Two ProVAL workshops (Advanced and QC/QA) will be offered at Sheraton Gateway Hotel – Atlanta Airport during the RPUG 2009 meeting. The RPUG 2009 meeting agenda is posted and the registration has just started.

To register for ProVAL workshops, you’ll need to first register for the RPUG 2009 meeting and then select the workshops you’d like to attend. The online registration on the ProVAL website will provide further information for attendees.

The ASTM International standard for profile data specification, based on the ProVAL PPF spec 1.02, has been published in the ASTM annual book since 2008.

If you implement a program to generate PPF data files, you can use ProVAL to validate your implementation.

Any questions? Please contact us.

Dr. George K. Chang, one of the ProVAL developers and workshop instructors, won an honorary 2007 Kummer Lecture Award from ASTM International.

A little information on the H.W. Kummer Lecture Award from ASTM International’s website:

Established in 1968 by Committee E17 on Vehicle-Pavement Systems in honor of Hartwig W. Kummer, who contributed significantly to the advancement of vehicle-pavement systems through personal accomplishments and by stimulating research and encouraging the pursuit of knowledge.

ASTM also issued a press release on its website, and we’ve posted a pdf version of it here.

Here are the abstract and presentation slides of Dr. Chang’s award-winning lecture, Quantifying the Impact of Jointed Concrete Pavement Curling and Warping on Pavement Roughness.  A full paper and a video of a presentation of the same title was published in SURF 2008.

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