CCIL Congratulates Nabil Kamel, P.Eng., CCIL Certification Program Manager, On His Recent Honorary Member Award from the Canadian Technical Asphalt Association
December 14, 2022
Toronto, December 14, 2022 – CCIL is delighted and proud to announce that its Certifications Program Manager, Nabil Kamel, M.A. Sc., P. Eng., has been elected as an honorary member of the Canadian Technical Asphalt Association (CTAA) for his long service and outstanding contributions.
“This honour is well deserved,” said Trevor Gluck, CCIL President. “Nabil is a leader who has made major contributions to the paving industry over half a century. He has worked in both the industrial sector and in asphalt research. His work on paving technology has had a significant impact on the quality and safety of our roads.”
Nabil trained as a civil engineer in Egypt and started his Masters at the University of Texas. He came to Canada on a research scholarship at the University of Waterloo to finish his post-graduate training. In 1972, he joined the Ministry of Transportation in Ontario where he developed the first computerized Pavement Management Feedback and Information System that allowed the Ministry to collect and store data on pavement designs and construction. He also worked on the “Black Spot Program” that allowed the. Ministry to prioritize for rehab sections of the highway subject to wet weather accidents.
In the 1980’s, Nabil began work with Gulf Canada (later to be named Petro- Canada). This research led to the development of a number of new asphalt products and the registering of four patents. Nabil was the principal author on these patents.
Over the years he has served as a technical referee on several well-known national and international asphalt technology forums; been on the Ontario MTO Superpave implementation team; served on technical committees for the National Research Council of Canada and on the Canadian asphalt User-Producer Group (CUPGA). He has authored over 65 technical reports in the asphalt technology arena, many of which were
presented and published by TRB, AAPT, TAC and CTAA.
Nabil joined CCIL in 2007, and in the 15 years he has been leading our certification division, we have seen the CCIL Asphalt and Aggregate Certification Program expand beyond Ontario to become a national program.
In accepting the award, Nabil noted that as “a young civil engineer, it would have been impossible to have known my career would move me to Canada and put me at the centre of some of the most important developments in asphalt pavement technologies of the 20th century. I am so grateful and humbled.”
