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Page 54 • January 25, 2023 • www.constructionequipmentguide.com • Paving Section • Construction Equipment Guide ACPA Names Jackson, Mack, Cavalline, Folkestad as 2022 Award Recipients

ACPA from page 44

Harold Halm Presidential Award

The Harold Halm Presidential Award is named in honor of ACPA’s first president, and this prestigious recognition is awarded at the discretion of ACPA’s president to an individual who has made significant contributions to the concrete pavement industry.

Jim Mack, director of market development at CEMEX, received the Presidential Award this year for his tireless advocacy for the concrete pavement industry and his unparalleled work in the sustainability space. Mack is a past-chairman of ACPA and currently serves on multiple working groups across the industry, including technical co-chair overseeing pavement research at MIT.

An active member of the American Concrete Institute, Portland Cement Association and the National Ready Mix Concrete Association, he is wellknown in agency circles, particularly with Federal Highway Administration and Federal Aviation Administration.

Mack’s long history of success and ongoing efforts are a testament to his dedication, grit, and determination to advance sustainability in the concrete pavement industry.

Marlin J Knutson Award for Technical Achievement

The Marlin J Knutson Award for Technical Achievement is named in honor of the second chief executive of ACPA and recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to advancing the development and implementation of technical innovations — as well as best practices — for the design and construction of concrete pavements.

This year’s recipient is Tara Cavalline, of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Cavalline has brought about substantial developments in quality control of concrete paving and improved the use of recycled and waste materials. She also has been a key researcher and contributor to the Performance Engineered Mixtures advancement effort to ensure concrete durability and performance life.

Cavalline was a leading contributor to the practitioner’s guide for recycling concrete pavements, which the National Concrete Pavement Technology Center published. In addition to her research efforts, she is an award-winning educator and has taught courses on materials, quality assurance in construction, sustainability, and environmental engineering. Her research and the practical application thereof have been of tremendous value to the concrete pavement industry, helping bring about quality, durability, and sustainability improvements. Outstanding Promoter Award

The Outstanding Promoter Award is given annually to a person who has made significant contributions through promotion efforts or programs to advance the awareness, specification, and/or placement of concrete pavements. This recognition is reserved for those who have been on the front

lines making a difference for our industry. Angela Folkestad is the executive director of the Colorado/Wyoming Chapter of ACPA and was selected as the 2022 Outstanding Promoter Award winner. Folkestad is a dedicated advocate for concrete pavement in Colorado and Wyoming and a nationally recognized leader on sustainability issues. Colorado is typically an early adopter of new pavement techniques and technologies, and her work, first as a pavement engineer with the Colorado/Wyoming Chapter and now as the executive director of the chapter, has been crucial in shaping the trajectory of paving in the state. During the last five years, she has been at the forefront of utilizing concrete overlays, portland limestone cement, in-place recycling, and performance-engineered mixtures. Gordon Smith presents the Hartmann-Hirschman-Egan Award to Steve Jackson. “Angela has become a leader in the field of sustainability and low-carbon concrete,” one of the nominators stated. “She represents the industry at a very high level and is recognized as an expert in this topic. She willingly attends meetings and travels all over the country in an effort to help the industry establish where we sit nationally on this topic.” In addition to advancing national conversations, her Colorado/Wyoming Chapter has flourished. Folkestad is an active member of the Chapter/State Executive Committee, including a recent chairmanship, and is always willing to lend her expertise and efforts to fellow Chapter/State Executives. She is an invaluable asset to the concrete pavement industry in her local states and on the national stage. 

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SANY from page 12

All but one of his SANY mini-excavators comes equipped with a hydraulic thumb attachment.

“The last one I bought had a [closed cab] and a quickattach bucket,” he said. “It is my personal unit because I am on the phone all the time and need to use my Bluetooth. The rest of them have an open canopy.”

The septic tank digs that the construction company performs use the SANY SY35U skid steers, according to Whitley, while the wheel loader is primarily used in clearing land for Deer Run Farm.

He added that Buffalo Creek prefers to own its rolling stock and, shrewdly, has been known to lease its machinery to many of the subcontractors who work for the company.

“Because I often have a tough time finding employees in this economy, sometimes I will lease my mini-excavators to my subs,” he said. “Doing so tends to buy me a little more loyalty from them, too.” Whitley’s Three Companies Intertwine

Earlier in the fall, the SANY SY215 was heavily involved in clearing a more than 300-acre piece of property that Deer Run Farm had bought. Approximately two-thirds of the land was forest, Whitley said, but the wheel loader and its grapple bucket has proven more than capable in getting the job done.

“We also have another 70 acres we will be clearing,” he said recently. “The product that will come from all that land will be row-crop farming. At some point, I will be selling that property to a farmer and financing it for a 10- to 30-year term [through Buffalo Creek Investments].”

Whitley’s investment company buys land that he knows a farmer is willing to work, and Deer Run Farm will harvest and sell the property’s timber before partnering with the farmer, he said.

“It is a little different for each farmer, but Buffalo Creek Investment will lend them money to buy seeds, fertilizer and cover their other input costs,” Whitley said. “Deer Run Farm will then come in and start clearing the adjoining properties to their land because farmers today prefer large, single blocks of property — instead of 50 or 100 acres, they want 500 acres. Buffalo Creek Investments sometimes goes ahead and buys the land that a farmer may want to buy in the future. We can start the development work to turn it into land suitable for farming. Our endgame is to either build a stronger relationship with farmers or finance the project financing for them.”

Quite by accident, Whitley and his son became new-home developers and builders after he had provided a bridge loan to the owner of a large property at Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. Later, the owner lost the property through foreclosure in 2012, and Chad Whitley, as it turned out, took possession of it, he said.

“It is a big development of 153 homes,” Whitley said. “We cleared it, built the homes, and did the lending. I became a developer out of a trial-by-fire, not by desire. At that time, I had little building experience and absolutely no developing experience, but I had a good working knowledge of lending. I hired general contractors to build it, and today it is a great development. But that was one I had to earn.” Diversification Keeps in Step With Economy

At one time, Whitley himself owned an equipment business, which distributed, among other things, small compact diesel machines to landscapers.

“Right before I sold that company, I got into lending people money for equipment and to buy land,” he said. “We worked with a lot with farmers. I took the money from the sale of that business and turned it into land and real estate lending. That also helped grow our farm assets quite a bit.”

Although Whitley has already expanded beyond his lending business by starting both construction and farm-based firms, he said he is still on the lookout for more growth opportunities.

“With the economy the way it is right now, I am trying to diversify so we can switch gears depending on what is happening,” he said. “Now, I can go from the construction business to new home building to land clearing to working with farmers. Most of the time, construction and agriculture work like a seesaw because from what I have seen over the years, when construction goes down, the farming business goes up, and vice-versa. I am trying to position myself so that when the economy changes, I can switch gears to whichever business is growing the fastest at that time.”