Aug 2023

2023 Election of Board of Directors

For 2023 the Board of Director positions to be filled include 2nd Vice President, Alberta Director, Ontario Director, and Atlantic Director. No additional nominations were received from the membership following the announcements of nominees in the July Newsletter. All nominee's bios are in the voting form; we need your vote to decide on the Ontario Director position. Voting is now open and can be accessed via the link on the right-hand side of the members portal. (The badges cycle so watch for the voting link)  

2023 CTAA Conference & AGM

Register Now – use the link in the members portal!

 

Book your room – The Prince Edward Hotel and Conference Centre is offering us a special group rate starting at $189 CAD per night for the conference. To take advantage of this offer, click here to book by  October 15th.

Active members – just log in to the member's area and click on the Charlottetown 2023 graphic to start your registration.

Lapsed Members – log in to the member's area to renew your membership and then register at the member rate. (Note – lapsed members will automatically be directed to renew their membership before having access to the member's area of the website. If you would prefer to register as a non-member (same total cost) then contact chuck@ctaa.ca to reset your membership so you can log into the non-member's area. Also – if you are locked out with a ’token expired’ error, contact the office.

Archived Members (you haven’t paid dues since at least 2021) can still log in to the member's area to be directed to the non-member's area and the registration links.

Non-Members (never a member) – contact chuck@ctaa.ca to be sent a registration link for non-members

November 19-22, 2023

Prince Edward Hotel and Conference Center

Charlottetown, PE

Future Meetings

2024 Edmonton, AB

2025 Toronto, ON

Conference Course: Master Curves - For Dummies

Sunday, November 19, 2023
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

 

Presenter: Alan Carter, Ph.D., Professor, ÉTS

Course fee of $75.00 (early-bird) in addition to Conference Registration, includes a coffee break before the session starts.

Master curves are great, they present data about asphalt stiffness at various loading times and temperatures on a single plot allowing you to see how the asphalt behaves over a wide range of conditions. The plot is stiffness versus log reduced time/frequency?? What??

How does one build a Master Curve and then how does one use it to better understand the behaviour of the materials being incorporated into their pavement project? Alan Carter will walk the class through the development and usage of the master curve to help all attendees understand the power of the Master Curve and when, how, and why it is the ideal way to present the characteristics of asphalt materials.

Dr. Alan Carter will also discuss how the Master Curve data is utilized in mechanistic pavement designs and why CTAA members should be comfortable discussing such data on a day-to-day basis.

Tentative Programs

Check the Conference App for program updates.

2023 Student Poster Competition

For the third year, a student poster competition will be held at the Conference. Undergrads and graduate students will present their work related to asphalt materials to the delegates. There will be a poster session on Monday afternoon right after the last technical presentation of the day and before the Young member's reception. The posters will also remain available for the entire conference. If you are a student, or if you know a student who wants to share his work, click the button to learn more.

2024 Call for Papers

The Canadian Technical Asphalt Association invites paper proposals (Abstracts) for the 2024 CTAA Annual Conference.

Conference App

The Association will be utilizing a conference App again at the 2023 conference.

On your phone or tablet (or even PC) the App can be accessed by registered delegates from the Conference App website.

Each attendee must then sign in using the email address provided when registering for the conference and create their own password. If you were on the App last year the system will remember your prior password, but since you may not remember, you can select ‘Forgot password’ to use the link to set up a new one. (Once logged into a device you will not need to provide all this information again).

Please update your personal profile by adding in your work affiliation, and even your photo!

When adding your photo, be sure to expand the crop box to include the portion of the photo you want to show.

Member Updates

2023 Scholarship

As announced in the July Newsetter, the 2023 Scholarship submission dates were modified to allow more students to be back in classes on the deadline (September 15).

 

If you know students whose studies are specifically related to asphalt technology, encourage them to apply!

 

Winners will be announced at the Conference in Charlottetown.

 

2023 Sustaining Members

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