EPA, Commerce, Energy, FHWA officials empower Carbon Neutral Summit

  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Federal Highway Administration and National Institute of Standards and Technology representatives offered and compiled takeaways as participants in the first Summit on Accelerating Carbon Neutral Concrete Materials and Technologies. NEU: An American Concrete Institute Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete hosted the early-fall event to engage public and private construction stakeholders…

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Ceco, Conco first up on PRO: ACI Advancing Productivity member roster

Sources: American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, Mich.; CP staff Ceco Concrete Construction LLC and The Conco Companies are the charter members of PRO: An ACI Center of Excellence for Advancing Productivity, both joining at Silver level ($25,000/year). Founded in 1912 and based in Kansas City, Mo., Ceco Concrete has 19 locations across the country and is widely recognized for its…

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Ceco Construction veteran heads ACI Center for Advancing Productivity

The American Concrete Institute has chartered PRO: An ACI Center of Excellence for Advancing Concrete Industry Productivity as a catalyst for solving constructability barriers. PRO will collaborate with design and engineering professionals, material suppliers, plus contractors to resolve issues that negatively impact output in concrete site operations. “The concrete contractor’s input on design details, specifications, and material criteria that embraces…

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ORGANIZATIONS – MARCH 2020

The ACI Foundation Strategic Development Council has elected CECO Concrete Construction Vice President of North Operations Phil Diekemper as director for a term ending in 2022, and Euclid Admixtures Canada President and Euclid Chemical Inc. Vice President Claude Bedard as returning director. They join an SDC board comprising Chairman Charles Hanskat; Immediate Past Chairman Joseph Sanders; and, Directors Kirk Burns, Rodney Chiodo, Beverly Garnant, John Hausfeld, Carl Larosche, Brad Malmsten, Claudio Manissero, Charles Nmai and Glenn Schaefer.

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