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Construction Materials Engineering & Testing Section (CMET) ExCo Phone Conference

February 9, 2012 Meeting Minutes

Participants: James Kuhn – Chair (Atlantic Testing); George Ata (Solar Testing labs); Steve Bowser (Bowser Morner); Bill Colavecchio (UL); Steve Elliott (Material Testing Consultants); Heather Galage (Advance Testing); Mike Hart (A2LA); Chris McCracken (Advance Testing); Scott McCasland (Atlantic Testing); Dave Savage (CMEC); Bob Uttenweiler (NACLA EO); Greg Schmidt (Geotest); Milt Bush (ACIL CEO); Richard Bright (ACIL COO); & Tony Anderson (ACIL SEO).

1. Call to order:

The Chair called the conference call to order at 2:02 p.m.

2. Introductions:

Members introduced themselves.

3. Antitrust Statement:

Mr. Anderson read the antitrust statement.

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4.1 Review of Minutes of the January 12, 2012 meeting:

Motion to adopt: Mr. Schmidt

Seconded by: Mr. McCasland. Approved unanimously

4.1 Review of tabled Minutes of the November 10, 2011 meeting:

Motion to adopt: Mr. Bowser

Seconded by: Mr. Elliott. Approved unanimously

5.0 Personnel Certification:

Mr. Kuhn has produced a personnel action item list (see attached)

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He went over the planned actions, some of which will be dealt with at the Policies and Practices (P2) Conference in March.

Action: If members have any additions to the personnel certification action items list, would they please send them to either Mr. Kuhn or Mr. Anderson for inclusion.

Mr. Kuhn summarized the initiative for the newer members on the call.  ACIL CMET section is working on an initiative to develop a nationwide technician certification program to reduce or eliminate redundant personnel certification programs and provide a program for States not having any programs. He explained that the North East Transportation Training & Certification Program (NETTCP), has a well-established program that is recognized by Federal Highway. This initiative will also reduce costs for ACIL members. Mr. Bowser added that this program will offer an alternative to the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET), which has been stagnate in its efforts to add a practical portion for the CMET side of their program. Mr. Bush added that the initiative is a key part of the strategic plan as a section anchor program that provides a member benefit as well as generating non-dues income to ACIL.

6. Strategic Plan: Review of Goals:

6.1 Strengthen the relationship between members, prospective members, related trade associations, regulators, and laboratory customers through ACIL programs, meetings and other member services, including advocacy initiatives

6.2 To enhance relationships with all stakeholders through relevant and timely communication. Development of plan

6.3 Create a dynamic information portal to be launched by March 2012 (in time for the Practices and policies meeting)

Mr. Bowser reported that he had done a follow up on the outreach carried out by Board members to members who had not renewed their membership and noted that the list was very short, which was very encouraging. Mr. Bush suggested that there should be a follow up outreach to members by the Board mid year to stay connected with members.

Action: CMET lab leads to be sent to Mr. Anderson.

Action: Mr. Bright to send a communication to the Board asking them to reach out to the members on their contact list to simply “check-in”.

Mr. Bush explained that we want to create a communication with members from the Board, not just when we are interested in collecting dues.

Mr. Bright reported on membership activities and asked for new leads that he could follow and add to the hot prospect list. He thanked those who had contributed to the vendor list prepared by Mr. McCracken. He asked members for some additional information.

Action: Mr. Bright to send to Mr. Anderson the information he requires such as, which vendors do you buy from ?, do you have a higher level of contact than the one on the list ?, can we use the members name in making contact ?, and in confidence roughly how much do you spend with these vendors ?, do you have a good relationship with a particular vendor and would you be able to make an introduction for Mr. Bright?

Action: Mr. Anderson to send out Mr. Bright’s criteria and distribute the list again.

Action: Ms. Horan to add the vendors on the list to the general mailing list for the Policies and Practices meeting and for general mailing communications.

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Mr. Kuhn thanked Ms. Galage, Mr. McCracken and Mr. Smith of Advanced Testing for their work in putting the vendor list together.

7.0 NACLA Outreach to State DOT materials testing engineers

regarding the new FHWA regulations:

Mr. Bush reported on the letter prepared by Mr. Uttenweiler of NACLA which is to be sent out as a joint ACIL/NACLA letter to the list of State DoTs Mr. Savage had provided.

Mr. Uttenweiler stated he had reached out to AASHTO, who are a NACLA member, about the possibility of getting in front of their sub-committee.

Action: Any member who has any comments about the draft letter should get them to Mr. Uttenweiler.

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Action: Mr. Bush and Mr. Uttenweiler to complete the draft joint ACIL/NACLA letter and send out to the State DoTs

Action: Brian Johnson of AASHTO to be invited to the Policy & Practices meeting.

8.0 FAA “Standards for specifying construction of airports” AC 150/5370-10:



Mr. Bush has invited Jeff Rapol to the Policy & Practices meeting.

9.0 Update on Policies and Practices Meeting:

The proposed agenda has been circulated as laid out by the section on previous teleconference calls.

Action: Mr. Leonard to reach out to Mike Rafolowski of FHWA to attend the Policy and Practices meeting.

Mr. Bright reminded members to register for the Policy and Practices meeting

10.0 A.O.B.

Mr. Bush asked members if there were any comments on the draft letter to the Army Corps of Engineers to send to him by the end of the week.

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11.0 Next Conference Call: March 8, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. EST

12.0 Adjournment: 2:42 p.m. EST

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