The Asphalt Institute has announced a number of upcoming seminars and workshops.
“Achieving Volumetrics and HMA Compactability” will be available Jan. 16-18, 2007, Feb. 6-8, 2007, and March 6-8, 2007. All three opportunities to attend the workshop will be held at the Asphalt Institute headquarters in Lexington, Ky. The three-day course teaches the Bailey Method, a tool for developing and analyzing gradation blends in the lab and field to better understand aggregate packing and its influence on mix volumetrics and compactability.
An Airport Paving Workshop will be held twice, first Nov. 14-16, 2006, in Boston and then April 3-5, 2007, in Kansas City, Mo. The workshop is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Asphalt Institute. The goal of the workshop is to provide up-to-date information for those designing, constructing and managing asphalt airport pavements. Lessons will include detailed descriptions of materials as well as pavement design, construction and preservation practices.
An Asphalt Binder Technology Course will be offered twice, first Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 2007 and then Feb. 27-March 2, 2007. Both sessions will be held at the Asphalt Institute headquarters. The course provides hands-on training modeled after the Asphalt Institute’s Superpave laboratory training courses that were developed as part of the Federal Highway Administration’s National Asphalt Training Center (NATC) contract.
Finally, an HMA Mix Design Technologies Course will be held Jan. 8-12, 2007, and Feb. 19-23, 2007, at the AI headquarters in Lexington, Ky. The four-day course will cover Superpave, Marshall, SMA, OGFC and RAP utilization in HMA. Attendees will learn about asphalt and aggregate material selection and how they affect mixture properties.