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2009 Minnesota Pavement Conference

February 12, 2009
Continuing Education and Conference Center
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota

Speakers at this 13th Annual Minnesota Pavement Conference shared their innovative ideas to help meet today’s transportation challenges. Topics included transportation investment strategies, risk analysis, and trends in the concrete and asphalt industries.

TERRA serves as sponsor for this one-day conference, which provides information to practitioners and others in pavement design, construction, and maintenance. The emphasis of the conference is new materials and methods that can assist decision makers in providing the most cost-effective strategies for building, repairing, and maintaining Minnesota roads.

Featured Video

2009 Pavement Conference–selected presentations

  • View presentations (slides included) (Mediasite Presenter, Length: 02:55:28, Microsoft Silverlight plugin required)
    1. TPF Intelligent Compaction Project—Overview and Recent Findings
      Chapter 1 (00:00)
      George Chang, Transtec Group
    2. Linking Earthwork Construction to Pavement Design Through Intelligent Compaction
      Chapter 2 (35:32)
      David White, Iowa State University
    3. Intelligent Compaction: Olmsted County’s Experience and Lessons Learned, including HMA IC
      Chapter 3 (01:11:04)
      Rebecca Embacher, Minnesota Department of Transportation
      Mike Sheehan, Olmsted County
    4. Asphalt Supply in a Volatile World
      Chapter 4 (01:35:52)
      Clint Rybak, ConocoPhillips
    5. Sustainability Through People, Process, and Product Innovation
      Chapter 5 (02:11:23)
      Jean-Claude Roumain, Holcim, (US) Inc.

Event Presentations

  • Building Success and Avoiding Surprises: The Use of Risk Analysis and Decision Making
    Khalid Bekka, HDR|Decision Economics
    View presentation (2.79 MB PDF)

  • Statewide Transportation Plan 2009-2028
    Tim Henkel, Minnesota Department of Transportation
    View presentation (1.24 MB PDF)

  • Infrastructure Challenges for 2010 Winter Olympics: Sea to Sky Highway British Columbia
    David Hein, Applied Research Associates, Inc.
    View presentation (621 KB PDF)

  • Mn/DOT’s County Highway Pavement Testing Program
    Dave Janisch, Minnesota Department of Transportation
    View presentation (3.02 MB PDF)

  • Alternate Bid Pavement Type Selection
    Curt Turgeon, Minnesota Department of Transportation
    View presentation (1.17 MB PDF)

  • Foamed Asphalt Road Rehabilitation
    John Grindeland, Fillmore County
    Andy Eller, Mn/DOT
    View presentation (1.31 MB PDF)

  • Sweden's Innovative Contracting Practices and the Use of Performance Specifications
    Mats Wendel, Swedish Road Administration
    View presentation (956 KB PDF)

  • Thin Unbonded Concrete Overlays in Minnesota
    Mark Watson, Minnesota Department of Transportation
    View presentation (731 KB PDF)
    View handout (86 KB PDF)

  • TPF Intelligent Compaction Project—Overview and Recent Findings
    George Chang, Transtec Group
    View presentation (2.39 MB PDF)

  • Ethanol Co-Products and Bio Oil
    Chris Williams, Iowa State University
    View presentation (621 KB PDF)

  • Linking Earthwork Construction to Pavement Design Through Intelligent Compaction
    David White, Iowa State University
    View presentation (27 MB PDF)

  • The Payback of Green
    Tom Kazmierowski, Ministry of Transportation Ontario
    View presentation (1.74 MB PDF)

  • Intelligent Compaction: Olmsted County’s Experience and Lessons Learned, including HMA IC
    Rebecca Embacher, Minnesota Department of Transportation
    Mike Sheehan, Olmsted County
    View presentation (1.85 MB PDF)

  • Warm Mix Asphalt at MnROAD
    Tim Clyne, Minnesota Department of Transportation
    View presentation (764 KB PDF)

  • Asphalt Supply in a Volatile World
    Clint Rybak, ConocoPhillips
    View presentation (1.21 MB PDF)

  • Sustainability Through People, Process, and Product Innovation
    Jean-Claude Roumain, Holcim, (US) Inc.
    View presentation (5.05 MB PDF)

More Information

For more information about this or other TERRA events, please contact Stephanie Malinoff, malinoff@cts.umn.edu, 612-624-8398.