Educational seminars last 1.5 hours.
Educational workshops last 3 hours.
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| 8:00 AM | AC-5: Improve Your Overlay Work Jim Scherocman, Consulting Engineer Overlay work is a mainstay of most paving contractors and this session will help you improve every parking lot and roadway overlay you do. First you'll learn why preparation of the pavement surface is essential to a long-lasting, quality overlay. Then you'll learn surface preparation "best practices" including the most-effective techniques for patching, cracksealing, and cleaning the pavement surface. Next you'll work, step by step, through the construction process, from tack coat application to hot mix asphalt placement and compaction. What you learn in this session will improve your overlays on your very next job! | ||
| 8:00 AM | C-18: Increasing Efficiency in the Field Guy Gruenberg Grow Consulting Because your crews and equipment are out on every job, any improvement in field efficiency is multiplied over the number of jobs - and that can make a real impact on your business. In this session - which received a perfect rating in 2010 -- you'll learn tips and techniques that can help you save money every time your crew heads into the field. You'll learn how to do a better job tracking time, how to minimize equipment repairs, when it's better to rent vs. buy, how to develop measurable goals so you can offer incentives for improved field performance, and more!. Improving field efficiency in pavement maintenance, paving, and sweeping is a challenge ?? and this session is up to the task! | ||
| 8:00 AM | C-19: Managing and Motivating the "Mosaic Generation”"Workforce Jeff Stokes Next Level Contractor System Not only are there fewer workers available for tomorrow's jobs, but the "Mosaic" workers come with a whole new set of rules and values (including the need for real conversation). In this session you"ll discover "generalizations" about this new generation of workers and you'll learn how they compare and contrast with "Boomers" and "Builders." You'll learn detailed action steps that will enable supervisors to engage the hearts and minds of today"s workers as you seek to keep them motivated, including: Understanding the forms of communication that are desired and accepted by this generation; learning the key steps in attracting, retaining and motivating these workers; and incorporating new ideas into daily practice to build trust and respect with these workers. Your workforce is the key to your success, and this session will help you get the best out of this new generation of workers. | ||
| 8:00 AM | C-20: Parking Lot Layout & Striping Basics Robert Liles Robert Liles Parking Lot Service Laying out parking lots for striping follows a series of steps that need to be taken in the right order, and this new session by a veteran striping contractor lays it all out for you - starting from the beginning. You'll learn how to read specs and blueprints, what it means to "square up" a lot, the importance of a base line and how to find or establish one, how to create a perpendicular line and what you can do with it, how to create the various types of angled spaces - and more! Paint and equipment basics will also be covered, plus you'll learn what every striper needs to have in his truck to get every job done. If you want the basics of parking lot layout - for yourself or your crew members - this is the place. Striping veterans attend at your own risk! | ||
| 8:00 AM | C-21: Sealcoating: Regulatory Challenges and Industry Initiatives Anne LeHuray, PCTC Executive Director Robert DeMott, PhD, DABT Environ Kirk O'Reilly, PhD, JD Exponent  Refined tar-based sealants are being scrutinized by local, state and federal governments because of a now-discredited theory that sealants are a major source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the environment. In this session, the Pavement Coatings Technology Council (PCTC) will describe industry initiatives focused on both understanding how sealants impact the environment and educating government officials and the public about those impacts. You'll leave this session with a better understanding of refined tar-based sealants in the environment, including the Austin, TX, case, and you'll have plenty of time to ask questions of the panel. | ||
| 8:00 AM | W-9: Understanding Pavement Defects & Repair Options James Curtis Chec Management Systems 3 Hour Workshop
Get more work, earn more money, and do a better job for your clients by making sure your pavement repairs treat the cause and not the symptom. An expansion and update of the popular "Understanding Pavement Defects" seminar, this new approach combines the principles of pavement design with a solutions-oriented approach to pavement defects to help you increase your success rate on pavement patches and repairs. You'll learn the causes and cure options for all types of pavement defects, you'll take home an understanding of how the pavement surface can give you insights into what's going on beneath the pavement, plus you'll learn the basics of pavement design so you can make the best-possible repair decision for your client. Take home put-to-work information you can use on every pavement repair or patching job!
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| 9:00 AM | W-10: The Profitmaker’s Toolchest Kraig Kramers CEO Tools/Corporate Partners, Inc. 3 Hour Workshop
SPECIAL NAPSA-MEMBER PRICING: $60 What if you had a complete set of instant power tools for growing your profit dollars? That's what you'll take home after attending this high-powered presentation by the acclaimed author of CEO Tools: The Nuts & Bolts of Business for Every Manager's Success. From this dynamic presentation you'll learn more than 150 plug-and-play tools for rapid profit acceleration in your company. Kraig Kramers, who presented last year's top-rated "CEO Tool Kit" workshop at National Pavement Expo, will show you how and when to use these powerful tools while dealing with the real world challenges of:
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| 10:00 AM | AC-6: Effective Compaction of Hot Mix Asphalt Jim Scherocman, Consulting Engineer Compaction is the single most important factor in the ultimate performance of a hot mix asphalt pavement. Achieving the proper air void content in the compacted mix makes the difference between a long-lasting asphalt overlay and one that fails prematurely, causing trouble and frustration for you (and your customer). This top-ranked session, by a highly-rated speaker, will help paving crews understand the basic elements of compaction and the use of various types of rollers, including static steel wheel, pneumatic tire, and vibratory steel wheel rollers. Effective compaction of both stiff and tender hot mix asphalt mixtures will be covered. | ||
| 10:00 AM | C-22: Profitable Pavement Maintenance Job Costing Guy Gruenberg Grow Consulting What is the most profitable service you perform? You may be surprised at the answer once you start working through real-time pavement maintenance job costing scenarios. In this session you will be exposed to understanding how to better cost the three primary pavement maintenance services: Sealcoating, cracksealing, and pavement marking. Starting with conceptual spreadsheet costs you will then migrate to how you can apply these basic techniques to your accounting package. QuickBooks Pro will be the example program and the session will work through direct cost to selling price. Included will be determining your overhead and sales budget. Job costing doesn??t have to be difficult, but it does have to be done properly. This session will show you how. | ||
| 10:00 AM | C-23: Sweeper Safety and Operating Techniques that Protect Operators -And Your Business Jim Green Alamo Group 
Every contract sweeper wants safer, more effective operators and this session by a certified training specialist will help you make that happen. You'll gain insights into how people learn new safety behaviors, how to use those insights to teach safety behaviors to your operators so they "get it," and how to train your operators in safety "Best Practices" of day-to-day sweeper operations - including operating techniques. You'll leave this session able to evaluate your sweeper operators' safety awareness knowledge, and able demonstrate the "best practices" of sweeper operator safety and operating techniques. Plus you'll take home a sample training workbook and a sweeper operator pre-operation sample checklist. A session every contract sweeper should attend!
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| 10:00 AM | C-24: Better Estimating on Sealcoating Jobs Jeff Stokes Next Level Contactor System Knowing how to bid competitively - while still being able to increase your profits - is one of the secrets of running a successful sealcoating business. And this highly successful session will do more than reveal the secret - it will show you how to better calculate the actual cost of each sealcoating job. You will learn bidding techniques that - based on the actual job cost - will ensure you a reasonable job profit, and you'll also work through a step-by-step example of a sealcoating job, learning all the factors that must go into costing and bidding each type of work. Don't miss this chance to increase your profits by improving your estimating and bidding. What you learn in this session can reap profits on your very next bid! | ||
| 10:00 AM | C-25: Complex Striping Layout: How Global Positioning Can Help Fred Stewart Stewart Surveying & Engineering Some parking lot layouts are large or complex enough that transferring the layout from blueprint to pavement can be problematic at best. But advances in technology, notably Global Positioning Systems (GPS), can make the process easy and guarantee the layout will be virtually error free. In this new session an engineer/surveyor with experience in the pavement marking industry will show you how you can turn to a GPS specialist to help you solve the most difficult layouts you encounter. He'll start with a crash course on GPS, then show you how GPS can be used to identify everything from aisles to centerline end points to the beginning and end of a bank of stalls. With that background you'll work through two complex projects - each with its own unique problems - where GPS was used to ease layout and produce a top-notch finished job.
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| 1:00 PM | W-11: Getting the Most Out of Your QuickBooks! Pam Newman RPPC, Inc. 3 Hour Workshop
Most contractors rely on QuickBooks for office, accounting, and other financial functions, are you getting the most out of this versatile and easy-to-use software? This intermediate-level session, presented by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and contractor financials specialist, will take you beyond the basics, teaching you more of what QuickBooks can do to help your business. You'll start with a brief review of QuickBook's basic features, including invoicing, bill paying, and financial reports, but then you'll quickly move on to the next level, learning how to use QuickBooks to:
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| 2:00 PM | C-26: Repeat Sales: The Secret to Long-term Success Guy Gruenberg Grow Consulting The more repeat business you have, the less money you'll spend on advertising, marketing, and "cold calls," and the greater your profits, long-term success, and business security. In this new session, Guy Gruenberg will take you through techniques and approaches that could "re-add" 30%-50% to your annual revenues. You'll cover pre-planning that includes "post-work" opportunities, insuring that you really do quality work-the first time, updating your customers throughout your construction process, how to network each sale into multiple sales opportunities. Plus learn how to leave your customer jealous of having you work for anyone else! This session is for owners and sales professionals who want to build a pavement maintenance "annuity" for future security! | ||
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