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Central Region Kicks Off PACA's 2020 Technical Community Meetings |
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On February 4, 30 PACA members and personnel from PennDOT Districts 2,3,8 and 9; PennDOT QA, and PennDOT LTS met at New Enterprise Stone and Lime Co.'s Roaring Spring office for the first of our regional Technical Community Meetings.Featured discussions and presentations included:
- Working Toward a New Skid Resistance Level Rating System (SRL)
- Report from members of the SRL subcommittee of the Aggregate Quality Improvement Committee (AQIC)
- Demonstration of an Affordable and Easy Way to Monitor the Curing of Test Cylinders
- Live demonstration of one of the easy temperature reading and reporting systems
- Presentation on Using Portland-Limestone Cement (PLC or 1L)
- Portland Limestone cement (PLC or Type 1L) is now approved for use and available throughout Pennsylvania. Members of our Cementitious Materials Technical Community presented information on the use of and advantages of this product.
- Reports from the AQIC, the Concrete Quality Improvement Committee (QIC) and the Cementitious Materials QIC.
- Pub 408 rewrite changes and discussion of items from PennDOT LTS
We will continue these discussions at the upcoming Western and Eastern Regional meetings. The tentative schedule for these meetings, as well as, registration links to these meeting and the individual PACA Technical Community Meetings in April are below.
Regional DME’s and PennDOT QA personnel have confirmed their attendance for the regional meetings.
Western Pennsylvania Technical Community Meetings - February 25th - Doubletree by Hilton Pittsburgh-Cranberry, Mars, PA - REGISTER
Eastern Pennsylvania Technical Community Meetings - March 3rd - Associated Builders and Contractors, East Norriton, PA - REGISTER
Tentative Schedule
9:30 AM - SRL Discussion
10:00 AM - Presentations on PLC & Automated Curing Box Monitoring
11:00 AM - Review of Items from the AQIC, Concrete QIC and CMQIC
Noon - Working lunch - Pub 408 rewrite changes and discussion items from PennDOT LTS
1:30 PM - Open Discussion on Aggregates, Concrete and Cementitious Materials Specification Policies
April 2020, we will have standalone Technical Community Meetings in the Harrisburg area. These meetings will start at 9:00am and conclude by 2:00 pm.
The dates and locations are:
PACA Aggregates Technical Community Meeting - April 8th - Hershey Lodge, Hershey, PA - REGISTER
PACA Concrete Technical Community Meeting - April 16th - Hershey Country Club, Hershey, PA - REGISTER
PACA Cementitious Materials Technical Community Meeting - April 22nd - Hershey Country Club, Hershey, PA - REGISTER
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