NRMCA updates guide for performance alternatives to prescriptive concrete specs

Sources: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Silver Spring, Md.; CP staff

The NRMCA Research Engineering and Standards (RES) Committee has revised Guide to Improving Specifications for Ready Mixed Concrete (2PE004) to reflect the recently released ACI 318-14, Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete. First published in 2009, the document is a tool for ready mixed producers to minimize prescriptive provisions in actual project specifications and encourage performance-based solutions.

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