January 23, 2010
8:00 AM	AC-7: Improve Your Overlay Work Jim Scherocman, P.E., 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	D-27: 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 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 new session is up to the task!
8:00 AM	D-28: Fine-tune Your Bidding to Get More Work and Help Your Customer Tim Murphy Murphy Pavement Technology Understanding how to submit the best proposal possible is "make or break" to your business, and making sure that you supply what is asked for is important. But knowing how to develop and present a competent alternate bid is just as important to your success. In this new session you'll learn how paying close attention to bid documents helps you learn what your client is really asking for, and that leads to openings for supplying a better bid than your competition. You'll work through several case studies that demonstrate how a contractor who did not bid what was quoted won the job and still made money by reviewing a client's desired scope of work. Opportunities to improve a scope of work will be explained, explored, and expanded upon in an interactive way.
8:00 AM	D-29: Indoor Striping and Outdoor Sports Court Marking Robert Liles Robert Liles Parking Lot Service, Tyler, TX Striping pros can keep crews and equipment productive and keep cash flowing by providing indoor striping services to factories, warehouses, and other facilities that need indoor marking. In this new session, presented by experienced indoor stripers, you'll learn everything you need to know to take your striping business indoors when the weather gets wet or too cold to stripe. You'll learn how the equipment you already own can be used, and what equipment you need to add. You'll learn about the different marking materials and processes required indoors (including removal of floor sealer), and you'll learn safety guidelines that apply to your indoor work. Plus, you'll get a crash course in striping sports courts as another way to expand your business within the market you currently serve. Don't miss this opportunity to learn these two striping niches from a contractor who works with them every day.
8:00 AM	D-30: Pavement Maintenance "Best Practices" for the Jobsite James B. Curtis CHEC Management Systems Inc. Property owners and managers are increasingly calling upon contractors to perform pavement maintenance instead of using the expense of an engineer or construction manager. But using the correct techniques in the pavement industry is sometimes hard to determine depending on the type of existing materials used on the jobsite. A leading expert on pavement will discuss pavement defects, pavement surface treatments, correct construction techniques and "best practices" for applying pavement repairs, and other state-of-the-art industry standards that can save time and money on the job site and provide your clients with longer-lasting pavement. Timing of repairs and priority of repairs will be discussed, and you'll learn how to match the repair to the pavement. Help your customer get the most bang! for his pavement maintenance buck!
10:00 AM	AC-8: Effective Compaction of Hot Mix Asphalt Jim Scherocman, P.E., 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	D-31: "Accident Readiness" for Your Drivers Scott Cerosky, Risk Management Specialist Drivers are extensions of your company each time they head out to a job, and they face the possibility of an accident every time they pull onto the road. In this new session, by a presenter who has worked 15 years providing specific insurance products and services to the pavement maintenance industry, you'll learn everything you and your drivers need to know and do should an accident occur. You'll learn how to handle on-scene injuries, who to contact, what type of information to gather at the site, how to safeguard the accident scene, and more. Then you'll learn the proper steps to take when reporting the accident to your office, the police, and your insurance company, as well as proper accident follow-up. Plus, take home accident prevention tips your business and drivers can put to use right away. A session for owners, supervisors, and anyone who drives a company vehicle.
10:00 AM	D-32: Commercial Paving Materials, Machinery, and Methods Tim Murphy Murphy Pavement Technology You can win or lose a contract bid if you don't know the difference between different types of asphalt materials available in your region of the nation. Additionally, "machinery and methods" selected for building a hot mix asphalt parking lot can help -- or hurt -- your production as well as the look of your finished work. This session will openly discuss the pros and cons of asphalt mixtures available and their visual as well as performance expectations. Plus, you�ll learn about machinery -- trucks, pavers, and rollers -- and methods that should be used to achieve the best finished work in the most efficient time possible. Come get insights into commercial paving from a specialist who makes a living consulting for property owners and managers!
10:00 AM	D-33: Succeeding in Commercial Sealcoating Nick Howell T&N Asphalt Services Do you presently sealcoat driveways or small projects? Are you interested in learning tricks of the trade and the "how tos" of stepping up to the next level in sealcoating? This seminar will help you tackle large commercial sealcoating jobs and will show that moving up to larger work isn't as difficult - or as expensive - as you might think. You'll learn about marketing to property managers and owners of these larger centers, estimating larger jobs, negotiating with your suppliers for better pricing, typical insurance requirements, essential equipment, benefits of partnering and subcontracting with other contractors, scheduling to please the owner, as well as some other "been there" tricks. Take the anxiety and stress out of doing larger work!
10:00 AM	D-34: How to Stripe the Tough Jobs Mick Vinckier Miktom Parking Lot Maintenance Here's a session with no easy angles! Now that you know striping basics, you need to learn how to handle the tough layout and striping jobs -- and this session by one of the pavement marking industry's most innovative contractors will show you how. Learn to stripe both straight-in 90-degree and 60-degree angled stalls on both inside and outside curves using simple homemade tools -- and no math; learn radius development and how to stripe curved lines; plus take home shortcuts that will make your daily layout work easier. For contractors who have mastered restriping and basic layout, experienced stripers who want a fresh take on parking lot layout, and any pavement marking contractors who want to move up to the next level.

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