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RMACES 50TH ANNIVERSARY

Feb. 7-8 National Western Complex, Denver rmaces.org/

This year’s Rocky Mountain Asphalt Conference & Equipment Show is a special one as the Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association (CAPA) celebrates its golden anniversary. The state show typically attracts over 1,000 attendees. When combined with speakers, exhibitors and volunteers, they host an event of over 1,300 people every February in Denver, with additional pomp and circumstance at the annual “Best in Colorado” awards banquet.

The RMACES website shares the show’s history, starting in the early 1970s: “In early 1973, Charlie Owen, regional engineer from the Asphalt Institute of Chicago, contacted Walt Howat from the Asphalt Institute of Denver, to organize a seminar for the Western Mountain State Region.” The story goes, Howat contacted various asphalt industry representatives in the area to serve on an organizing committee and they developed a program for the first Asphalt Pavement Seminar. The seminar committee consisted of representatives from a host of sponsoring agencies: • Asphalt Institute (AI); • Colorado State University (CSU); • U.S. Forest Service; • Federal Highway Administration (FHWA); • Colorado Division of Highways; • Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Wyoming; • University of Wyoming (UW); • Colorado Contractors Association (CCA); • Wyoming State Highway Department; and • the National Park Service.

Would you believe the 1.5-day seminar had a registration fee of $19 back then? The fee went up to $21 by 1981, according to the website. “For the first 24 years, the event was known as the CSU Asphalt Paving Conference. The early years of the conference centered on asphalt industry suppliers, producers and other members of the Asphalt Institute. In addition, public sector agencies at the Federal, state, and local level were encouraged to attend and participate.”

Over the years, a host of industry experts have participated in the conference, sharing knowledge and best practices with the asphalt world. The site lists some of the big names readers will recognize. In the 1990s, paving and compaction experts Chuck Deahl from Bomag Americas and John Ball of Top Quality Paving & Training teamed up to offer down-to-earth how-to presentations to standing-room-only audiences year after year. It’s the kind of content the conference strives to offer to this day, teaming up with speakers to ensure attendees walk away with good education to improve their bottom line.

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