A Letter from ISSA President Dave Welborn

Greetings from your ISSA Board of Directors!

The Board and I would like to express our gratitude to you for your continued support of the International Slurry Surfacing Association (ISSA) and Pavement Preservation & Recycling Alliance (PPRA). As a member, I trust you have been able to strengthen your industry network, tap into the training and educational resources, and benefit from the advocacy and promotional efforts your association provides for our industry.  It is only through the collective support and participation of our member organizations that we are able to live out our mission:

The International Slurry Surfacing Association is the leading resource for promotion, training, education and best practices of our pavement preservation technologies.

This mission is the foundation for our strategic plan and the activities and resource allocations we undertake. As a stakeholder in the Association, you need to be aware of some key ongoing initiatives and some we have completed or have on the horizon. They include:

• The Slurry Systems Workshop continues to be the premiere training event for our technologies and will be held at Place Station Resort & Casino in January. The popular Hands-On Day agenda is expanding to include Crack Seal with the Slurry /Micro Surfacing activities for the participants. The National Center for Pavement Preservation will again be administering certification exams for the covered treatments.
• We continue to provide content for the FHWA/PPRA Webinar series along with ARRA and AEMA, reaching hundreds of people on different pavement preservation topics.
• ISSA is working with FHWA and Arkansas DOT to develop a new Web Based Training Module on Combination Treatments and update the existing modules.
• ISSA manned our booth at the PWX 2023 in San Diego, CA in August and at the National Pavement Preservation Conference in Indianapolis, IN in September, promoting the value of our association and treatments to attendees.
• A new mobile app has been developed for the Design & Inspection Manual and will be launched in the coming months for ISSA Members. The app is searchable and puts this valuable resource on a phone or tablet, where it can have the greatest accessibility and impact for those who need it.
• ISSA partnered with AEMA and ARRA to develop the RoadResource.org website, which has proven to be a valuable training and promotional tool for the pavement preservation industry. We continue to provide direction to make it an even more effective tool for our members to use to maximize their preservation portfolio for road networks.
• ISSA is moving forward with our commitment to sustainability and are taking steps that will enable us to develop industry average Life Cycle Assessment’s (LCAs) for the treatments we represent. This is a critical first step toward developing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) which may be required by certain agencies in the future.

These are just some of the items your Board has been working on over the past year. We will be meeting next year to establish new strategies and goals and welcome your input and involvement as we continue to grow our association and our impact on the industry.

As always, thank you so much for your commitment to our industry. We look forward to another great year together!

Sincerely,

Dave Welborn

ISSA President