Sources: American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, Mich.; CP staff
Meeting in Toronto earlier this month for the ACI Concrete Convention, American Concrete Institute members elected University of Texas Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Professor Maria Juenger, FACI, as president for the 2025-2026 term. She is active in numerous ACI committees and, over a 2009-2020 window, earned the organization’s Walter P. Moore, Jr. Faculty Achievement, Young Member/Professional Achievement, Wason Medal for Materials Research, Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service, and Concrete Sustainability Awards.
Her investigation of cement-based materials includes phase formation in cement clinkering, cement and supplementary cementitious material hydration chemistry, and chemical deterioration processes in concrete. In current work on the interaction of cement-based materials and the environment, Professor Juenger aims to develop and characterize cementitious systems with lower carbon dioxide and energy footprints. She holds a BS in Chemistry from Duke University and PhD in Material Science and Engineering from Northwestern University.
Also elected to ACI leadership at the Concrete Convention are Vice President Matthew Sherman, FACI, senior principal with consulting engineer Simpson Gumpertz & Heger; and, Directors (three-year terms) Michael Ahern of Pivot Engineers in Austin, Texas; Mary Beth Deisz Hueste, FACI, Texas A&M University Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Truman R. Jones Jr. professor; Xiomara Sapón-Roldán, Knowledge and Quality manager at Instituto del Cemento y del Concreto de Guatemala; and, Kimberly Waggle Kramer, FACI, G.E. Johnson Construction Science chair and Kansas State University professor.