Audrey Copeland, president and CEO of the National Asphalt Pavement Association, spoke with ENR’s transportation editor Aileen Cho at CONEXPO-CON/AGG earlier this month about sustainable pavements and encouraging more women to join the industry. After seven years with the Federal Highway Administration, Copeland joined NAPA in 2012, growing the engineering team and securing $2 million in federal funds to advance technologies such as warm-mix asphalt.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.