Advancing the asphalt pavement industry through Leadership, Stewardship, and Member Engagement, while working toward a sustainable transportation infrastructure that paves the way for thriving communities and commerce.
Meeting challenges & making more
Audrey Copeland
President & CEO
A productive asphalt pavement industry in 2025 celebrated big successes while setting the stage for additional highway investment in the future as the current surface transportation funding levels draw closer to their expiration.
With that in mind, NAPA and its members devoted even more time and resources toward engaging with and educating members of Congress on the role smooth asphalt pavements play in connecting communities and commerce.
With your help hosting lawmakers at asphalt plants, mix labs, manufacturing facilities and work sites, we enhanced our presence on Capitol Hill with an eye toward making investments into our nation’s roads that reflect today’s economic realities and that includes considerations for work zone safety costs.
We continued our pursuit of efficient asphalt production through a first-of-its-kind event, The Road Forward International Summit, that brought best practices from across the globe together for discussions on sustainable asphalt pavements.
The Airport Asphalt Pavement Technology Program (AAPTP) also reached new heights, with the release of the much-anticipated new edition of the Asphalt Paving Handbook, complete with a video series that illustrates many of the practices within the resource.
Pat Nelson
NAPA 2025 Chairman
Lehman-Roberts, a Granite Co.
Over the summer, NAPA leadership engaged with other trade associations on conversations about industry overlap and outlook and ultimately came away with an agreement to continue to cooperate where appropriate with no major changes. “The collaboration we saw from NAPA on the Association Alliance project was extraordinary,” said McKinley Advisors President & CEO Jay Younger. “It was a true privilege to work alongside such an effective and principled leader. Audrey and her team brought a consistent, clear-eyed focus on the NAPA mission and member value to the process.”
We met with many members on the largest ever World of Asphalt trade show floor, as well as through advocacy events like Hill Day. Some members even stopped by the office in Greenbelt to get a behind-the-scenes look at how we work for you beyond the efforts that make the headlines.
We challenged ourselves in 2025 to meet the moment, and you said, “Challenge accepted.” Thanks for helping us shepherd this great association forward.
Members Strengthened their Voices in 2025
NAPA members engaged with the experts and decision-makers that drive the discussions on the future of the asphalt pavement industry ahead of the expiration of the current surface transportation bill in 2026.
Meeting with Key Decisionmakers
Hill Day in September was just the tip of the iceberg. NAPA members hosted a record-setting total plant and site tours in 2025.
NAPA PAC Grew its Impact on Capitol Hill
Making NAPA PAC a well-known entity in Washington, D.C. was top of the priority list as lawmakers began penning the framework for what could replace the surface transportation funding bill that expires in 2026.
NAPA PAC raised more than $200,000 in 2025 – quintupling the annual contributions from as recently as 2023. Thanks to this enhanced generosity and engagement, NAPA now has the resources to support and grow our industry champions throughout Capitol Hill.
This momentum is peaking at just the right moment to allow NAPA’s team of advocates to open doors and advance new opportunities, increasing NAPA’s engagement on and off Capitol Hill. We hope to achieve a 2-year goal between $450,000-$500,000 each Congressional cycle – elevating NAPA PAC to a new stratosphere of political support.
As NAPA PAC continues to grow and influence, our Team has further streamlined communications to our PAMC and Legislative Committees. Over the last year, we’ve established a cadence of timely communications including:
- our Annual and Midyear Committee meetings;
- quarterly joint Legislative and PAMC update calls with Members of
Congress, averaging over 80 attendees per call ; - Email blasts on timely policy items and updates, including tariff updates
on key raw material imports, passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, latest
Buy America provisions at the DOT and ongoing insights regarding the
recent government shutdown - and our monthly Hill Reports which are distributed to almost 400
members of the PAMC and Legislative Committee with impressive
readership/open rates.
Click here for additional information on supporting our efforts to further industry's presence with Congressional members
AAPTP Takes on Altitude
For the first time in 25 years, the asphalt paving industry has an updated reference that reflects today’s technologies, methods, and best practices.
Produced through the Airport Asphalt Pavement Technology Program (AAPTP), a cooperative agreement between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), the new paving handbook offers comprehensive guidance for laying down asphalt roadways and airfields.
The handbook doesn’t just explain best practices – it shows them. Embedded links connect readers directly to more than 30 short training videos that bring key topics to life, from paver operations and roller techniques to joint construction, segregation control, and smoothness requirements. These clips, each only a few minutes long, make the handbook not only a reference to read but also a tool that brings topics to life – turning guidance into practical, on-site demonstrations.