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McQuillen appointed to Technical Advisory Board
Jay McQuillen, Jr., P.E.
manager of Granite
Construction Company, Southern California Operations, has been elected
to the RPA Technical Advisory Board.
McQuillen is a 1981 Graduate of University of Iowa and
received his M.S.C.E. at Oregon State University. He started his career
with Granite as a Project Engineer in 1986 and became the Nevada
Operations, Area Manager in 1990.
McQuillen moved to the Southern California branch at Indio
in 1992 as the Assistant Regional Manager until his promotion to his
present position in January,
2000.
He was a Co-Op Engineer with the Iowa Department of
Transportation from 1978-79 and a Student Engineer at Shive-Hattery and
Associates from 1979-81. Following his graduation, McQuillen worked at
a Staff Engineer for Northern Engineering and Testing in Boise, Idaho.
From 1985 to 1986 he taught freshman course in Construction Engineering
and Management at Oregon State University while earning his Masters
degree.
McQuillen has been active in AGC in Nevada and California
and was selected by the FHWA to serve as a member of the Expert Task
Group for Asphalt-Rubber Roadway Construction. He is a Board member of
the Oregon State University Construction Education Foundation and a
Member of the University’s Civil Engineering Advisory Committee. He was
inducted into the Council of Outstanding Engineers at OSU in 2000.
McQuillen served as Granite representative on the RPA Board of
Directors from 1993 through 1998, winning election as vice president
that year. He was chairman of the Caltrans/RPA Standing Committee from
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Stonex joins LAW Engineering
Anne Stonex has been named a senior
pavement engineer for the Phoenix branch of LAW Engineering.
James Carusone, asst. vice president, said Stonex will
work with LAW’s national Asphalt-Rubber binder and Superpave clients as
well as being a part of the LAW team managing a multimillion dollar
contract with Caltrans. Dr. Gary Hicks, Professor Emeritus, Oregon
State University is the Caltrans contract leader.
Stonex is a former operations manager with the Northeast
Center of Excellence for Pavement Technology (NECEPT) and the Northeast
Regional Superpave Center at the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute,
Penn State University.
She is a graduate of Arizona State University, receiving
her M.S.E. in 1985, and is currently completing her doctoral studies at
Penn State.
In addition to her work with the Superpave technology at
NECEPT, Stonex conducted the PennDOT Bituminous Plant and Field
Technician Certification program for nearly 3000 public and private
sector personnel since 1997. She was also actively involved in regional
coordination of HMA technology transfer and training activities and
materials, including development of HMA related programs for the Mid
Atlantic Region Technician Certification Program (MARTCP).
She also conducted research projects on various bituminous
paving materials and issues for PennDOT and the Northeast Regional
Pooled Fund Study. Prior to her work in Pennsylvania, Stonex was
affiliated with Western Technologies, Inc. in Phoenix as a materials
engineer. From 1990 to 1994, she was the laboratory director and
materials systems engineer with International
Surfacing, Inc., a pioneering Asphalt-Rubber firm.
Stonex has also been a senior engineer with NTH
Consultants of Michigan and was a research engineer with the New Mexico
Engineering Research Institute at the University of New Mexico.
She is an associate member of TRB and chairs the A2D02
Committee on Characteristics of Nonbituminous Components of Bituminous
Paving Mixtures. She is also a member of the D04 Committee on Road and
Paving Materials of ASTM and chairs the ASTM Subcommittee D04.45
Modified Asphalt Specifications. In addition, she is a member of the
RPA Technical Advisory Board and the Tau Beta Pi and Chi
Epsilon Engineering Honor Society.
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New membership
classification
The RPA Board of Directors has created a new membership
classification for Hot Plant Operators and Contractors who do not
produce A-R Binder.
The new classification, “Non-Blenders,” which has annual
dues of $1,000.00, was created to address the needs of Contractors and
Hot Plant operators in existing and emerging market areas who have an
interest in the Asphalt-Rubber paving industry. For additional
information contact Jeffrey Smith, US membership chairman at
602-421-0732 or international membership chairman, Dr. Jorge Sousa at
805-218-6882.
New assessment structure for crumb rubber producers
The assessment structure for the “Producer” members has
been changed to a flat annual fee of $12,000 for a single plant
operator and $24,000 for multiple plant operators. This replaces the
assessment based on the sale of crumb rubber for use in asphalt
pavement.
Anderson
Elected to
Executive Committee
Jim Anderson, Director of North American Crumb Rubber
Sales and International Systems Sales for Recovery Technologies, Inc.
(RTI) Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, was elected to the RPA Executive
Committee at the Midyear meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. Anderson was
one of five shareholders that founded RTI in 1989. He has a Masters
degree in Business and is a Chartered Accountant (CPA). He has been
involved in the financial management of several manufacturing companies
prior to entering the tire recycling business.
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