Concrete Paving Association of Minnesota

4517 Allendale Drive, Suite A, White Bear Township, MN  55127
Phone:  651.762.0402      Fax:  651.762.0638

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2008                                                                                   

Volume 2008, Issue 1 - January
  -  CPAM Hosts Iowa Concrete Overlay Tour
  -  Mankato Regional Airport Runway Extension
  -  Twin Cities vs. Detroit - A look at rebuilding freeways and full road closures
  -  Mike Sheehan Named Outstanding Government Official
  - 
CPAM's Annual Membership Meeting Highlights

Volume 2008, Issue 2 - April
  -  Annual workshop and paving awards highlights
  -  2008 Arnie Laingen award recipient
  -  In Memoriam:  Al Renier

Volume 2008, Issue 3 - July
  -  Diamond Grinding & Grooving
  -  Tribute to Al Renier
  -  Freeborn County
  -  Six-inch PCC Pavement

2007                                                                                   

Volume 2007, Issue 1 - January
  -  Freeborn County project beats the snow
  -  What is the price of your pavement?
  -  How to "whitetop" a narrow road into a full-width highway
  -  There is more to a pavement than the surface!

Volume 2007, Issue 2 - April
  -  Annual workshop and paving awards highlights

Volume 2007, Issue 3 - July
  -  What is equivalent design?
  -  White and black decisions
  - 
To buy a car.... or ... To select a highway pavement

2006                                                                                   

Volume 2006, Issue 1 - April
 -  Annual workshop and paving awards highlights

Volume 2006, Issue 2 - May
  -  Taxpayer Alert!  Why choose concrete?
  -  State Aid Design Chart now available for low-volume roads
  -  Concrete overlays

Volume 2006, Issue 3 - August
  -  Taxpayer Alert!  Smooth and quiet pavement
  -  Concrete whitetopping huge success
  -  Minne-ALF now available for pavement studies

2005                                                                                   

Volume 2005, Issue 1 - April
 -  Annual workshop and paving awards highlights

Volume 2005, Issue 2 - July
  -  King of the Road testing facilities
  -  Dowel basket tie wires
  -  Permanent vs. Perpetual
  -  Concrete for cool communities

Volume 2005, Issue 3 - November
  -  Concrete project rated #1 (I-494/694)
  -  ACPA literature addresses alkali-silica reaction acceleration
  -  World record recycling project (Stapleton Airport - Denver)

2004                                                                                   

Volume 2004, Issue 1 - March
 -  Annual workshop and paving awards highlights

Volume 2004, Issue 2 - September
  -  Local supplier develops alternative to stainless - CLAD dowels
  -  MAPA flyers take study findings out of context

2003                                                                                   

Volume 2003, Issue 1 - February
  -  Better Roads article misleads readers
  -  Concrete pavements cut fuel consumption
  -  Frost Heave:  How to identify
  -  Concrete vs. Asphalt:  Which is easier?

Volume 2003, Issue 2 - June
  -  Mn/DOT study:  Whitetopping most cost-effective overlay for low-volume road
  -  Annual workshop and paving awards highlights
 

Volume 2003, Issue 3 - November
  -  Five inches of concrete carries the load at MnROAD
  -  Secrets of thin PCC pavements and cheap insurance
  -  Highway 61, revisited

2002                                                                                   

Volume 2002, Issue 1 - February   
  -  MnROAD data shows concrete
is better
  -  "Perpetual" Pavements??


Volume 2002, Issue 2 - May
 
-  Annual workshop and paving awards highlights
  -  US 61 nears 50 years of service with single rehab
  -  Controlling construction costs and time help the contractor help you

Volume 2002, Issue 3 - October
  -  Mn/DOT earns national recognition for 60 year PCC (I-35W)
  -  True cost of PCC overlays