The NAPA 2024 Annual Meeting is still going strong, but already we're gearing up for our big trade show: World of Asphalt in Nashville, Tennessee March 25-27.

Interested in attending? Register through Feb. 2 and save 30% by using NAPA's special code: NEWS30. 

Norris Asphalt's Brady Meldrem takes gavel

NAPA's outgoing chair Christian Zimmermann handed off the gavel to Brady Meldrem as part of the kickoff to the NAPA 2024 Annual Meeting at the Omni Orlando at ChampionsGate on Jan. 29.

Meldrem officially unveiled the association's 2023 Annual Report and announced a fundraising effort for scholarships to the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) called Road Scholars. NAPA aims to raise $3 million to help educate the next generation of asphalt pavement engineers.

NAPA welcomes Mitch Baldwin to the Government Affairs team. Mitch started with NAPA on Jan. 24 and brings a wealth of expertise from his career in the public sector, most recently at the Maryland State Highway Administration.

Mitch helps lead and coordinate regulatory and legislative communications, agency and committee activities, and PAC strategy.

At NAPA Annual? Meet our government affairs team at the NAPA PAC Reception on Jan. 30 at 6 p.m.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host two webinars in early February of interest to those in the asphalt pavement industry.

Feb. 1 
Developing a Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials

Feb. 8 
EPA’s Efforts to Improve Product Category Rules for Environmental Product Declarations

WEBINAR FEB. 15: BMD Peer-To-Peer Exchanges: Findings and Challenges to Implementation

IS-117 Guidelines for Use of Asphalt Overlays to Rehabilitate PCC Pavements is available to download from the NAPA website.

• Understand the rehabilitation process and the rehabilitation of PCC pavements with asphalt overlays
• Mix design for asphalt overlays 
• Research backed by case studies: Perpetual asphalt pavement over rubblized JRCP on I-295 in New Jersey, and asphalt overlay over broken and seated JRCP on SR-28 in Pennsylvania

Submit your application by Jan. 31 for your chance to be the benchmark for our industry.