Welcome to Webinar on Accelerated Bridge Construction Featured Presentation: 2012 Domestic Scan on ABC Connections Findings & Recommendations Sponsored by Center for Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) Center at Florida International University Website: abc.fiu.edu June 14, 2012 – 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern

Webinar Agenda ABC Announcements(10 minutes) Featured Presentation (35 minutes) 2012 Domestic Scan on ABC Connections Findings & Recommendations Alex Bardow, P.E. Director of Bridges and Structures, MassDOT Question and Answer(15 minutes) Please post your questions in the chat box

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Upcoming FHWA Events/Activities 2013 ABC Conference, Minneapolis, MN Date TBD PBES/ABC Regional P2P Exchanges To date: SW Region, Feb. 2012; Mid-North Region, May 2012 East Region July 30 – Aug. 3, 2012 Boston, MA North West Region Date TBD, Washington State South East Region Date & Location TBD

Upcoming FHWA Events/Activities PBES Workshop – Lateral Slide Projects: September 11, 2012 Ames, IA Maryland SHA - SPMT Showcase: September 15-16, 2012 Baltimore, MD UHPC Alternative Haunch Report FHWA Publication No.: FHWA-HRT NTIS Accession No.:PB Tech Brief Link Full Report Link

Upcoming Industry Events 2012 National Bridge Conference – Nashville, TN September 29 – October 3, 2012 Sponsored by Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) ASBI 24 th Annual Convention – Aventura, FL October 29-30, 2012 Sponsored by American Segmental Bridge Institute (ASBI) Design-Build Conference & Expo – New Orleans, Louisiana November 7-9, 2012 Sponsored by Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA)

Upcoming Industry Events International Road Federation (IRF) Global Road Achievement Awards ► advancing roads and transport Award nominations deadline: July 15,

2013 TRB Annual Meeting January 13-17, 2013 Washington, DC Sponsored by Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies Timeline for Paper Submission: June 1, 2012 Paper Submission website opened August 1, 2012 Deadline for submission of the full paper in PDF format tGuides.aspx

Upcoming 2013 Industry Events 2013 Structures Congress – Pittsburgh, PA May 2-4, 2013 Sponsored by ASCE/Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Third Orthotropic Bridge Conference – Sacramento, CA June 25-29, 2013 Sponsored by Sacramento Section of ASCE Abstracts due September 15, 2012 Submit abstracts by to

Upcoming International Events 5 th Australian Small Bridges Conference – Queensland November 19-20, 2012 Sponsored by CommStrat Australia 1st International Highway Technology Summit: Innovative Approaches and Best Practice – Beijing, China April 17-19, 2013 Sponsored by China Highway and Transportation Society Co-Sponsored by Transportation Research Board word-maximum abstracts due June 15, 2012 Submit abstracts to Nina Guan at

NCHRP Approved 2013 ABC Projects NCHRP Project 12-95: “Design Guidelines for Connection Details of Adjacent Precast Concrete Box Beam Bridges” $500,000 NCHRP Project 12-96: “Precast Full Depth Deck Panel Concept - Possible Next Generation Solution” $400, panel nominations deadline: June 15, For more information, contact: Waseem Dekelbab, NCHRP

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Next Webinar Thursday, July 26, 2012 (1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern) Featured Presentation ABC Short-Span Low-Volume Bridge Types & Lessons Learned – Part 1: Steel by Bill McEleney, Director National Steel Bridge Alliance To register, visit

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2012 ABC Continuing Education Workshop The ABC Center is sponsoring a 1.5-day workshop providing in-depth coverage of subjects related to ABC Date: December 5-6 (1 pm start on Dec 5 and end 5:00 p.m. on Dec 6) Location: FIU campus, Miami, Florida Your input is requested ( to Topics of interest Potential interest in attending Other suggestions

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