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Paving the way with frien The Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA) with Amy Miller, National Director Can you give us a brief history on the origin of your organization? The Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA) was started in 2000 by the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), the Asphalt Institute (AI) and the State Asphalt Pavement Associations (SAPA). Initially, the Alliance was a volunteer organization, but as it grew it was staffed with full-time employees. The goal of the Alliance was to have an organized means to combine resources and focus on initiatives that are common to the three major asphalt associations. Can you report on changes to your organization and how they are working? A primary focus of the APA is to deploy research material developed by the Pavement Economics Committee (PEC), which is supported by NAPA and SAPA, as well as marketing material developed by the Go To Market committee, which is solely supported by NAPA. Technical reports are transferred to the Go To Market, and the committee finesses the material so that it can be used by industry. The deployment work of APA is very important to ensure that this information gets out to the audience to which it was intended. The APA deploys this material both nationally and regionally. The regional approach is the newest change to the APA. We hired a regional director, Dan Stabell, who is responsible for the northcentral region. In July 2016, he conducted the first major regional meeting in the Northcentral region. The APA deployment team has also held meetings in the Northeast and Southeast regions. These meetings have been instrumental in discussing efforts related to regional issues and developing initiatives that allow focused deployment of strategic information. Eventually, we plan to have regional directors for all five regions – Northeast, Southeast, Northcentral, Rocky Mountains and Western. Each region has a council that is made up of state asphalt executives, NAPA staff and membership, and Asphalt Institute staff and membership. The goal of this council is to establish needed directives that will incorporate current PEC deliverables as well as establish regional directives handled by the council. An annual review of our work in these regions will ensure that we are deploying the needed information, that we’re staying on target and that our initiatives are being completed. What are you currently working on? We have an overseeing committee that puts a stamp of approval on the initiatives of the deployment of the APA. Right now, we are focused on deploying materials that are related to Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA). Also, we are reminding operators not to overlook the opportunities that exist with the commercial market. This would include anything that is not a Department of Transportation project, such as parking lots. Traditionally, the asphalt industry has not focused on the commercial market. The competition, however, is making inroads here, so as an industry we are stepping up efforts. We’re also pushing for the implementation of PaveExpress, which is a free online software to design rigid and flexible pavements (www. pavexpressdesign.com). This is a deliverable of the PEC that has been very successful. This web-based software tool continues to draw attention from designers and engineers around the world. Enhancements continue to be added to the software, which improves the efficiency and accuracy of pavement design for more robust pavements. The APA is also responsible for the National Perpetual Pavement Award. The Alliance first defined perpetual pavements in 2000 and established the Perpetual Pavement Award in 2001. Since then, 118 pavements in <strong>30</strong> U.S. states and one Canadian province have been honoured with the award. Recipients are state transportation departments and local agency road owners who have wellperforming asphalt pavements that are at least 35 years old. Winners of the 2016 Perpetual Pavement Award included 10 departments of transportation. APA continues to represent the asphalt industry at various trade shows, including events put on by the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC) and large national trade shows. Participation in these forums increases awareness about APA and the issues that are current and relevant to the asphalt industry.
ds across borders by Lisa Fattori With various asphalt-related organizations around the world, a wealth of information is at hand that can benefit individual contractors and companies in the industry. Sharing new best practices, innovations in technology, better safety standards and new practices and procedures raises the bar at both the local and national level. By learning from one another, the asphalt industry can continue to be a leader in providing stakeholders with value and quality, and to be the preferred choice for construction projects. Asphaltopics reached out to two professionals who are spearheading exciting initiatives within their organizations – Siobhan McKelvey, President of Eurobitume and Amy Miller, National Director of the Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA), who offer insight into the progressive work and goals of their respective associations. What’s a hot topic for your organization? Right now, LCCA is a very hot topic. The competition is driving the use of LCCA at local, state and federal levels, and the asphalt industry needs to be more active in informing agencies about all of the factors that go into the calculation of an accurate analysis. We are not opposed to LCCA usage in pavement type selection, because there is long-term value with the use of asphalt that can be shown with proper life cycle cost analysis. However, we have seen cases where decision makers were required to use LCCA, and were uninformed. We feel it is important to relay the facts and accurate data to decision makers. Inputs, such as the initial cost of a pavement, time to repair, user delay costs and others must all be considered. This can be a lot of information for someone to absorb. The proper inputs have to go into the LCCA to make a pavement decision, and we feel that part of our job should be to present factual information. At the end of life of a perpetual pavement, for example, there is structural integrity left; there is some inherent value there which is not typically identified in the LCCA process. International Roughness Index values also don’t come into play with this decision, but it is important to the end user. We want to make sure that people have the necessary information to make good sound decisions on behalf of taxpayers. Eurobitume with Siobhan McKelvey, President Can you provide us with a brief history on the origin of your organization? The European Bitumen Association, or Eurobitume (EB) for short, was established in 1969, with five national bitumen associations – ARBIT (Germany), CIB/ICB (Belgium), ESPAS (Spain), GPB (France) and RBA (UK) – making up the founding members. Several European Petroleum Companies became members during the next years. Benelux (made up of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) was added in 2007 as a Local Initiative and replaced Benelux Bitume (Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg). Switzerland joined in 2010 as a Local Initiative. Can you report on the amalgamation across Europe and how it’s working? In June, 2015, members implemented a project that integrated the three national associations in Germany (ARBIT), France (GPB) and the UK (RBA), within the overall operating umbrella of Eurobitume. As a result, we now have Eurobitume UK since January 2015; Eurobitume France since September 2015; and Eurobitume Deutschland since January 2016. These add to the existing Eurobitume Benelux and Eurobitume Switzerland. There were a number of key drivers behind this change, including the need to streamline our activities, develop one voice and increase the profile/brand of EB, develop and benefit from synergies, and increase accessibility across Europe to experts in our industry. We needed the organization to be able to adapt and respond to changes and challenges within the bitumen industry, and to expectations from important stakeholders. By building a stronger organization, we could increase our influence and be the single point of contact for bitumen issues in Europe. To support our goals and to act with a stronger voice in Europe, our members decided in 2015 that we needed to expand the scope of our membership. Traditionally, EB members were only bitumen producers with refineries. The new membership now allows for an additional category of Associate Members, such as haulers, equipment suppliers, testing services organizations and academic institutions. What are you currently working on? The necessary first step of our strategy was to build a stronger organization and a new structure of our association. The next step is to review our Vision and Mission and to assess what type of structure the organization should have to meet the needs of the future. We will be identifying the building blocks required to achieve this in the coming years. In the second half of <strong>2017</strong>, a task force within Eurobitume will examine this process, and plans to have some proposals drafted to share with members by the end of the year. In the meantime, we will continue to develop the General Meetings that we hold in the ››
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