The Honolulu StarAdvertiser and Hawaii News Now recently did a feature on potholes in the City and County of Honolulu (City) – see links and photos below. The City’s Department of Facility Maintenance (DFM) organized a pothole filling demonstration by their crew and a tour of the […]
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The State Asphalt Pavement Associations (SAPA) held their winter meeting on February 5, 2016 at the La Quinta Resort & Club in La Quinta, California. The winter meeting is an all-day affair, starting with breakfast and ending with dinner. HAPI Executive Director Jon Young, attended representing Hawaii […]
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We were honored to have Dr. Adrian Ricardo Archilla, University of Hawaii, College of Engineering as our guest speaker. Dr. Archilla opened his presentation by thanking DFM (use of roads and providing traffic control) and HAPI members (donation of treatments and application) for their significant contributions to the […]
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2015 was the inaugural year of our training program. The four program workshops were attended by close to 226 people from various organization types (see graph below). Of the 226 attendees, 93 were from HAPI member companies. Just over 580 professional development hours (PDHs) were issued. Workshops […]
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Steve Muench, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering was in town during the holidays and generously offered his time to chat with us. Steve has been a great help to our industry. He assisted the City with the 2006 changes to the pavement section that […]
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At a press conference on December 30, 2016, Mayor Caldwell of the City and County of Honolulu, reported that the City had paved 256 lane miles in 2015. This paving is part of the Mayor’s five year plan, that commenced in 2013, to resurface 1,500 lane miles […]
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Click here to go to our channel – Hawaii Asphalt Paving Industry (HAPI) Our channel has videos about our asphalt industry that we have shared with consultants and government agencies. The videos organized in the following playlists: HAPI Member Projects: Asphalt paving and pavement treatment projects in […]
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Click here to follow us on Twitter (HAPI @HawaiiAsphalt) – please check us out. HAPI plans to use Twitter for mainly two purposes: Notices of webinars and other training conducted by: – Hawaii Asphalt Paving Industry (HAPI) – National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) – Asphalt Institute (AI) […]
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See KHON2 story at: http://khon2.com/2015/12/18/city-could-resume-beretania-road-repaving-in-early-2016/ New effort by the City: “We have taken some steps to check earlier in the process and we are going to have during the design phase a lot more potholing and subsurface checks so that we don’t have to stop a contractor […]
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Letter to the Editor, Honolulu StarAdvertiser, December 15, 2015 A Makiki resident wondered if she’ll ever see a road on Oahu that’s pothole-free (“City administration neglecting potholes,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, Dec. 8). While keeping any road free of pukas is challenging, especially with El Niño-driven moisture, the city […]
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