The 2nd International Intelligent Construction Technologies Group (IICTG) conference will be held in Beijing, China, from April 23 to 25, 2019. Mark your calendar and download the First Announcement document in English or in Chinese. Check out the IICTG website for further details.

The recently published FHWA Intelligent Compaction Measurement Values (ICMV) Road Map Tech Brief (FHWA-HIF-17-046) is updated. Notable updates are the updated tables for ICMV models and ICMV levels. Download the updated/corrected version www.intelligentconstruction.comdownloads/EDC/Tech-Brief-ICMV-20171219.pdf!

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!