2024 Election of Board of Directors
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For 2024 the Board of Director positions to be filled include 2nd Vice President, BC Director, Prairies Director, and Quebec 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 Quebec Director position and 2nd Vice President. 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)
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2024 CTAA Conference & AGM
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Register Now – use the link in the members portal!
Book your room – The JW Marriott is offering us a special group rate starting at $239 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 Edmonton 2024 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.
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Archived Members (you haven’t paid dues since at least 2022) 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 admin@ctaa.ca to be sent a registration link for non-members.
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November 10-13, 2024
JW Marriott Hotel
Edmonton, AB
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Conference Course: Enhancing Pavement Structural Design Using Cold Recycled Materials
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Sunday, November 10, 2024
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Presenter: Leila Hashamian, Ph.D., Professor, University of Alberta
Course fee of $75.00 (early-bird) in addition to Conference Registration, includes a coffee break before the session starts.
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In this course participants will gain insights into the concept of cold recycling in pavement engineering and review materials and processes of cold recycling. Through a review of case studies, participants will discuss benefits and limitations and factors that influence the selection of materials and design parameters.
Key considerations for designing resilient and sustainable cold recycled pavements and design challenges will be reviewed as will strategies to overcome such challenges. The course will include specific discussion on environmental benefits and reducing the overall carbon footprint of cold recycling compared to more traditional methods,
The course will also encourage the exchange of experiences of attendees and innovative and emerging technologies in the field of cold recycling.
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For the fourth 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 access the submission page.
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The Canadian Technical Asphalt Association invites paper proposals (Abstracts) for the 2024 CTAA Annual Conference.
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The Association will be utilizing a conference App again at the 2024 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.
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As announced in the July Newsletter, the 2024 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 Edmonton.
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The Apply link is located at the bottom of the Web Scholarship information page
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