International Society for Intelligent Construction

iHEEP ISIC Workshop on Oct. 6, 2025
2025-10-06 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | iHEEP, 2101 N Oak St, Myrtle Beach, SC, 29577, United States
The International Society for Intelligent Construction (ISIC) will host a workshop titled “Digital Workflow from Design to Construction for Pavements” at the iHEEP 2025 conference (66th International Highway Engineering Exchange Program conference) in Myrtle Beach, SC, from October 5 to 10, 2025. The agenda is as follows:
Monday (October 6th, 2025) PM (EST)

Time
Topic
Speakers

3:00 PM
Introduction
Dr. George K. Chang (Transtec Group, A Terracon Company)

3:00 PM – 3:25 PM
1 – Milling and Pavement Equipment and the Use of 3D Models
Laikram Narsingh (John Deere Wirtgen Group); Jim Preston (TOPCON)

3:25 PM – 3:50 PM
2 – Geometric and Material As-Built Data Collected by Road Construction Equipment
Laikram Narsingh (John Deere Wirtgen Group); Jim Preston (TOPCON)

3:50 PM – 4:15 PM
3 – Living Models in Asset and Pavement Management Systems with Updates from Machines
Chuck Hixon (Matt McDonald); Tim Kowalski (John Deere Wirtgen Group)

4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
4 – Agency’s Perspective
Rebecca Embacher (MnDOT)

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
5 – Contractor’s Perspective
Scott Fernald (Granite Construction)

5:00 PM
Adjourned

Detailed abstracts for each workshop session, along with speakers’ bios, can be downloaded here. Please register for iHEEP 2025 and reserve your seats for this fantastic workshop now!

ISIC-FHWA Meeting at TRB 2025
2025-01-07 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Washington Convention Center, United States
*** THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO ALL ***
ISIC will have an annual meeting with FHWA at TRB 2025. The following is the current draft schedule. Please mark it on your calendar. More information to come!
January 7, 2025, Tuesday, 11 AM to 12 PM (US Eastern Standard Time)
Washington Convention Center (Room 303), TRB 2025 Annual Meeting
Title: ISIC and FHWA Meeting at TRB
Purpose: Cooperate b/w ISIC and FHWA to advance/promote intelligent construction technologies
Format Hybrid
Agenda
ISIC-FHWA TRB Meeting-Agenda-2025-v2

ISIC 2024 International Conference
2024-09-10 - 2024-09-12 | Double Tree by Hilton Orlando at Seaworld,, 10100 International Dr, Orlando, FL, 32821, United States
The 4th International Society for Intelligent Construction (ISIC) International Conference will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, from September 10 to 12, 2024. The conference theme is “Sustainability through Technology”.

ISIC-FHWA Meeting at TRB 2024
2024-01-09 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Washington Convention Center, United States
The next ISIC-FHWA Meeting at TRB 2024 will be held on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, in Room 155 of the Washington Convention Center from 11 AM to 12 PM (US Eastern Standard Time). Please click this registration link to save a seat and indicate whether you’ll be in-person or remote. The following is the draft agenda.

Transportation Research Board (TRB) 103rd Annual Meeting
2024-01-07 - 2024-01-11 | Washington Convention Center, United States
The ISIC 2024 co-sponsor, Transportation Research Board (TRB), will conduct its 103rd Annual Meeting from January 7 to 11, 2024 in Washington, D.C. We expect the event will attract thousands of transportation professionals from around the world, the meeting program covers all transportation modes, with sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to policymakers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions.

MTC&E 2023 ISIC Track
2023-05-15 - 2023-05-16
The International Society for Intelligent Construction (ISIC) North America Chapter will sponsor an ISIC track during the Minnesota Transportation Conference and Expo (MTC&E) from May 15 to May 16th, 2023, in Minneapolis, MN, USA. The ISIC Track’s theme is “Digital Workflow from Design to Construction“ packed with hot topics by great speakers. Please register now to reserve your seats!

Intelligent Compaction Research Pays Off Webinar
2023-04-18 10:00 - 23:00 (America/Chicago) | webinar
The National Road Research Alliance provides a monthly seminar to highlight the research and related topics that will make an impact on the work done here in the state of Minnesota and around the country. The next Research Pays Off webinar will be at 10AM US CDT, April 18, 2023, on “Evaluation of Levels 3-4 Intelligent Compaction Measurement Values (ICMV) for Soils Subgrade and Aggregate Subbase Compaction” presented by Cesar Tirado of UTEP and George K. Chang of Transtec Group. We would acknowledge the Co-PI, Prof. Soheil Nazarian of UTEP, who had presented the project scope before.
Project webpage: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/mnroad/nrra/structure-teams/intelligent-construction/compaction.html
JOIN THE WEBINAR
There is no need to register. Use the Teams link on the Research Pays Off page to join the webinar: Research Pays Off Webinar Series – NRRA – MnDOT (state.mn.us)
This webinar is an open invitation to join as the topic suits your interests. Feel free to forward this event to anyone else.
ABOUT THE PAST RESEARCH PAYS OFF
For more about Research Pays Off, the upcoming schedule, and links to previous webinar recordings, visit the webpage: Research Pays Off Webinar Series – NRRA – MnDOT (state.mn.us)

Webinar No. 005 – How Veta Leverages Values of Intelligent Construction Technologies
2023-03-30 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago)
We’ll conduct the next ISIC webinar from 9AM to 11AM US CDT (2PM WET, 10PM Beijing Time), March 30, 2023. The topic is “How Veta Leverages Values of Intelligent Construction Technologies”. Veta is a public domain software to view and analyze geospatial data from various intelligent construction technologies (ICT). ICTs are innovative technologies that include the characteristics of perception, analysis, decision-making, or execution that improve efficiencies, qualities, and infrastructure construction. Veta development has been sponsored by the US FHWA and transportation pooled fund studies (TPF) since 2013. Veta currently supports Intelligent Compaction (IC), Paver-mounted thermal profiler (PMTP), dielectric profile systems (DPS), etc. Veta will also support E-Ticketing, Material Delivery Management Systems (MDMS), Ground penetration RADAR (GPR), and other ICTs in the next few years. This webinar will provide a brief history and background of Veta. Speakers from the Department of Transportation (DOT) and contractors will also share their perspectives and demonstrate field case studies on how Veta helps them to leverage the values of IC, PMTP, and DPS to diagnose asphalt paving issues and make timely corrective actions to improve the pavement qualities. Register here (https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/602984700057392732).

ISIC Meeting at TRB 2023
2023-01-11 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
ISIC will have a meeting at TRB 2023 from 11 AM to noon EST, Wednesday, January 11th, 2023. The meeting is for ISIC members and friends to update the ISIC’s 2023 plan and beyond. It’ll be a hybrid meeting at the Washington Convention Center. Meeting registration links will be emailed to all ISIC members. If you are not a member yet, please let us know by using the ISIC online contact form (https://is-ic.org/contact/) to send us your request including names, affiliations, emails, etc.
This is the draft agenda:

ISIC 2022 International Conference
2022-09-06 - 2022-09-09
The next International Conference of the International Society for Intelligent Construction (ISIC 2022) will be held in Guimarães, Portugal, from September 7 to 9, 2022. The theme of ISIC 2022 is “Trends on Construction in the Post-Digital Era.” The historic town center of Guimarães is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2001. The conference will be hosted by our team at the University of Minho. In 2019, ISIC renamed the International Intelligent Construction Technologies Group (IICTG), launched in Guimarães during the 3rd International Conference of Transportation Geotechnics in 2016.
ISIC 2022 will be our third international conference, following the first one of the IICTG in Minnesota, USA, in 2017 and the second one in Beijing, China, in 2019. ISIC 2022 will follow our mission to serve as a unique platform for promoting intelligent construction applications to improve the quality of construction, cost-saving, the resilience of infrastructure from climate changes, and risk reduction. To achieve those goals, a holistic approach is essential from multidisciplinary fields, including civil engineering, construction machinery, electronic sensor technology, survey/testing technologies, information technology/computing, etc. In this digital era, it is our vision to address societal issues for humans’ wellbeing in their physical environments. We anticipate the ISIC 2022 will be well attended by agencies, industries, academics, and consultants in the above fields from all over the world.

ISIC Track of MN Transportation Conference & Expo
2022-05-17 - 2022-05-19
The ISIC North American Chapter will sponsor the next Minnesota Transportation Conference & Expo (MTC&E) with an ISIC Track technical programs at Saint Paul RiverCentre in St. Paul, MN, USA, from May 17 to Match 19, 2022. This event is in-person. ISIC’s involvement:

ISIC track: ISIC NA Chapter will cooperate with the NRRA ICT Team to provide Veta training, milling/paving/compaction 101 sessions, and the latest-&-greatest ICT research/products/solutions!
Vendors’ exhibits and equipment shows: We invite you to participate in the exhibit booths and potentially haul in your equipment.

We will look forward to seeing you at MTC&E in May!
Please register to reserve your seat or register for the exhibit/equipment show.

ISIC and FHWA Meeting at TRB 2022
2022-01-11 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago)
ISIC international and North America Chapter will meet with US FHWA highway to discuss Digital Delivery and Intelligent Construction Technologies from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM US EST, Tuesday, January 11, 2022. The onsite location is room 155 at the Washington Convention Center.
It’s a hybrid meeting. ISIC members and friends can join this meeting either in person or via MS Teams meeting. Please follow the meeting instructions on page 2 of the the agenda file.
The following is the agenda.

Webinar 004 – New Digital As-Built and Project Information Model
2021-07-29 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago)
The International Society for Intelligent Construction (ISIC) will conduct a webinar on “New Digital As-Built or Project Information Model (DAB/PIM)” on July 29, 2021. This topic is a part of the ISIC webinar series including BIM for Pavements, Automation in Construction, etc. Expert speakers from US FHWA, DOTs, and consultants will share their experiences and vision on DAB/PIM. The registration is free. We will provide certificates of 0.2 PDH to participants upon request. Download English flyer. 下载中文简介。

ISIC Webinar Series No. 3 - Introduction to Intelligent Construction Technology
2021-04-01 07:00 - 09:00 (America/Chicago) | webinar
The topic for the ISIC Webinar Series No. 3 will be on the first book of the ICT Book Series “Introduction to Intelligent Construction Technology for Transportation Infrastructure”. See the webinar webpage for further details.

ISIC Update at NRRA ICT Meeting
2021-01-07 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Chicago) | webinar
ISIC will provide a brief presentation for the ISIC update at the next National Road Research Alliance (NRRA) Intelligent Construction Technologies (ICT) team meeting from 10:30AM to 11:30AM US CST on January 7, 2021. The update will be presented by the president of ISIC, Dr. George K. Chang, P.E., (Transtec Group), and the chair of ISIC North American Chapter, Tim Kowalski, P.E., (Wirtgen America).
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Keynote speech on "Intelligent Construction" at SPARC HUB Virtual Conference
2020-11-18 18:45 - 19:45 (America/Chicago) | webinar
Dr. George K. Chang, Transtec Group, and President of International Society for Intelligent Construction (ISIC), will deliver a keynote speech on Intelligent Construction during the Australian SPARC Hub Virtual Workshops at 6:45 PM US CST, on November 18, 2020.

Online Veta Workshop for Thermal Profiling (PMTP)
2020-10-30 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | webinar
The Transtec Group now offers online Veta workshops for Thermal Profiling (Paver-Mounted Thermal Profiles – PMTP). Sign up now for the next hands-on, virtual workshop on October 30, 2020 beginning at 9 AM USA CDT. The workshop will consist of two 55-minute sessions with a 10-minute break in between. The cost to attend is $199 per person. Seats are limited! Register now!

Online Veta Workshop for Intelligent Compaction
2020-10-29 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | webinar
The Transtec Group now offers online Veta workshops for Intelligent Compaction. Sign up now for the next hands-on, virtual workshop on October 29, 2020 beginning at 9 AM USA CDT. The workshop will consist of two 55-minute sessions with a 10-minute break in between. The cost to attend is $199 per person. Seats are limited! Register now!

Automation in Construction
2020-10-08 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago)
This is ISIC Webinar Series 002 – Automation in Construction. A continuous education unit or CEU (2 units) or PDH will be offered to all attendees. Please register now to secure your seats.

NRRA Webinar on Evaluation of Level 3-4 ICMV
2020-09-30 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Chicago)
The NRRA research update on “Evaluation of Level 3-4 ICMV” is rescheduled to be on: Wednesday, September 30, 2020, 10:30 am to 11:30 am, Central Daylight Time, US (Chicago, GMT-05:00). Dr. George K. Chang (Transtec Group and ISIC) and Prof. Soheil Nazarian (UTEP and ISIC) will provide the project update. See the NRRA “Evaluation of Level 3-4 ICMV” webpage for further information about this study.
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ISIC Webinar 001 - BIM for Pavements
2020-07-29 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | webinar
The registration fee is USD $99. It’s free for ISIC members. Please join us as a member for free if you are not a member yet. See further details on the webinar page. Download the English flyer. 下载中文简介 。

AAPA Master Class on Veta Training
2020-07-15 17:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | webinar
The ISIC president, Dr. George K. Chang and his staff will be teaching the AAPA 2020 Master Class on Veta Training.

NRRA Intelligent Construction Technologies - What We Learned
2020-07-08 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Chicago) | webinar
The ISIC president, Dr. George K. Chang, will be moderating the NRRA webinar “Intelligent Construction Technologies – What We Learned”.
“Intelligent Construction Technologies (ICT) and What We Learned” (ICT Team Session 2)
Wednesday, July 8 | 10 – 11:30 a.m.
Register for this webinar
Moderator: George Chang, Ph.D. (The Transtec Group)

State Update: Continuous Asphalt Compaction Assessment using Dielectric Profile Method with Craig Landefeld (Ohio DOT)
Improving Workmanship using the Paver Mounted Thermal Profile Method with Ed Morison (Shelly and Sands)
Florida DOT’s Experience with e-Ticketing with Richard Hewitt (Florida DOT)

AAPA Master Class on Intelligent Compaction
2020-07-08 05:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | webinar
The ISIC president, Dr. George K. Chang, vice-president, Prof. Soheil Nazarian, and technical committee members, Ms. Rebecca Embacher and Dr. Jeffrey Lees will be teaching the AAPA 2020 Master Class on Intelligent Compaction.

ARRB Implementation of Intelligent Compaction in Queensland
2020-07-05 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | webinar
The ISIC Technical Committee member, Dr. Jeffrey Lee, and the ISIC president, Dr. George K. Chang, will be presenting the recent intelligent compaction pilot projects under the NACOE research in Queensland, Australia.
