There will be an Intelligent Compaction (IC) and Infrared thermal profiling (IR) presentation by Dr. George Chang of Transtec Group, also President of IICTG, at the Minnesota Asphalt Paving Association conference, on Friday, December 8, 2017.
Check it out the program here. )
The 40th Anniversary of CCC (Continuous Compaction Control) Symposium will be held in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 29, 2018. It is coordinated by Dr. Pistrol Johannes, also a Technical Committee member of IICTG. Back to where CCC was started in 1978, 40 years ago (now also known as Intelligent Compaction – IC), the symposium will cover the following topics:
• Historic overview of roller compaction and Continuous Compaction Control (CCC)
• Continuous Compaction Control – CCC applications and interpretation of measurements
• Field testing methods for compaction control (e.g. static and dynamic plate load test)
• Standardization, QA/QC and design aspects
• Recent and future developments (e.g. compaction equipment, electronics, internet)
The deadline for the abstract submission is April 30th, 2018. Please mark your calendar!
There will be an Intelligent Compaction (IC) and Infrared thermal profiling (IR) presentation by Dr. George Chang of Transtec Group, also President of IICTG, at the Swedish Asphalt Days conference, on Nov. 22 and Nov. 23.
Check it out the program here. )
The 2017 Alaska DOT Asphalt Summit will feature presentations on Intelligent Compaction (IC) and Paver-mounted Thermal Profiles (PMTP) on November 7th, 2017. Dr. George K. Chang of Transtec Group, also President of IICTG, will provide in-depth description of how intelligent compaction (IC) and paver-mounted thermal profiling (PMTP) can be used to improve construction quality control and eventually for acceptance. With the use of Veta software, the big data management (including data processing, viewing, analysis, and report) of IC and PMTP can be facilitated. National implementation of IC and PMTP will be also be presented – including challenges/solutions for States/Industry as well as benefits on both sides. Mike Himler, Granite & Ron Searcy, and Richard Giessel, AKDOT, will share their IC and PMTP experiences from the Glenn Highway project.
The first-ever International Intelligent Compaction Technologies Group (IICTG) conference was held September 26-28 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. More than 165 industry professionals were in attendance, representing manufacturing companies, public agencies, private contracting and consulting services, and academia from across North America, Europe, and Asia.
The theme of the conference was Intelligent Construction Technologies – Past and Future, covering the past 25 years of Intelligent Construction Technologies (ICT) development and looking forward to the future of the technologies. On the conference agenda were presentations, workshops, vendor exhibits, and interactive panel discussions. Some of the most popular topics covered include Intelligent Compaction Measurement Values (ICMV), drones, and Building Information Modeling (BIM).
The goal of the conference was to create a platform so all ICT users, experts, and manufacturers could collaborate and move the technology forward.
Curt Turgeon, MnDOT Pavement Engineer and IICTG Steering Committee member, said he found the wide-range of attendees to be the most beneficial aspect of the conference.
“There were professors from China, Europe, and United States providing research on near-future potential,” Turgeon said. “There were international equipment developers and support staff providing the latest in available technology. There were several contractors with firsthand experience using the equipment on today’s projects, and there were more than a dozen state DOTs representing specifiers and practitioners. The conference format provided opportunities for all to provide input and learn across all the interacting disciplines.”
Don Matthews, TSD Manager Chief Engineer at Pavement Recycling Systems, Inc. and IICTG Technical Committee member, found the conference to be beneficial for all people and organizations using ICT.
“The conference gave a great insight into both the challenges and successes that agencies, original equipment manufacturers (OEM), and contractors have experienced in intelligent construction,” said Matthews. “It also shed light on what it will take to make IC more successful and cost effective for full scale implementation in the future.”
For more information about the conference and the topics covered, visit IICTG.org.
IICTG Conference 2019
The next IICTG Conference will be held in March 2019 in Beijing, China. The theme of the second conference is Innovate for Growth and Cooperate for Win-Win. Please visit IICTG.org for more information.
About IICTG
Dr. George Chang, IICTG President and Director of Research at The Transtec Group, has been instrumental in implementing intelligent construction technologies over the past ten years, working with a diverse range of organizations. Dr. Chang began to realize that these organizations, such as state departments of transportation, contractors, and manufacturers, were all using the same types of innovative technologies and discovering new ways of using them or improving them, but there was a lack of collaboration between the groups. To build a bridge over the collaboration gap, Dr. Chang, with the help of many others, started IICTG in the summer of 2016.
IICTG is a source for knowledge and information on intelligent construction technologies for public agencies, contractors, consultants, academia, and all other relevant industries. IICTG provides a forum for the dissemination of knowledge concerning the collection, analysis, and application of information relating to intelligent construction technologies.
IICTG membership is free and open to representatives of public agencies or organizations active in or interested in the scope of IICTG. If you are interested in becoming a member, contact IICTG.
Prof. Guanghui Xu, an IICTG Executive Committee member, will make an intelligent compaction presentation at the Chinese Construction Equipment conference in Xu Zhou, China, on October 23, 2017. This conference is organized by the Pavement and Compaction Machines subcommittee of the Chinese Association of Construction Equipment Industry.
Prof. Xu’s presentation topic will be “Development of Intelligent Compaction Equipment to Improve Construction Quality “.
The International Intelligent Construction Technologies Group (IICTG) 2017 conference is a huge success! Thanks to all attendees, speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors… and esp. the IICTG 2017 planning committee! The great presentations will be posted in the next few days on a “IICTG member-only” webpage. Find out how to be an IICTG member here!
Here is the group picture! The original picture file is available on the 2017 conference webpage.
An Intelligent Construction Data Management (ICDM) and Veta workshop will be conducted at the IICTG 2017 conference in Minneapolis, MN, on September 26. The workshop is open to all IICTG 2017 registrants. Veta 4.3 will be featured in this workshop with extensive hands-on exercises. The attendees will get a sneak preview of Veta 5.0 at the end of the workshop. Check out the agenda here!
Dr. George K. Chang, The Transtec Group’s Director of Research and a champion for Intelligent Compaction, is the recipient of the 2017 Billiard-Stubstad Award. ASTM International Committee E17 on Vehicle – Pavement Systems presented the award to Dr. Chang in recognition of his contributions to improving the use of inertial profiler data around the world and his substantial contributions to the roughness standards preparation and maintenance activities for committee E17.
“Through his work in the field of the measurement, processing and analysis of pavement profiles, Dr. Chang had become a well-known expert in the field of pavement smoothness,” said Dr. Zoltan Rado, chairman of the E17 committee. “He had used and dedicated his expertise and knowledge in the technical and practical pavement profile measurement area to bring unique administrative contributions and leadership in the standards development work of ASTM E17. His work within the E17 committee had made it possible for the committee to develop and maintain relevant standards that support the industry and user communities as well as state and national regulatory bodies with pavement roughness measurement and analysis standards.”
Dr. Chang has also previously received the 2007 Kummer Lecture Award and the 2010 Meyer-Horne Outstanding Achievement Award from ASTM.
The Billiard-Stubstad Award was established in 2015 in honor of Gary Billiard and Richard Stubstad. The award is intended to recognize individuals who have made exemplary technical, practical, and/or administrative contributions to the pavement engineering community through their standards development efforts.
ASTM Committee E17 on Vehicle-Pavement Systems was formed in 1960. The Committee has 11 technical subcommittees that have jurisdiction of over 73 standards, published in the Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Volume 4.03. These standards have and continue to play a preeminent role in all aspects important to pavement management technologies, vehicle pavement interactions and intelligent transportation systems.
Dr. Chang is a world expert on pavement smoothness and intelligent compaction. He has extensive experiences in pavement engineering consulting, research, training, and pavement software development. He has been actively involved in many projects that relate to pavement surface characteristics–including friction, smoothness, texture, tire-pavement noise–materials structure design, and intelligent construction technologies. Dr. Chang’s unique expertise is in system/model integration, data collection and analysis, and asset management. He has developed many pavement engineering software applications that have been used as standards around the US and the world. He also co-founded the International Intelligent Construction Technologies Group (IICTG) association in 2016.
For more information on ASTM Committee E17 on Vehicle-Pavement Systems or the Billiard-Stubstad Award, please visit www.astm.org.
Intelligent Construction Technologies Group (IICTG) committee members will be presenting at an US Transportation Research Board (TRB) webinar “Application of Intelligent Compaction Technology for Compaction Quality Control of Pavement Layers” on Thursday, July 20, 2017 from US 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM EDT. Please register to reserve your seat NOW!
This webinar will provide an overview of Intelligent Compaction (IC) technology, including how IC can be applied to soils, bases, and asphalt layers. IC deals with the continuous assessment of compacted layer properties using roller vibration parameters and roller speed integrated with GPS to provide comprehensive compaction information. Presenters will discuss the application of IC from different viewpoints, including academia, industry, and a state department of transportation. This webinar was organized by the TRB AFP 70 Standing Committee on Aggregates and TRB AFS 20 Standing Committee on Geotechnical Instrumentation and Modeling.
The webinar presenters are as follows from IICTG and moderated by Prof. Mehran Mazari, California State University at Los Angeles:
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