AGENDA

DRAFT AGENDA

Times subject to change.  Breakout sessions are subject to being replaced by Educational sessions.

Monday, August 25, 2025, 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Golf Tournament | Oak Ridge Country Club

Oak Ridge Country Club

Monday, August 25, 2025, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
MAASTO - SCOHT 
Monday, August 25, 2025, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
MnDOT Safety Experience Tour: Safety on the Job

Capacity 35 people  

$40 Fee covers cost of transportation. 

Safety first, safety always. Safe and secure operating environments save lives, prevent injuries, increase employee morale and productivity, cultivate trust, and enable the efficient and effective use of transportation facilities, services and technologies. During this tour you’ll meet with subject matter experts to learn about the different equipment MnDOT uses to keep employees safe on the job. Find out how MnDOT is using a mobile slip simulator to reduce employee slips, trips and falls. You’ll have an opportunity to try it out. Check out the Road Doctor Survey Van to learn about its nondestructive road survey technologies to gather and visualize pavement data. Learn how MnDOT uses high rescue angle equipment to train for different rescue scenarios. More equipment will be onsite to see. 

Bike Tour: Downtown Minneapolis  (6.5-mile ride)

Capacity 20 people  

$35 Fee covers cost of bike and helmet rental. 

This tour features stops at MnDOT involved/led projects in Downtown Minneapolis. Projects include the recently completed Third Ave Bridge project (MnDOT led), the  Stone Arch Bridge project (MnDOT led), and innovative North Loop Green partnership project. These projects highlight MnDOT’s transportation vision where Minnesota’s multimodal transportation system maximizes the health of people, the environment and our economy.  

The Third Avenue Bridge is significant as the last major reinforced-concrete Melan arch bridge constructed in the Twin Cities. The Stone Arch Bridge has been through about half a dozen projects to expand, repair, or rehabilitate the structure over its almost 140-year history. The North Loop Green is an activation project under I-94 ramps adjacent to the C Ramp and Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins, and operating as a public-private partnership. A stop at the ABC Parking Ramp also makes time to see the 100-foot hand-painted Prince mural.

Light Rail Construction Project Tour: Green Line Extension  

Capacity 35 people  

$40 Fee covers cost of transportation. 

The METRO Green Line Extension is anticipated to begin revenue operations in 2027. As of December 2024, the project is over 80% complete. It will operate on 14.5 miles of double track from downtown Minneapolis through the communities of St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Minnetonka, and Eden Prairie, connecting to the existing Green and Blue Lines and the communities of St. Paul and Bloomington. This tour will focus on the Kenilworth Corridor to Cedar Lake Channel. The Kenilworth Tunnel is the project’s most complex structure due to its challenging soil conditions and its proximity to buildings, freight lines, and trails. The tunnel is anticipated to be structurally complete in spring of 2025, with electrical and communications systems being installed in the tunnel in 2025 and 2026. The tour will provide a compelling overview of how transit projects come together during the critical systems testing phase and highlight the engineering challenges of building in tight spaces, managing right of way impacts to property owners, and the reconstruction of a historic Works Progress Administration (WPA) cobblestone wall in the Cedar Lake Channel. Tour is a partnership between MnDOT and Metropolitan Council. 

Monday, August 25, 2025, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Registration 
Monday, August 25, 2025, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Exhibitor Move In 
Monday, August 25, 2025, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Research Lab Tours: University of Minnesota

Capacity 30 People 

$40 covers cost of Transportation 

The tour will include visits to two labs that support transportation-related research projects at the University of Minnesota. The labs are part of the College of Science and Engineering and are home to engineering experts who bring an interdisciplinary approach to solving today’s problems.  

The facility provides a powerful tool for investigating the effects of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other extreme events on large structural components up to several stories tall. The tour will begin at the Multi-Axial Subassemblage Testing (MAST) Laboratory, the largest test system of its kind in the world.  The tour will conclude at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL), located on the banks of the Mississippi River, a unique and world-class research space for all things water… and then some. The lab addresses major societal challenges associated with fluid flow problems in the natural environment and in renewable energy applications.

Monday, August 25, 2025, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
AGC Caucus Meeting 
Monday, August 25, 2025, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Welcome Reception 
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
MAASTO Board of Directors Breakfast Meeting (Invitation only) 
Breakfast (Exhibit Hall) 
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Registration 
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 9:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Opening General Session 
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
BREAK 
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch (Exhibit Hall) 
AASHTO/ARTBA/AGC Joint Committee Lunch (Invitation only) 
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Breakout Sessions (4) 
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Breakout Sessions (4) 
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
BREAK 
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Breakout Sessions (4) 
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Vendor Reception 
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 6:30 PM
Sponsor Hosted Receptions 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Chief Engineers Breakfast 
ARTBA Engineering Issues Breakfast (Invitation Only) 
FHWA Division Administrators Breakfast 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Registration 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Breakfast (Exhibit Hall) 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Breakout Sessions (4) 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Breakout Sessions (4) 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
BREAK 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Breakout Sessions (4) 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Lunch 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Breakout Sessions (4) 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 1:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Exhibitor Tear Down 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Breakout Sessions (4) 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
BREAK 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Closing General Session 
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Host State Night Reception