Committee Corner, November 2024

Cold Recycling (CR) Committee

The CR committee had record attendance at our latest in-person meeting at the ARRA Pavement Recycling Summit in Reno, NV. The collective group discussed engaging in Sustainability Committee efforts as well as initiatives to develop a specification database for ARRA members. Our committee members voted to select the Cold Recycling recognition award winner, Dewey Kennedy from Gilliam County Road Department, nominated by Envi Road. Moving forward, the committee will continue this winter to audit our respective CIR and CCPR content on the RoadResource.org website.

Marketing Committee

Executive Summary –

Marketing Committee Members will be asked to attend a minimum of 50% of our meetings.  Attendance and participation are important to complete projects in a timely manner.  Attendance and participation will steer future decisions to add new members to the committee or roll a member off the roster. 

The Marketing Committee continues to work on the development and implementation of strategies to grow the use of ARRA solutions.    The following areas will remain key focus topics:

1. “Why ARRA”
2. Market Outreach
3. Website content review and enhancement; RoadResource.org and ARRA.org
4. Sustainability Message

Summary –

1. Why ARRA
   1. PPT Review – The committee is working to finalize the ARRA Solution Benefit PPT created by Morgan Barnes (CM Services) which used the Marketing Committee’s initial PPT as guidance. The estimated completion is Q4.
   2. ARRA Benefit Videos – Loggy Media quoted ARRA prices for developing short videos for ARRA technologies that briefly show the ARRA solution and then highlights the benefits of that ARRA solution. The quote and concept will be discussed with the ARRA BOD for possible 2025 budgeting purposes.
2. Market Outreach
   1. NACE – ARRA continues to engage NACE. We are “actively” searching for volunteers to help promote ARRA at our booth. NACE is on April 14-17, 2025 in Schaumburg, IL.
   2. Electronic Marketing Document – ARRA’s BOD gave Marketing permission to develop a document outlining how member companies can work directly with ARRA/ CM Services to promote industry news. The document will be presented to the BOD for review before being considered for implementation .The goal is to increase the voice for ARRA member companies and equally increase the following for the association.
3. Website Review - RoadResource.org continues being reviewed for accuracy by the core committees and changes are being made .A future overhaul of ARRA.org is being considered by the BOD.
4. Washington, DC Sustainability – With the election complete, Tracie Taylor/ FP2 can reach back out to the Recycling Caucus soon to identify ways ARRA can support them. We’ll are waiting from feedback from Tracie and Rick Church to identify ways ARRA/Marketing can help meet their needs.

Cold Planing Committee

We had a great meeting at the Recycling Summit with 27 attendees from 14 companies and 3 agencies! 

At the Summit, the committee introduced Rick Andreatos from Pavement Recycling Systems who will be taking over as the committee chair in 2025, and added two new members to the committee (Travis McClung with Cat and Tom Lenger with Astec Industries). 

The committee finalized their update of the cold planing technical section on RoadResource.org and completed work on a 3D milling one-pager (when to use / not to use 3D milling).  Those updates will be posted soon.  The group is also working on finalizing a database of basic cold planing specifications for all 50 US states.  These should be completed in time for the 2025 annual meeting. 

Over the next several months, the committee will discuss embarking on a new project related to creating a message board, database, or similar structure to share information on members’ 3D resources, equipment availability, best practices, etc.

We thank all of our committee members and attendees for a productive year and look forward to the same in 2025!

Sustainability Committee

The ARRA Sustainability Committee continues to collect project data from all ARRA disciplines as well as from non-member contractors as approved by the ARRA Board at their recent Board meeting in Reno, NV.

Work continues on the development of the LCA for each discipline by ARRA’s partner, WPA.

As discussed at the Recycling Summit in Reno, it is not too late to submit data for each discipline, particularly Cold Central Plant Recycling. If ARRA contractors need assistance they can contact co-chair John Rathbun to obtain the worksheet necessary to complete the project data for their specific discipline.

FDR Committee

FDR Committee held a meeting on October 22, 2024 at the Recycling Summit in Reno, NV.  The following items were discussed and continue to be worked on:

• Anti-Trust Statement
• Sustainability participation with WAP – encouraged increased participation.
• Asked for everyone to update/check their company information on ARRA.org as RoadResource.org will be using that information to generate leads.
• The nomination for the ARRA Special Recognition Award was decided upon and will be awarded to: Terrell Hughes/Mario Simms of Henrico Co VA and was nominated by David Stowell of the SE Cement Promotion Association.
• FAA P-207 is being reviewed and comments collected for presentation to the FAA.
• FDR section, The Base Stabilization section and the Soil Stabilization and Soil Modification section of RoadResource.org are all being worked on and updated.
• Asked for equipment photos, both new and historic.
• FDR Brochure has had a few minor edits. The last ones are being worked on for the publisher. Once these last changes are accepted, the brochure will be ready for download. We are currently waiting on the publisher to finish the final edits.
• Asked for ideas on:
  • FHWA Sponsored Webinar topics
  • Future Speakers and topics for ARRA
• Brought up the need for a Current Specification Database for Federal/Provincial/State/Local agency
  • How do we get started?
  • How do we store this information?
  • How do we make this information available?
• Discussed future home of Hybrid Techniques
  • Paver Laid FDR
  • Similar submissions to what the Miller group submitted this year for the FDR/CIR award.
• A “How To Class” for Laboratory/Laboratory Technician Training
  • Content?
  • How would it be tought?