ISSA Conducts Regional Workshops in Conjunction with Pavement Preservation Partnership Meetings

	ISSA Vice President Larry Tomkins, Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, presents information on Chip Seal Best Practices to attendees at the ISSA Workshop held in collaboration with the Midwestern Pavement Preservation Partnership Annual Meeting.
ISSA Past President W. Pierre Peltier,  Strawser Construction, Inc., provides additional information on Chip Seals at the MPPP/ISSA Workshop.

Beginning with the Midwestern Pavement Preservation Partnership (MPPP) held earlier this week, the International Slurry Surfacing Association (ISSA) will be conducting mini regional workshops on ISSA treatments at each of the four AASHTO/TSP2-sponsored Pavement Preservation Partnership Annual Meetings. 

According to ISSA Vice President Larry Tomkins, Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc.:

“These additional trainings are part of our strategic plan to reach more agency people. … Each workshop will be 4 hours long and will be interactive in nature.  We are looking to provide the same training we present out at the larger Slurry Systems Workshop every January.  We realized that many agencies cannot make it out to Nevada or can only send 1 or 2 people to the workshop.  These new regional workshops allow us to reach more people within each DOT in that region and also some local agencies that we would not normally reach.”

The MPPP workshop, conducted on September 25 in Springfield, IL, focused on Chip Seal.  Over the course of the 4-hour workshop, approximately 20 participants were provided an overview of the Chip Seal process, learning the different types of chip seals (single, double, and triple) and the benefits provided by a chip seal.  Presenters Tomkins and W. Pierre Peltier, Strawser Construction, Inc. also shared detailed information on the best practices in Chip Seal, including site selection, materials selection and testing, system design, pavement preservation preparation, equipment best practices, and quality assurance and control.

The audience, consisting primarily of agency personnel, included participants from the Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, North Dakota, Minnesota, and South Dakota departments of transportations, as well as the Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways & Infrastructure, Manitoba Infrastructure, the cities of Springfield, Bloomington, and Sullivan, IL, and representatives from industry including Tri-State Asphalt, LLC, Asphalt Materials, Inc., and Bacon Farmer Workman Engineering & Testing Inc.

ISSA will next present a workshop on Crack Seal at the Rocky Mountain West Pavement Preservation Partnership Annual Meeting in Park City, Utah on October 28-30.  Future ISSA workshops will be held at the 2020 Northeast and 2020 Southeastern Pavement Preservation Partnership Annual Meetings.