Blair Barnhardt, APM

Blair Barnhardt is an award winning National Highway Institute Certified Instructor for Federal Highways Administration (FHWA), National Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Trainer, MTC StreetSaver® Pavement Management Software Tech Transfer Trainer in the San Francisco Bay, California, United States area, and an American Public Works Association (APWA) Carl Vinson Institute Instructor. He is also prequalified for MicroPAVER™ Pavement Management consulting work for the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) in California, United States.

I love serving this circle of pavement managers worldwide and as the host of Driving America For Better Roads, I’ve learned the importance of gaining the public’s trust, while educating agencies across the globe on how to do more with less, while increasing their authority, expertise, and income.”

- Blair Barnhardt, APM

Mr. Barnhardt is a published author in every major industry trade publication including FHWA Public Roads, Asphalt Contractor, Better Roads, Army Engineer, Roads & Bridges and World Highways. Most recently he designed and delivered two comprehensive online certificate programs for Auburn University and University of Kansas. He is also currently designing and delivering instructor led training for the Northwest Environmental Training Center (NWETC), a non-profit organization in Washington State as well as and a series of online webinars for UC Berkeley ITS Tech Transfer.

Mr. Barnhardt is one of the few individuals in this nation with direct experience orchestrating the work for all three sub-disciplines in the FHWA/ARRA (Asphalt Recycling & Reclaiming Association) Basic Asphalt Recycling Manual (BARM) textbook. In addition to being one of the writers and contributing editors for the BARM 2012 textbook revision with the Pavement Recycling and Reclaiming Center at Cal Poly California, he also served as a subject matter expert for the NHI In-Place Recycling Technologies course revisions for Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) and AP Tech with Katie Zimmerman. (Mr. Barnhardt has taught each and every delivery of the original version of this NHI Workshop since it’s inception many years ago)

With over 30 years of heavy civil construction background, with the latter 17 years of that spent training owner agencies and graduate students at university level technical training programs, Mr. Barnhardt is also a former officer of an Atlanta based asphalt in-place asphalt reclamation firm. While at that firm he routinely bid upwards of 50 million dollars in-place asphalt recycling and pavement preservation work per year. What makes Mr. Barnhardt unique to the International Pavement Management Association is his ability to juggle three distinct hats all at the same time, academia, contracting and consulting.

When not in the classroom teaching other agencies how to perform the work, his crews can also be found training agency personnel on how to implement the Three Legged Stool approach to pavement management and/or providing expert pavement management services with his own firm, The Barnhardt Group. In this capacity they provide expert pavement management with all of the most popular pavement management products including MTC StreetSaver®, US Army Corp of Engineers/APWA MicroPAVER™ across America. Further, his firm helps agencies to select the most cost effective eco-efficient rehabilitation strategies based on their budgets, decision tree and pavement coring results from his firm.

We believe that each and every individual deserves the privilege to continue their personal education and career path advancement. However, we also understand that not everyone has the same drive and initiative to stay up 21 hours a day and work 7 days a week, so we cannot guarantee any personal success as a result of taking this program with us. Our program takes a lot of work and discipline just like any worthwhile endeavor or professional continuing education program. Please do not enroll in our programs if you believe in getting further in your career without sweating a little bit, and learning new stuff as we ONLY want SERIOUS people who want to add value to their agency and workplace. Further we wish for those same people who choose this path to become GREAT DISCIPLES of the THREE LEGGED STOOL and carry the torch for many generations to come. See we are revolutionizing the way we manage our pavements in this world, our vision will outlive us, and so will the tremendous results as you help us to reach out to the world and serve up this message of the THREE LEGGED STOOL.

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