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Are you ready to rock?

 

We can’t hear you! This holiday season, the rockers at APTech are here to crank our annual thank-you letter up to eleven. Not only will we play you some of the hits from our year, but we also want to thank you for your support. We simply wouldn’t be where we are today without our clients, colleagues, and friends.

So, throw on your favorite leather jacket, dust off those old 8-tracks, and bust out the Aqua Net—the APTech band is hitting the road on a nationwide thank-you tour, and you’ve got a backstage pass! Let the good times roll!


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Meet our new band members!

Without John, Paul, George, and Ringo, we wouldn’t have the Beatles. Likewise, the APTech supergroup wouldn’t be the same without our bandmates, and we were amped up to add many more members this year.

Carrie Brown, MSML, shreds in our Reno office as a Subject Matter Expert for training development and as the Director of the Nevada Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP). Ben Lederman, Joe Cox, and Brian Feighan joined the band as Engineering Associates, while rock legends Mark Woods, P.E. and Derek Tompkins, PhD, P.E. signed on as Senior Engineers. Morgan Miller returned to us for an encore performance as Senior Accountant. Jacob Sweeney and Oleksii Husakov are rocking out as Engineering Technicians. Cayden Bergschneider is living life in the fast lane as our Graphic Designer, and with Lilia Dobos as our new Technical Editor, you’ll never think our deliverables need more cowbell. Last but not least, we were thunderstruck when Nicole Slaboch rounded out our group as the new Training Manager.

This just goes to show we’re no motley crüe. With all these new bandmates, we can put on performances with even higher production value for fans like you. And if you think the APTech band is done growing, you’ve got another thing coming!

Smells like Family Spirit

When we’re not on the long and winding road presenting to sold-out conferences, delivering legendary pavement trainings, or performing field inspections, APTech bandmates feel sweet emotions spending time with friends and family.

Many APTech babies made their worldwide debut this year, including Arturo Espinoza-Luque’s daughter Victoria, Jeremy Birkey’s son Jason, Luis Sibaja’s son Mariano, Steve Kunkler’s son Jackson, Trent Montgomery’s son Lucas, Max Grogg’s grandson Ezra, and Mark Gardner’s granddaughter Ivy. The next generation of APTech rockers is going to top the charts!

Other APTechers went from solo acts to duets—Tanvir Quasem tied the knot with his wife Saba, while Claire Duewer became engaged to her fiancé Matthew. That’s a whole lotta love!

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Reelin’ in the Years (at APTech)

Some music just gets better with time. In that fashion, several APTechers enjoyed milestone anniversaries this year. Jordan Hoekwater, P.E., Peter-Paul Dzwilewski, P.E., Bill Weiss, P.E., and Jill Miller all celebrated 10-year jam sessions at APTech. Prashant Ram, P.E., has been rocking out for 15 years, and Gen Long, P.E., LEED AP has been engineering hits at APTech for over 20 years!

We are grateful for these once in a lifetime talents who have been takin’ care of business for our clients for so many years.

 

Celebrate Good Times

We added several accomplishments and industry contributions to the APTech repertoire this year. Spanning all genres of pavement engineering and transportation asset management, some of these hits include:

  • Our research into pavement sustainability and resilience. The APTech team continued our investigations of the impacts of wildfires on pavements and ways to mitigate their negative effects. We also made updates and improvements to the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) LCA Pave tool, helping agencies assess, benchmark, and communicate the environmental impacts of pavement construction and associated activities.

  • Our equity initiatives with the FHWA. These collaborations put equity considerations in the spotlight when it comes to investment decision-making, ensuring communities benefit fairly from publicly funded capital improvement projects.

  • Expanding our statewide airport pavement management system (APMS) territory. Maine was the latest to join our stellar lineup of statewide APMS clientele, bringing the grand total to thirty-one states served since we started the show.

  • The EDGE’s sold-out nationwide tour. Our automated data collection powerhouse collected pavement and asset data for dozens of cities, counties, and airports from coast to coast this year. Will EDGE visit your city next?

  • Remixing our technological solutions. We made major upgrades to IDEA, our interactive pavement management data visualization tool, including making it WCAG 2.1 compliant, incorporating an Aircraft/Pavement Classification Rating (ACR/PCR) map feature to view structural capacity and assess potential restrictions for aviation clients, and integrating automated collection data and imagery for both airports and roads. Our explorations into the use of drone technology and machine learning for condition surveys also topped the charts.

One way or another, our mission is to provide our clients with the solutions needed to improve pavement systems and performance. We are happy to oblige any request—even Free Bird!

 
an album cover titled APTech's greatest hits flies off a bright green record, which then drops onto a turntable and starts spinning.
 
 
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Everybody’s Working for the Weekend 

APTech boys and girls just want to have fun, so it’s a good thing we found plenty of reasons to paint the town red this year! Tailgates, cookouts, and monthly birthday celebrations had us walking on sunshine with our coworkers. The party didn’t stop there, though. We rock ‘n’ rolled all night with clients and friends at many conferences, including receptions we hosted throughout the year at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, the ACC/AAAE Airport Planning, Design and Construction Symposium, the NASAO Convention and Tradeshow, and the SWIFT conference, to name a few. If you made it to one of our get-togethers, thank you! We’re glad you could jam with us.

APTechers also found time to take a walk on the philanthropic side this year. This summer, a bake sale fundraiser poured some sugar on our usual afternoon pick-me-ups and benefitted our local humane society. 2023 also saw the success of our third annual chili cookoff, with proceeds from the event once again contributing to breast cancer research. The recipe from two-time champ Jeremy Birkey was simply the best! We also sponsored and participated in our local Buddy Walk to support the Down Syndrome Network, and we continue to support local non-profit organizations like the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club, Crisis Nursery, and Cunningham Children’s Home.

 

Thank You
and Goodnight!

 

From all the headbangers here at APTech, we want to thank you for another awesome year that’s sure to go down as one of the classics. You’ve been a wonderful audience!

Bonus Track!

We jammed 23 references to classic rock songs into this year’s holiday letter.
Can you find them all? Let us know!

Double Bonus Track!

Just can’t get enough of this rock ‘n’ roll fun? We curated a Spotify playlist of classic rock songs centered around themes of pavement, highways and roads, aviation, and other transportation infrastructure. These traffic jams are perfect for any road trip or layover you may find yourself on this holiday season.

 
 
 
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