Learning objectives for each webinar are included below.

2026

Preservation, Repair, and Rehabilitation of Concrete Pavements

• Explain the concept of concrete pavement preservation and its benefits.
• Understand the use and purpose of different concrete pavement preservation treatments.
• Describe the importance of timing in the performance of preservation treatments.

Non-Destructive Test Methods Used in Concrete Pavement Construction

• Gain an understanding of nondestructive testing (NDT) technologies for concrete pavement construction.
• Better understand capabilities, shortfalls, and appropriate usage for quality assurance (QA) for key NDT technologies.
• Learn about innovation implementation strategies to improve the quality, safety, asset management/performance, and to reduce costs.

General Aviation Airport Concrete Overlays

• Gain an understanding of the benefits of concrete overlays as a rehabilitation or reconstruction method for airfield pavement at general aviation airports.
• Learn about successful concrete overlays projects at airports nationwide with examples of projects and long-term performance. Learn the requirements & purpose of completing an ADA Transition Plan.
• Achieve an understanding the FAA policies and standards for rehabilitation and reconstruction of airfield pavement as they relate to concrete overlays.
• Recognize how a concrete overlay can be considered as an effective alternative when comparing to other rehabilitation and reconstruction methods.

Revisiting (Early Opening) Strengths for Pavement. What Do You Need, and How Do You Measure It?

• Gain an understanding of contractors’ and agencies’ perspective on early opening strengths.
• Appreciate how the state of practice varies across the US.
• Describe the basics of the maturity concept.
• Advantages to both agency and contractor associated with use of maturity method.

Best Practices for Paving in Extreme Temperatures – Hot and Cold Weather Paving

• Identify the key challenges associated with concrete paving in hot and cold weather conditions.
• Apply best practices for batching, placing, and curing in extreme temperatures.
• Recognize how environmental factors affect setting time, strength development, and surface quality.

Back to Basics: Jointing Concrete Pavements

• Identify the different types of joints used for concrete pavements.
• Utilize step-by-step methods to develop a joint layout for intersections or roundabouts.
• Determine what needs to be done with a dead-end joint.
• Identify different design methods for concrete roundabouts.
• Understand the factors that impact the sawing window for concrete pavements.

2025

Not Your Grandfather’s Concrete

• Discuss the requirements that should be in a specification for slipform pavement concrete.
• Describe how mixtures can be proportioned to be constructible while compliant with the specification.
• Adjust mixtures in the field at accommodate changes in materials and the weather.

Pavement Design for Designers & Non-Designers and Why You Should Care

• Gain an understanding of how concrete pavement design optimization can make concrete competitive for most all applications.
• Learn the basics of concrete pavement and overlay design, and why both designers and non-designers should care about these designs and the optimization process.
• Achieve an in-depth understanding of strategies to effectively optimize designs for both performance and cost.

Accelerated Delivery of Concrete Paving Projects

• How to create an efficient project delivery process.
• Techniques for accelerated concrete pavement construction.
• Learn the origins of developing simplified plans sets.
• Review real life projects utilizing simplified plan sets.

Admixtures for Modern Paving Concrete

• Understand the types and functions of concrete admixtures.
• Learn how to tailor admixture use to specific project needs.
• Discover best practices for mix design, testing, and field application.
• Explore innovations shaping the future of concrete technology.

Authority of the Engineer

• What contractor ‘rights’ and ‘obligations’ in public construction can only be addressed by the ‘Engineer’?
• What are the ‘consequences’ if a contractor fails to address such matters to the Engineer?
• What means may be available to a contractor to ‘overcome such a failure?’

Improving Airfield Concrete Pavements through ACPTP

• Understand the need and history of the Industry led FAA funded Airport Concrete Pavement Technology Program Authorized under the 2018 FAA Reauthroization Bill.
• Gain an in-depth knowledge of the research drivers that led to the need for program.
• Understand the intended results for each project underway in the program and how it may impact airfield pavement design guidance and pavement performance.
• Understand future research needs and technology transfer opportunities available to the concrete pavement design and construction communities.

Best Practices for Concrete Pavement Construction QC and Process Control

• Learn the benefits that both agencies and contractors can achieve through comprehensive, effective QC.
• Identify the key components of a QC Plan.
• Identify resources available to help develop and implement the appropriate processes and procedures to meet agency QC requirements.
• Identify common challenges affecting materials, mixtures, and pavement quality, and describe tools and guidance for mitigating these issues.

Navigating the 2023 PROWAG Final Rule: ADA Compliance in Concrete Construction and Work Zones

• Identify key updates in the 2023 PROWAG Final Rule and their implications for ADA compliance.
• Recognize common challenges and best practices in applying ADA standards to concrete construction and work zones.
• Understand MUTCD requirements for maintaining pedestrian access during construction and why accessibility matters in temporary traffic control.
• Apply best practices for integrating accessibility considerations into project design and work zone planning.

2024

A Fresh Look at Concrete Pavement for Local Agencies

• Gain a better understanding of the key benefits of concrete pavements, including nine factors that contribute value to sustainable pavement programs.
• Understand common project challenges and how concrete pavements can overcome them.
• Learn best practices for implementing concrete pavements.
• Learn what resources are available to help you with this topic.

Concrete Overlay Repair and Replacement Strategies

• Gain a better understanding of how to apply common repair and preservation strategies to extend existing overlay life.
• Learn the strategies and options for removing and replacing concrete overlays when they reach their end of life.
• Learn what resources are available to help you with this topic.

Profile Measurement and Pavement Surface Research at ICART

• Explore the current research activities at ICART.
• Discover the capabilities of the upgrade Benchmark Profiler and Urban Low-Speed Profiler.
• Consider other possibilities of pavement surface properties research at ICART.

e-Compaction Tools for Increasing Performance of Concrete Foundations

• Improve quality through automated eCompaction reporting.
• Increase efficiency in communicating results to ensure the entire project team is involved with the e-Compaction workflow.
• Identify and isolate poor compaction conditions so corrective action can be taken immediately to keep the project on schedule and within budget.

Quantification of Global Warming Impacts Using a Project-level Construction Work Zone Framework

• Gain a better understanding of vehicle fuel use and environmental impacts during different CWZ scenarios from a life cycle perspective.
• Learn how to quantify the environmental impacts from different CWZ scenarios.
• Explore how to choose traffic closure strategies using a decision-support framework to decrease Global Warming Impact (GWI).

Estimating Opening Strength for Concrete Pavement Using Maturity

• Understand the principles behind the maturity method for determining opening strength for concrete pavements.
• Learn how use of the maturity method and improved specifications for opening strength can expedite project completion.
• Receive a quick demonstration on how to use a spreadsheet to build a maturity curve.
• Review case studies from around the US on how agencies and contractors have successfully deployed the maturity method.

Dowels – Best Practices and Specifications

• Be able to describe several ways that current typical (epoxy-coated solid steel) dowel load transfer systems can be made more sustainable.
• Describe concepts for determining “equivalent structural design” of alternative load transfer systems.
• Understand the value of new specifications for evaluating the structural behavior and potential durability of candidate dowel load transfer systems.

Jointing Roundabouts and Other Intersections

• Understand the key principles for jointing concrete pavements.
• Utilize the 6-step method to develop a joint layout for concrete roundabouts.
• Identify how maintenance of traffic, staging, and phasing during construction can impact a joint layout.
• Explore similar approaches to produce a jointing plan for concrete pavements on a variety of other types of intersections.

Reducing the Cradle-to-Gate Embodied Carbon Content of Paving Concrete – A New Guide

• Gain a better understanding of why lower embodied carbon concrete is of such interest among the concrete pavement stakeholders.
• Learn strategies that can be used to reduce the embodied carbon in paving concrete.
• Understand the use of environmental product declarations (EPDs) in benchmarking and measuring improvement.

2023

Reducing the Cradle-to-Gate Embodied Carbon Content of Paving Grade Concrete – A New Guide

• Gain a better understanding of why lower embodied carbon concrete is of such interest among the concrete pavement stakeholders.
• Learn strategies that can be used to reduce the embodied carbon in paving concrete.
• Understand the use of environmental product declarations (EPDs) in benchmarking and measuring improvement.

Cold Weather Concrete

• Identify the key factors for concrete strength development and how they are impacted by declining temperatures.
• Understand the relationships of in-place strength to test samples.
• Determine appropriate decision-making for cold weather concrete plans based on severity of climate expectations.

Smooth Concrete Pavements: How to build them and why they are important

• Describe what design features impact smoothness.
• Explain whether well designed and well-constructed concrete pavements change in roughness over time.
• Discuss the relationship between faulting and pavement thickness.
• Describe effective preservation to extend the life of concrete pavements.
• Explain the impact of curl and warp on long term performance.

Performance Cements

• Gain a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities cement producers are facing to achieve carbon reduction goals.
• Learn the opportunities performance-based cement standards present for sustainable cement products through explanation of MnRoad Case Study.
• Understand how cement producers will approach the manufacturing of performance-based cement to ensure product quality is maintained.

Soil Stabilization Methods

• List the four types of soil-cement products used to construct pavements.
• Identify the different types of additives used in soil stabilization.
• Outline the thickness/mixture design procedures for soil improvement.
• Explain general mixed-in-place construction and testing procedures.

Life Cycle Cost Analysis

• Gain a better understanding of Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) and why it is used.
• Learn about the inputs necessary to conduct an LCCA.
• Achieve an in-depth understanding of the best practices for developing an LCCA that is meaningful, reliable, and defensible.

Concrete Pavement Preservation

• Explain the concept of concrete pavement preservation and its benefits.
• Describe important concrete pavement evaluation procedures.
• Understand the use and purpose of different concrete pavement preservation treatments.
• Describe concepts for selecting a concrete pavement preservation treatment strategy.

FAA Specification Updates

• Describe when FAA standard specifications must be used and how products are approved for use on airfield construction projects.
• Identify the publication that contains FAA construction standard specifications and where to locate the document.
• Discuss the triggers that may lead to an update in FAA design and construction publications.
• Explain the five phases of update a FAA publication undergoes.
• Understand the background of EB-106 and how to incorporate the revised language into FAA specifications.

Moving Forward With PEM… What’s Next?

• Discuss the concrete mixture properties that are affected by the construction process.
• List approaches to testing these properties.
• Describe how variations in source material can be accommodated by adjustments in the construction process.

2022

Concrete Overlay Case Studies

• Report the success of concrete overlays, and learn another perspective on concrete overlay designs.
• Understand how a slight change of concept can help concrete overlays to be constructed with the minimum amount of traffic interruption.
• Safety can be engineered into a project.
• Gain an understanding of FHWA’s Every Day Counts (EDC) Program and the Targeted Overlay Pavement Solutions (TOPS) initiative, and avail of FHWA resources for planning, designing, and constructing concrete overlays.
• Learn about experiences of other agencies with concrete overlays.

Traffic Management Strategies

• Identify the various different options for maintaining traffic during concrete pavement construction.
• Recognize the maintenance-of-traffic (MOT) options that Michigan has used in the past.
• Understand the various MOT approaches used successfully for various 2 lane facilities in Colorado.
• Recognize that maintaining traffic during construction is not “one-size-fits-all” for every project.
• How concrete pavement can be safely and effectively constructed on 2 lane road applications.

Pavement Network Asset Management: A Tool to Maximize the Return on Infrastructure Investments

• Recognize the importance of performance-based planning in the pavement’s environmental and economic impact.
• Articulate the role of a budget constraint in pavement network asset management.
• Relate the role of pavement treatment mix of fixes, budget increase, long-term evaluation, and market competition in the efficient allocation of funds to creating and maintaining pavement assets.
• Recognize the importance of asset management tools in:
  • Getting the most from a limited budget.
  • Achieving a carbon neutral transportation system.

Linking PEM and Sustainability

• Describe why the environmental impact of transportation infrastructure should be reduced.
• List steps that can be taken to reduce carbon footprint of concrete systems.
• Discuss how adoption of PEM philosophies have a direct impact on concrete longevity and sustainability.

Value Proposition and Performance of Concrete Overlays

• Learn about the value that concrete overlays can provide to agencies tasked with maintaining a pavement network in an era of increasing demands and challenges.
• Learn how concrete overlays have performed in service as a growing part of the roadway network in a number of US states.
• Gain an understanding of the different types of concrete overlays and their typical design applications.

Quality Control Plans, Quality Assurance Plans, Dispute Resolution

• Understand the importance of quality management, quality assurance, and quality control (QC) in concrete paving.
• Learn the benefits that both agencies and contractors can achieve through comprehensive, effective QC.
• Identify the key components of a QC Plan.
• Identify resources available to help develop and implement the appropriate processes and procedures to meet agency QC requirements.
• Learn strategies to support successful implementation of QC for both conventional and performance engineered concrete mixtures.
• Understand the role of tools such as QC plan templates, check sheets, and control charts to support effective QC.

Concrete Overlays for Airfield Rehabilitations

• Gain understanding of the various types of concrete overlays being used for airfield rehabilitations.
• Enhance understanding of concrete overlays’ performance capabilities and when they provide the most cost-effective rehab solution for distressed airfield pavements.
• Hear a concrete pavement industry perspective on why changing climate will challenge future airfield pavement designs and how concrete overlays can be used to improve pavement performance.
• Enhance awareness of construction lessons learned from early overlay projects as well as design tips to help manage concrete overlay costs.

(Series) Moving to Greener Pavements

• Explain why sustainability is important with respect to infrastructure needs.
• Define 3 approaches to reducing carbon footprint in mixtures.
• Discuss other actions that can improve pavement sustainability.
• Identify sustainable approaches to pavement preservation during the use phase.

• Explain the value chain approach to carbon neutrality and why it was chosen.
• Explain the two sources of GHG emissions at a cement plant.
• Identify at least two levers to optimize a concrete mixture.
• Identify at least two policies that can support reaching carbon neutrality.

2021

Next Generation Concrete Surfaces (NGCS)

• Why is NGCS the quietest non porous concrete texture?
• When would you chose to use NGCS?
• Why are longitudinal textures superior to transverse textures?

Understanding Penetrating Sealers for Concrete Pavements

• Discuss the different classifications performance of a variety of penetrating sealers.
• List the different test methods available to determine sealer effectiveness.
• Describe the conditions necessary for good penetrating sealer performance.
• Identify how and why Casey’s Corporation has utilized penetrating sealers.

Machine vs. Concrete: Building Long-Lasting Concrete Pavement

• Review the various stages of construction of a concrete pavement, and how actions in each stage may affect performance.
• Discuss test methods that can be used to quantify the effects of actions taken at each stage.
• Explain the effects of vibration on concrete mixture properties.
• Discuss the focus areas of ACPA’s RT&I Functional Committee.

Advancements in Performance Engineered Mixtures (PEM)

• Describe the philosophy behind the PEM program and the steps to implement it.
• Discuss how this has impacted activities in some states.
• Find the tools and support to adopt the philosophy in their own situation.

Resiliency: Proper Planning Prevents Disaster and Aids in Crisis Management: A Concrete Pavement Industry Perspective

• Discuss various climate risks associated with pavement design.
• Explain how changing climate impacts pavement layers and performance.
• Debate the concrete pavement industry perspective on why pavement resilience matters.
• Use knowledge of available concrete and cement based solutions to boost pavements’ resilience.

Innovation with Concrete Overlays for DOTs and Municipalities

• Identify resources for evaluating, designing, and constructing concrete overlays.
• Understand the differences between bonded and unbonded concrete overlays.
• Appreciate the long term viability of concrete overlays.
• List new technologies improving the design, construction and performance of overlays.
• Gain a better understanding of the use of concrete overlays in California.
• Learn about the collaboration used to advance concrete overlays.

Roller-Compacted Concrete for Roadway Applications

• Discuss economic viability of RCC pavements for a range of roadways.
• Explain why RCC provides long-term performance with low maintenance needs.
• List the advantages RCC in truck traffic routes.
• Explain how RCC is like PCC pavement in some ways and different in others.
• Access and use the PavementDesigner.org website for design guidance.

Recycled Concrete Aggregates

• Discuss the concrete recycling process and the characteristics of recycled concrete aggregate.
• Apply typical qualification tests.
• Identify the bound and unbound reuse applications and benefits of RCA in concrete paving projects.
• Adopt strategies to support successful use of RCA.
• Modify mixtures to accommodate aggregate moistures and slump loss.

Understanding the Value of Competition

• Describe the difference between inter-industry and intra-industry competition.
• Articulate the relationship between increased competition and asphalt and concrete paving prices.
• Describe what other benefits inter-industry competition can provide agencies.
• Identify several ways to get to a healthy two-pavement system.

Advancements in Our Knowledge and Action to Control ASR in Concrete Pavements

• Understand the fundamental approaches to alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR) mitigation or prevention.
• Become familiar with the available AASHTO and ASTM guide documents that describe approaches to alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR) mitigation or prevention.
• Identify the process that PennDOT used to implement a new ASR mitigation criterion.
• Describe how to use PennDOT’s specification to identify the mitigation level for an aggregate used in different applications.
• Differentiate reactivity levels from the analysis of a large number of ASTM C1260 and C1293 test results.
• Understand the importance of the early involvement of all parties in the implementation of ASR specifications based upon AASHTO R80.
• Discuss the limitations of current ASR test methods and the need to manage the expectations of all stakeholders when implementing ASR specifications.

Understanding the Application/Benefit of Fiber Reinforcement in Concrete

• Demonstrate how macrofibers improve the performance of concrete pavements.
• Illustrate how to incorporate FRC into existing concrete pavement design methods.
• Identify pavement construction adjustments required to accommodate for FRC materials.
• List examples of concrete pavement projects that have successfully applied macrofibers.

Dowel Bar Retrofit and Diamond Grinding Best Practices

• Identify early age concrete behavior that necessitates jointing.
• Identify the types of concrete pavement joints.
• Apply accepted principals to establish reasonable slab geometries.
• Identify conditions that require specific jointing or targeted reinforcing steel.

Concrete Pavement Thickness Design and Slab Geometry

• Determine dimensional characteristics of the concrete slab to achieve higher in-service concrete pavement performance.
• Optimize the dimensional characteristics in pavement design.
• Relate dimensions of the slab to the current design practice and their performances in the in-service pavement.
• Recognize important issues and trade off with the dimensional factors of the concrete slab.
• Describe the factors that influence the performance criteria in the Mechanistic Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG).
• Identify significant factors to meet or exceed the performance criteria in the MEPDG efficiently.

2020

Life-Cycle Cost Analysis in Pavement Design

• Describe the main objective in performing an LCCA.
• Identify the reason for discounting future-year costs.
• Discuss the difference between analysis period and initial performance period.
• Define functional equivalence for pavement designs.
• Characterize types of uncertainty for LCCA inputs.
• Describe why a life cycle perspective is important.

Roundabout Design and Construction

• Utilize the 6-Step Method to develop a joint layout for roundabouts.
• Determine what needs to be done with a dead-end joint.
• Identify different design methods for concrete roundabouts.
• Identify how maintenance of traffic/staging/phasing can impact/change a joint layout.

Resiliency/Resilient Pavement Systems

• Discuss the need to include “resilience thinking” into pavement design.
• Identify the major climate risks impacting pavement resiliency.
• Define the basic concepts of resiliency and how to apply it to pavement systems.
• List the key elements to improving a pavement’s resiliency to flooding.
• Describe how concrete and cement based paving solutions can be used as a way to address a pavement’s resiliency to flooding.

Achieving Smoothness in Concrete Pavement Construction

• Describe how initial smoothness extends pavement life.
• Identify how smoother roads reduce fuel consumption.
• Determine the outside factors affecting pavement profiles.
• Optimize grinding operations.
• Relate smoothness as defined by the customer.
• Recognize the importance of striving for collaboration from policy decision-makers, designers, and contractors to deliver smoothness.

Concrete Pavement Joint Design, Layout, and Construction

• Identify early age concrete behavior that necessitates jointing.
• Identify the types of concrete pavement joints.
• Apply accepted principals to establish reasonable slab geometries.
• Identify conditions that require specific jointing or targeted reinforcing steel.

(Series) Pavement Preservation

• Recognize the importance of using data driven pavement management in selecting preservation projects and strategies.
• Identify the difference between managing rigid pavements and flexible pavements.
• Explain how PMS data can be used to impact specifications and strategy selection.
• Share how Douglas County, Colorado is using their pavement management data to select and specify a preservation projects.

• Describe the need for a pavement evaluation and the uses of pavement evaluation data.
• List the common pavement evaluation components and what information is obtained from each.
• Describe how pavement evaluation data are used and interpreted.
• Select preservation treatments that address both effectiveness and economy.
• Address the preservation treatment information needs at the construction stage.

• Describe how initial smoothness extends pavement life.
• Identify how smoother roads reduce fuel consumption.
• Determine the outside factors affecting pavement profiles.
• Optimize grinding operations.
• Relate smoothness as defined by the customer.
• Recognize the importance of striving for collaboration from policy decision-makers, designers, and contractors to deliver smoothness.

• Become acquainted with MoDOT/FHWA National State & Contractor survey & interview results for six repair/preservation techniques.
• Identify appropriate Pre-Construction considerations (usage & design).
• Awareness of successful Specifications & Construction guidelines.
• List successful Inspection/ Acceptance procedures.
• Increased knowledge of Performance & Survival experience of each treatment.

(Series) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

• Describe how Wisconsin is implementing PROWAG’s 11% max slope difference between ramp and gutter pan.
• Discuss the Curb Ramp Staking Bid Item and how Wisconsin is utilizing this item and their experience so far.
• Apply innovative methodologies Missouri has implemented towards achieving ADA compliance.
• Discuss how to implement a “Per EACH Curb Ramp” pay item into contracts.

(Series) Concrete Overlays

• Describe how bonded and unbonded overlays perform under load.
• Discuss how to select which system to use in a given situation.
• List the actions required to evaluate the existing pavement.

• Identify the four thickness design tools primarily used for overlays in the U.S.
• Determine an appropriate design procedure for bonded concrete overlays of asphalt.
• Identify which major design procedure is not mechanistically based.
• Utilize online design tools to perform a concrete overlay design.

• Identify typical vertical constraints that require design solutions for mitigation.
• Consideration of balancing maintenance of traffic and its impact on construction cost and schedule.
• Understanding of approaches for reducing the width of the construction zone required for concrete overlays.
• Identification of key inspection items related to concrete paving.

• Discuss the basic concepts of repairing thin concrete overlays.
• List alternatives for repairing thin concrete pavements.
• Identify failure modes of thin concrete overlays.
• Describe what factors drove Indiana to explore the use of PCC overlays on their state highway system.
• Identify design criteria, construction practice and maintenance of traffic options utilized by Indiana to build multiple thin concrete overlay projects.