Established in 1986, NCAT has been serving U. S. Federal Highway Administration and associated highway construction companies. It has been dedicated itself to R&D of new materials, new product assessment, design of technical and construction methods to maintain the highway's durability, safety and economical efficiency.
In the course, Vice President Cao Rongji and Vice Director Ling Chen showed the delegation of NCAT around the “National Engineering Laboratory of New-type Highway Materials”. In the exchange meeting, Yan Jinhai, Vice Engineer in Charge from the JSTI Highway Office introduced its technical researches in the field of highway engineering. NCAT Director Dr. Randy West and Chief ResearcherDr. Nam Tran also introduced NCAT, the design methods of asphalt mixture in U. S., the pavement maintenance countermeasures, the current application and prospect of regeneration technologies in U. S. Both parties carried out wide exchanges in terms of the topic.
After the meeting, Vice President Cao Rongji and NCAT Director Dr. Randy West have achieved preliminary intention of carrying out exchanges and cooperation in terms of talent cultivation, meeting convening, new pavement materials, design methods of mixtures and maintenance technologies and so on in the future.