ICPI Hosts Virtual Canadian PICP Symposium

ICPI along with Calgary, AB, London, ON, and Fredericton, NB hosted a successful Canadian Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavement (PICP) Online Symposium on Wednesday, December 2, 2020.

The free PICP training was offered to government agencies and design professionals and provided tools to design, specify, construction and maintain PICP. Symposium sessions included Municipal Perspective, Site Selection and Design, Construction and Maintenance. Speakers included Bert van Duin, M.Sc., P.Eng., Technical Lead at the City of Calgary Water Resources, David Hein, P.Eng., Robert Bowers, P.Eng., Director of Engineering at ICPI, and Jennifer Drake, P.Eng., Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto. The event had 74 attendees and the registrants received copies of the presentations, a list of available resources and a free copy of the PICP manual.

The event was sponsored by the Canadian Activities Fund. Platinum sponsors included Abbotsford Concrete Products, Basalite, Best Way Stone, Brooklin Concrete Products, Brown’s Concrete Products, Ltd., Expocrete, Fortress, Krete, MASA, Master Builders Solutions, Mutual Materials, Oaks Landscape Products, Permacon, Rekers, Techo-Bloc and Topwerk America. Gold sponsors were ACM Chemistries, Barkman, Bolduc, Rinox and St Marys.