NRMCA Pavement Engineer Amanda Hult presented last week Promoting Concrete Parking Lots to the attendees at a meeting in Minneapolis of the Aggregates and Ready Mix Association of Minnesota. Hult discussed the many arguments heard for not designing with concrete for parking lots, countering with basic design information on conventional, pervious and roller compacted concrete along with overlays. She also introduced NRMCA's Design Assistance Program (DAP) many of whom had not heard about the program and then challenged each attendee to submit a project through the program.

"The success rate that we see for the projects sent through this program has continually tracked above 65% since 2012," Hult stated. "That is a lot of concrete going down that would have potentially gone to another type of pavement material."