Sources: Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association, Herndon, Va.; CP staff The Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association has presented David Hein, P.E. with its 2024 Industry Champion Award, a special recognition that extends beyond CMHA and the immediate concrete products industry. Now an independent practitioner, he spent nearly 20 years as transportation infrastructure division manager, principal investigator and principal engineer with…
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Organizations – August 2024
The Concrete Masonry Checkoff has named Riley Dvorak as national design technical director. He is tasked with spearheading CMC’s visionary Design Assistance program, a virtual destination where architects and engineers can access complimentary concrete masonry design services. His first order of business will be helping to appoint program directors across five U.S. regions; together, they will collaborate to sculpt a…
Read MoreCMHA champions workforce development through HardscapingIs.com relaunch
Sources: Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association, Herndon, Va.; CP staff The newly configured HardscapingIs.com site advances a Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association initiative designed to foster workforce development in paving stone and segmental retaining wall installation or contracting and project design, engineering or marketing. As the construction landscape continues to evolve, CMHA notes, the demand for skilled professionals in hardscaping…
Read MoreEnergy Efficient and Carbon Sequestering Lightweight CMU Walls
Two of today’s major focus areas in the design community are reducing the amount of energy (usually in the form of fossil fuel to heat, cool and operate buildings) and reducing the embodied carbon in building materials. To help meet the moment, the concrete products industry has two readily available and affordable solutions that can be used to address both…
Read MoreCMHA Safety Awards honor producers and contractors
Source: Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association, Herndon, Va. The Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association 2023 Safety Awards program recognizes 149 production facilities and six contractors throughout North America for exemplary worker protection and accident prevention records. Participants were eligible for awards based on OSHA 300A log or equivalent Canadian injury report data. For 2023, 11 Milestone Awards were presented to…
Read MoreConcrete producers lead the way in federal agency’s Buy Clean agenda
The White House and General Services Administration have marked the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)-funded low embodied carbon (LEC) construction materials procurement program pilot, noting “a dramatic increase of thousands more environmental product declarations used to identify sustainably-manufactured construction materials over the past year. EPDs are a key tool for gaining visibility into a product’s environmental impacts…
Read MoreCMHA, allies open 2024 Hardscape North America Awards entry window
Source: Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association, Herndon, VA. Entries in the 2024 Hardscape North America (HNA) Awards program are being accepted through August 23, eligible projects including residential or commercial walkways, patios, pool decks, outdoor kitchens and living spaces, driveways, plus plazas and streets—all completed from July 2021 through June 2024 (excepting Vintage category). Judges assess each entry on design…
Read MoreHardscape North America 2024 registration opens
Sources: Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association, Herndon, Va.; CP staff Registration is open for Hardscape North America, October 16-18 at the Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville. Beyond the opportunity to see and test the latest equipment, tools, products and technology at the nation’s largest hardscape and landscape event, attendees will also benefit from expanded education, new features, networking events and after-hours…
Read MoreNew website seals CMHA positioning in segmental concrete products, systems
Sources: Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association, Herndon, Va.; CP staff The Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association checks one of the final deliverables in the integration of predecessor groups, Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute and National Concrete Masonry Association, with the launch of www.masonryandhardscapes.org. Site programming has been a work in progress since the ICPI and NCMA merger in July 2022 and…
Read MoreCMHA names NTP Events as new Hardscape North America manager
The Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association has enlisted Alexandria, Va.-based NTP Events to manage Hardscape North America (HNA), the annual gathering at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, co-located with Equip Exposition. Building on HNA’s record-breaking 2023 staging, which saw unprecedented attendance of 27,000-plus and more than 1,000 exhibits, NTP Events aims to further elevate the premier hardscape show for…
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