Sources: Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association, Herndon, Va.; CP staff After a late-2022 release of new name and branding vote totals, members of the former Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute and National Concrete Masonry Association officially shed the interim identity of their unified organization, ICPI-NCMA, during a 2023 convention business luncheon in Columbus, Ohio.
Read MoreSources: National Precast Concrete Association, Carmel, Ind.; CP staff The Precast Show 2023 runs February 23-25 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio’s capital city. As the largest precast-specific trade gathering in North America, it draws producers from across the manufactured-concrete spectrum, plus allied equipment and machinery manufacturers, material suppliers, and service providers.
Read MoreSources: ICPI-NCMA, Herndon, Va.; CP staff More than 90 percent of ICPI-NCMA members voting for a new organization name checked the simple and explicit choice: Concrete Masonry and Hardscapes Association. With assistance from an agency seasoned in branding, the group will officially unveil a new identity and logo during its annual meeting, February 20-24 in Columbus, Ohio. The event dovetails…
Read MoreSolidia Technologies has appointed David Smith as senior technical director. A charter Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute team member who most recently served as vice president of Research and Development, he brings decades of experience working with public or private organizations and federal, state, or municipal government agencies—all along demonstrating interlocking concrete pavement as a durable and functionally superior system to…
Read MoreSources: Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, Alexandria, Va.; CP staff All indoor and outdoor exhibit space for ICPI-NCMA’s Hardscape North America and the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute’s co-located Equip Exposition, October 18-21 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, is sold out. With upward of 1,000 exhibits combined, the events draw tens of thousands of hardscape or landscape practitioners and other…
Read MoreSources: ASTM International, West Conshohocken, Pa.; CP staff ASTM has presented ICPI-NCMA Vice President of Engineering, Masonry Nick Lang with the Award of Merit and accompanying title of Fellow for his contributions to Committee C15 on Manufactured Masonry Units. Award of Merit is the highest Society recognition for an individual’s distinguished service and committee participation.
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