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 Fall 2008 Newsletter
It is not too late to register for the 2008 NPHQ Annual Highway Quality Conference. Check out the content of this Conference in this Newsletter. Download your registration form and submit it today. The 2009 Call for Nominations for the 2009 National Achievement Awards is also presented in this newsletter. |
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NPHQ NEWSLETTER (Summer 2008)
The NPHQ Annual Conference is rapidly approaching. This newsletter highlights the credentials of Mr. John Martin, President and CEO of Southeastern Institute of Research, who will deliver the Keynote address on Thursday, November 6 to give the conference a rousing start. Mr. Martin will also deliver the Challenge and Send Off address at the end of the conference on Friday Morning, November 7. Download this Newsletter to find other articles of interest.
Registrations are coming in. Download and send your registration today if you have not done so.
Fall, 2008 Quality Conference Registration Form |
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2007 National Achievement Award
At its 2007 Annual Conference held November 13-14, NPHQ announced the winners in the competition for the 2007 National
Achievement Award. The nominated projects all delivered exemplary quality for the taxpayer investment. The innovative
practices of the seventeen 2007 nominations were showcased in NPHQ's Award video shown at the conference luncheon.
Click here for a press release summarizing the winners projects.
Click on a nomination below for a summary of the accomplishments of each project.
- 2007 National Achievement Award Winners
- Special Recognition for a Structure Project
- Special Recognition for a Small Project
- Gold Level Winners
- Statae Winners
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NPHQ
Newsletter (Spring 2008)
Read highlights from a high-level panel's presentations on the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission's Findings given at the NPHQ Steering Committee's Spring meeting; review the Maryland Quality Initiative's celebration of 15 years of success; learn about the new America's Transportation Awards; consider FHWA's search for up to 6 states to pilot a new project delivery strategy for reconstructing highways and bridges safer, faster, and better; and meet the new member of the NPHQ Steering Committee. |
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NPHQ Newsletter (Winter 2008)
This newsletter provides highlights from NPHQ's November, 2007 Conference held in San Diego, CA; announces the resigning the NPHQ charter (National Policy on the Quality of Highways) on NPHQ program's 15th anniversary; and reports the winners of the NPHQ 2007 National Achievement Awards. It also contains information on the Call for Nominations for the 2008 Making A Difference Awards, the date and location of NPHQ's 2008 Annual Conference, the Transportation Curriculum Coordination Council, on line training opportunities through FHWA's National Highway Institute. and NPHQ's web conference on State Quality Partnerships being planned for this year. |
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NPHQ
Newsletter (Fall 2007)
Inside this issue, you will find the latest information on the NPHQ Fall, 2007 Conference and a conference registration form, a Highways for Life success story related to pavement smoothness, and information on the new technologies being promoted by AASHTO's Technology Implementation Group (TIG). |
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NPHQ
Newsletter (Spring 2007)
This issue features new Steering Committee members, the accomplishments of the major winners of the NPHQ 2006 Making A Difference Awards, and the Call for Nominations for the NPHQ 2007 National Achievement Award. |
Quality Quick Takes, Summer 2008
Highways for Life
NPHQ is pleased to add FHWA's Highways for Life to the NPHQ About Us/Related Sites page. The Highways for Life program is included and funded under the SAFETEA-LU Act. The program's goals are to improve safety, reduce congestion due to construction, and improve highway quality. Demonstration construction projects, technology transfer, technology partnerships, dissemination of information, monitoring and evaluation of program accomplishments, and stakeholder input and involvement are key components of this program. To learn more about this program and the opportunities available through it, please visit the Highways for Life web site.
Indiana Officials Sign Transportation Quality Charter
InsideIndianaBusiness.com Report
3/6/2007 10:50:01 AM
Officials this morning signed the Indiana Partnership for Transportation Quality Charter at the 2007 Purdue Road School. The charter is a cooperative effort by the state's highway industry to keep the roads and highways safe and improve the long-term performance and durability of the state's transportation system. It also will create a program to recognize quality achievement.
Source: Inside Indiana Business
RedVector.com Joins NPHQ, February 14, 2006
Conference Spotlights Best-In-Field, January 12, 2006
2006 Making a Difference Awards Announced, November 2006
Quality Quick Takes,
Summer 2006
Quality Quick Takes,
Winter 2006
Quality Quick Takes,
Fall 2005
Quality Quick Takes, Summer 2005
Quality Quick Takes,
March 2005
Iowa highway team wins 2005 National Achievement
Award; 11 other state team winners announced. (September 2005)
Game-changing
Highway Teams Win NPHQ Awards (February 2005)
The
National Partnership for Highway Quality has announced the
winners of its 2004 "Making
A Difference" Awards.
The awards recognize innovations, practices and teamwork that
raise the bar for roadway performance, safety, and environmental
stewardship. Awards were given in four categories, Breaking
The Mold, Partnering, Riosk Taking, and State quality Initiatives. Click
here to review award winners.
A Concrete Connection
to Highway Quality (June 2004)
The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association Links Performance-
Based Specifications to Customer Satisfaction
by Robert A. Garbini, President,
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association
Driven by Quality (May
2004)
A Partnership of Highway Industry Leaders
by Ted A. Aadland, Company Manager,
Wildish Standard Paving dba F. E. Ward and
Co-Chair of the National Partnership for Highway Quality
See
this article as published in the June 2004 issue of Constructor
magazine:
PDF,
288KB
Quality Quick Takes,
May 2004
Quality Quick Takes,
March 2004
Partnering is a Way of Life (March 2004)
Partnering For Highway Quality
by Stephen Sandherr, Chief Executive Officer,
The Associated General Contractors of America
Quality Quick Takes,
February 2004
Quality Quick Takes,
December 2003
Qualifications and
Quality (December 2003)
Why Certification Matters to the Highway Work
Force
by Mike Clark, General Manager, National Institute for Certification in Engineering
Technologies
Quality "P2" (November
17, 2003) Pavement Preservation: Right Treatment, Right Road,
Right Time
by Bill Ballou, President, Foundation for Pavement Preservation
Construction
magazine (October 2003)
Features the Maryland and North Carolina 2003
NPHQ Quality Award winners.
"Road Work Ahead" (October
17, 2003)
Elevating Safety in Quality-Managed Roadway Projects
by Roger Wentz, Executive Director, American Traffic
Safety Services Association
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Ten
State Highway Teams Win 2003 National Quality Awards
(October 17, 2003)
The National Partnership
for Highway Quality (NPHQ) presented its 2003
awards to ten teams of state departments of transportation,
contractors and designers... (read
more)
News Releases for Individual 2003 Quality Award Winners
America’s
Top “Quality” Roadway Projects
Federal/State Officials and Industry Leaders Announce
2001 National Achievement Award Winners” (November 2001)
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NPHQ
Newsletter (Feb 2004)
"Quality-Centered Research at the Texas Transportation
Institute - A View from the Top", and other stories. |
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NPHQ
Newsletter (Fall 2003)
The Environmental Issue, with features by AASHTO's President,
John Njord, and by Greg Smith, Esq., ARTBA's Director,
Contractors Division and Vice President for Environmental & Regulatory
Affairs. (PDF, 500KB) |
