2020 CTAA Conference & AGM

The 65th Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting was planned to be held in Kelowna British Columbia with the program running from Sunday, November 15 to Wednesday, November 18, 2020.

THEN ALONG CAME COVID-19 !

As you may have seen on the conference page, the Association’s Board of Directors and the Local Arrangements Committee has been looking at the COVID situation and how it will affect the conference. At this point it seems the conference will be held not in Kelowna but in the comfort of your own office. We are currently working diligently to assure that the virtual meeting will be able to professionally deliver online speakers’ presentations and allow for Q&A following presentations.

To this end we are currently working with EventMobi (the same vendor who has provided our conference App platform since 2016) to have the technology in place to provide attendees a great experience, and to meet our goal of disseminating technical information and hopefully have some fun doing it.

The technical course this year will Quality Assurance for paving projects and will be presented by Gerry Huber of Heritage Research.

The CTAA pre-conference workshop will include Regional Reports from the Directors on Green Initiatives across the country and will be followed up with Advances in Asphalt Technology related to the state of practice on Performance Testing.

The Contractors’ Workshop, expected to be held in its usual spot on Tuesday afternoon, will focus on In-Place recycling. This year’s technical program, as always, promises to deliver interesting and varied content. Abstracts of all the papers to be presented are included on the web site.

We are even looking at how to hold some social activities to allow the networking that is such an important part of the conference experience. How that will be accomplished remains to be seen but we are excited that there will be some valuable networking opportunities.

The Annual General Meeting will be held prior to the start of technical sessions.

A couple key questions to be addressed about a virtual conference are how many hours a day can participants remain engaged (we are thinking not more than about 4 hours), and how many days or weeks should the conference be spread over? Use this link to give your opinion via a short survey.

2021 Charlottetown, PEI

Inspecting Hot Mix Asphalt for Performance

Presenter:
Gerry Huber, Heritage Research Group

Course fee of $45.00 (early-bird) is in addition to Conference Registration

This course is focused on the construction and inspection of HMA pavements, with specific focus on the influence of the design and material properties.

In accordance with By-Law No. 1, Section 5.02 the Nominating Committee, appointed by the Board of Directors following the 2019 Annual General Meeting, has proposed the following list of candidates for election to the Board of Directors for 2020-2021:

2nd Vice President
Veronique Szabo

British Columbia Director
John Laxdal

Prairies Director
Chris Campbell

Quebec Director
Roxana Balba

The current Directors for Alberta, Ontario, and Atlantic Regions are Richard Hart, Selena Lavorato, and Brandon MacDonald, respectively. If you are able and willing to serve on the CTAA Board of Directors for the two-year term from November 2020 to 2022 you can nominate yourself or any member in good standing who resides in the region open for election. In accordance with By-Law No. 1, Section 5.04, additional nominations are made by petition to the Board of Directors endorsed by at least ten Association members in good standing and must be made within thirty days of the mailing/posting of this Newsletter.

Nominations are made via the members area of the website—look for the badge with link on the right side of the page.

Balloting will be done electronically on-line and notifications will be provided via email in August. Anyone wishing/requiring a paper ballot will need to contact the office to be provided that alternate voting opportunity at that time.

The Canadian Technical Asphalt Association is proud to offer three scholarships for students pursuing careers in Asphalt technology. Application information are sent to over 50 universities and colleges in the Spring each year.

For this year’s scholarships we had 37 submissions. Evaluation of the submissions is underway now and results will be published in the August Newsletter.

Information regarding our scholarships, eligibility and the application process can be viewed on our website.

Members are asked to pass this information on to students they know or meet who are studying asphalt technology at the graduate, undergraduate or college level.

Dr. Ralph C.G. Haas passed away suddenly on Friday, June 19, 2020, leaving an extensive community of colleagues, friends, and family in mourning.

Dr. Haas was Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo, a member of the Order of Canada, the Royal Society of Canada, the Engineering Institute of Canada and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, among many other honours and distinctions he earned throughout his life.

2020 Sustaining Members

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