 1946 Vancouver (604) 872-7894 Burlington (905) 333-5510 Montreal (514) 735-5267 www.hoskin.ca Gyratory Compactor Slab Compactor Hamburg Double Wheel Tracker FALL 2015 35
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