Agenda

Registration:                        8:00 – 8:30 am

Morning Session:                8:30 am – 12:15 pm

Lunch (On your own):         12:15 – 1:15 pm

Afternoon Session:             1:00 – 4:30 pm

Principles of Pavement Design

   Goals of pavement design
      Smooth, stable surface and longevity
   Terminology and basic components
      Pavement section
      Asphalt and concrete components
      Loading
   Consulting guidelines and standards
   Collecting data necessary for design
   Economics and lifecycle analysis

Aggregate Bases and Low Volume Road Design

   Soil support and subsurface preparation
   Base course design
   Aggregate surfaced low volume road design
   Use of geosynthetics in pavement design

Flexible Pavement Design

   Soil support and subsurface preparation
   Reclamation and recycling
   Mixture content and pavement thickness
   Preparing and overlaying existing pavement

Rigid Pavement Design

   Soil support and subsurface preparation
   Mixture content and pavement thickness
   Preparing and overlaying existing pavements
   Joint design

Maintenance and Rehabilitation

   Goals
   Distresses
   Preservation techniques
   Rehabilitation practices

Sustainability of Pavements

   Recycled materials
   Pervious pavements
   Runoff filtration zones

Credits

Professional Engineers
   6.5 PDHs

Architects
   6.5 HSW PDHs
   6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units

Contractors
   Non-Credit Continuing Ed.

Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers and 6.5 HSW PDHs/continuing education hours to architects in all states, excluding Florida architects.  Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Kansas.

This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885).  Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.

HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.  HalfMoonEducation is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects.

This seminar provides a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors.  It has not been submitted to any state contractor licensing board for continuing education approval.

Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.

Speakers

Jeffrey Frantzen

Kaw Valley Engineering, Inc.

Kaw Valley Engineering, Inc.Dr. Frantzen is a materials engineer with Kaw Valley Engineering, Inc.  His present responsibilities involve pavement design; concrete, asphalt, and aggregate materials engineering; and general geotechnical engineering work.  Dr. Frantzen has experience in Superpave and Marshall methods of asphalt mix design and ACI and Shilstone methods of concrete mix design.  He has experience with AASHTO, Asphalt Institute, PCA, PCASE, and USACE methods of pavement design for asphalt, concrete, and aggregate surfaced pavements.  His previous employment experience over the last 40 years has been with the Kansas DOT, Koss Construction Company, and Kleinfelder.  He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Nebraska, Kansas State University, and the University of Kansas, respectively.