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Last Friday, NRMCA President Robert Garbini (shown at far left here along with other industry executives) testified before the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in opposition to the agency’s proposed new standard for respirable crystalline silica. During his testimony, Garbini stated that OSHA was basing the perceived necessity for a new standard on faulty information and on assumptions that run counter to current data that show a clear decline in silicosis cases. Garbini also laid out exactly how OSHA failed to understand and characterize the ready mixed concrete industry.

Garbini asked the question, "Since OSHA has clearly not done its homework, how is this proposal not premature?" He concluded his comments by stating that, "NRMCA and the concrete industry support maintaining a silica standard to protect American workers; however, a change from the current standard, PEL, and added action level are unwarranted and indefensible, as proven by current data and industry’s adherence to the current regulations." Garbini’s testimony is in addition to numerous prior comments NRMCA has submitted to OSHA on the issue, and ongoing legislative efforts before Congress.

OSHA’s proposal to overhaul the current permissible exposure limits (PELs) for respirable crystalline silica would:
• Reduce the PEL from 100 micrograms per cubic meter of air (μg/m3), as an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA), down to just 50 μg/m3, 8-hour TWA;
• Require measuring of silica that workers can be exposed to if it is at or above 25 μg/m3, 8-hour TWA;
• Limit worker access to areas where the PEL is above 50 μg/m3, 8-hour TWA;
• Require dust controls to reduce worker exposure to limits above the new PEL;
• Direct employers to provide respirators to workers when dust controls cannot reduce worker exposure to limits above the new PEL;
• Mandate medical exams every three years for workers who are exposed to limits for 30 or more days a year above the new PEL;
• Require new worker training; and
• Require new recordkeeping requirements.

The proposed rule, factsheets, frequently asked questions, hearing and comment information can be found at www.osha.gov/silica/. For more information, contact Gary Mullings at gmullings@nrmca.org or Kevin Walgenbach at kwalgenbach@nrmca.org.
 
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PROMOTIONS
NRMCA Contractor member Swederski Concrete Construction Inc. will pave two parking lots for Allied Plastics this year and will include a message (seen here) about the environmentally friendly qualities of concrete on its job site signs, reports NRMCA Vice President, National Resources, Jon Hansen.

"One of the projects is next to a wetlands area, so we decided to bring awareness that concrete water runoff contains no pollutants," said Joe Swederski, vice president of Swederski Concrete Construction Inc. in Spring Grove, IL. "Site signs always are an opportunity to promote your company, as this one does. But adding the element of thanking the customer for making a decision to protect the environment with their material choice sends a strong message to the public and builds a lot of goodwill for the client."

For more information, contact Jon Hansen at jhansen@nrmca.org or Joe Swederski at joes@swederski.com.
 
It is that time of year, again - Pothole Season. Every year at this time, we hear motorists complaining about the deteriorating conditions of their streets and roads. And every year, we hear the DOT's and other public officials lamenting how they are doing everything they can to try to fix the problem, but how limited they are in funding. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, this year the City of Chicago has already patched over 250,000 potholes (that’s up about 100,000 over last year), spending 1/3 of its annual $9.2 million pothole budget. Last year, Michigan spent about $8.8 million on pothole repair. This year, the estimates are somewhere between $13 million to $18 million! The toll that potholes extol is not just on roadway budgets. The Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) estimates that about 500,000 auto insurance claims are filed annually, resulting in payouts of nearly 4.8 billion (that’s billion with a "b") dollars!

"The problems caused by potholes are evident," says NRMCA Senior National Resource Director Phil Kresge. "As an industry, we have a responsibility to inform the public and transportation officials that concrete is the solution to their potholes woes. The negative financial impact from potholes can be significantly reduced over time if a Balanced Paving Program is adopted - just one of the benefits of rigid pavements compared to flexible. We should also point out that concrete overlays of asphalt roads are an efficient approach where the road problems go beyond just random potholes." 

As reported in last week’s E-NEWS, NRMCA Senior National Resource Director Doug O’Neill recently attended a Town Board meeting in Western New York with a local NRMCA Producer member that was proposing a concrete fix to the severe deterioration of a local roadway. O’Neill reported that it was quite clear that the attendees at these meetings, both the residents and the Board members, know nothing about concrete and have the same pre-conceived notions about concrete. But he also noted that are they willing to listen, since their problems are reaching critical mass.

To take advantage of this situation, NRMCA advises our State Affiliates and members to reach out to every Town/City/Village Board and offer up "Concrete" Solutions to their pothole problems. Additionally, NRMCA members should reach out within their own towns to get an audience with these boards. Also, promoters should follow up with local reporters, based on their coverage of pothole problems and to bring the issue to the attention of agency and elected officials where SLR advocacy is being considered or is underway. 

For more information on SLR Promotion and Advocacy, contact Phil Kresge at pkresge@nrmca.org.
 
More than 200 legislators, staff and government officials attended the Tennessee Concrete Industry’s sixth annual "Day on the Hill" in Nashville on April 1. This cooperative government relations effort between Tennessee ready mix, cement, paving, pipe and precast associations is making strides with the decision-makers in state government. The day began with 20 industry representatives making scheduled small-group office visits to 50 state lawmakers. The industry emphasized the under-investment in infrastructure and the need for long-life, durable concrete solutions. Industry participants also worked to increase awareness on the crisis with the Federal Highway Trust Fund. Additionally, lawmakers learned of the importance of Tennessee’s flagship Concrete Industry Management program at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro.
 
As a result of the efforts, the Tennessee General Assembly is advancing Joint Resolution HJR0932 calling on the state’s Congressional Delegation to act quickly to fix the Highway Trust Fund and pass a multi-year Surface Transportation Bill.

Source: Portland Cement Association's Executive Report e-newsletter for April 7, 2014.
 
The Euclid Chemical Company
ASSOCIATION & INDUSTRY NEWS
NRMCA members Holcim and Lafarge, the world’s two biggest cement companies, said earlier this week that they had agreed to merge. Holcim, based near Zurich, Switzerland, and Lafarge, based in Paris, rank among the market leaders in cement and related products like stone, gravel and sand. Last year, they had combined revenue of about $44 billion and adjusted pretax income of about $8.9 billion. They have a combined work force of about 135,000 employees. The companies expect the deal to close in the first half of 2015. They said it would give the combined company production sites in 90 countries, with no single country accounting for more than 10 percent of revenue.

The companies view the deal as a way to expand in faster-growing regions where lower-cost competitors pose a threat. The merger would create a company to be called LafargeHolcim. Wolfgang Reitzle, a board member at Holcim, would serve as chairman of the new company’s board. A 14-member board would include seven members from each company. LafargeHolcim is to be based in Switzerland.

Source: An April 7 article posted by The New York Times. Read more.
 
The RMC Research & Education Foundation’s 4th Annual Walk for Sustainability will take place on Thursday, May 15th, in conjunction with NRMCA’s International Concrete Sustainability Conference. Please join us for a Walk to help raise awareness of the Foundation's large body of sustainable development-focused research reports and to raise additional funds to help the Foundation continue this important work. Participants can set up their own personal fundraising pages to track their support online. The Walk will begin at 6:30 a.m. (registration begins at 6:00 a.m. with pre-walk coffee) and will conclude leaving enough time for participants to freshen up and take advantage of the continental breakfast before the MIT Showcase begins at 9 a.m. Registration is only $25 per walker and is tax deductible as a donation to the Foundation. Please visit the Walk registration page for more information and to register. 

Sponsorships are also available for this event and are a great way for your company to demonstrate support for sustainability initiatives and the Foundation at the same time! Please click here to access the sponsorship form.

Please contact the Foundation’s Jennifer LeFevre at 240-485-1151 or at jlefevre@rmc-foundation.org with questions or visit www.rmc-foundation.org for more information about the Foundation’s projects and programs.
 
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized NRMCA Producer member CalPortland Company with a 2014 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year designation for its efforts in energy use management. The company will be recognized in an EPA ceremony in Washington, DC, on April 29. CalPortland has been an ENERGY STAR partner since 1996; 2013 accomplishments include:
 
• Reducing energy intensity by nearly two-percent compared to 2012, resulting in 0.13 trillion Btu in savings. This amounts to a reduction of 12,586 metric tons of CO2. Cumulative reductions in energy intensity of nearly 14 percent since 2005 have saved more than $52 million.
• Conducting an in-depth study of natural gas fuel use in on/off road vehicles to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; a pilot project is planned for an asphalt plant.
• Completing a large gas conditioning tower project at the Mojave Cement Plant reducing energy consumption by 15.7 million kWh per year and producing an annual savings of $1.25 million.

ENERGY STAR was introduced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through increased energy efficiency. Today, ENERGY STAR offers businesses and consumers energy-efficient solutions to save energy, money and help protect the environment for future generations. 16,000 organizations are ENERGY STAR partners committed to improving the energy efficiency of products, homes, and buildings.

Source: CalPortland Company press release. For more information about ENERGY STAR, visit www.energystar.gov or call 888-782-7937.
 
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SUSTAINABILITY
NRMCA Vice President, Sustainability, Tien Peng, recently participated in the BuildWell 2014 Conference, a gathering of deep-green building practitioners held in Sausalito, CA. The conference played host to world-renowned speakers and a network of participants that affects the way building materials are specified, including Architecture2030, Warner-Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, Cradle-2-Cradle, Health Product Declaration Collaborative, U.S. Green Building Council, Webcor, U.S. EPA, ARUP, Google, Facebook and Gensler. Environmental disclosures and product transparency was a key focus of the event.

Keynote speaker Ed Mazria, founder of Architecture2030, challenged our specifiers to encourage manufacturers to develop their Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), Industry Average EPDs and a plan to achieve the 2030 Challenge for Products. Demonstrating the market value of taking a sustainable leadership position, Bay Area’s Central Concrete’s Ryan Henkensiefken presented the case for low-carbon concrete. Mazria as well as other participants complimented the concrete industry initiatives, but noted more companies must work to understand their environmental and health impacts with EPDs and HPDs.

NRMCA has three initiatives to help members achieve these product disclosure goals. NRMCA established its EPD Program Operator status under strict international standards by which EPDs are developed and verified (certified) in order to help concrete producers and suppliers meet new disclosure requirements cost effectively. NRMCA is also developing an industry-wide EPD so that members can compare their environmental impacts to industry baselines. Another project, funded by the RMC Research & Education Foundation, will provide a methodology and guide for concrete producers to report material ingredients and chemical constituents of their products.

For more information on these programs, go to www.nrmca.org/sustainability, or contact Tien Peng at tpeng@nrmca.org or 206-913-8535.
 
Last week, Washington, DC, mayor Vincent Gray announced the adoption of the 2013 DC Green Construction Code and the 2013 DC Energy Conservation Code as mandatory codes applicable to public- and private-sector buildings. By the adoption of these codes, the District of Columbia is taking a leadership role in fostering green-building practices and fundamentally transforming the way buildings are designed and constructed, reports NRMCA Vice President, Sustainability, Tien Peng. DC was already the first city to mandate that certain privately-owned new building construction meet LEED standards, a move that was soon followed by other major cities, including Boston and Los Angeles. In recent years, DC has consistently topped USGBC’s list of the highest number of LEED certified projects in the country.

Based on the 2012 International Green Construction Code (IgCC) with local amendments, the 2013 DC Green Construction Code applies to all construction projects greater than 10,000 square feet except single family homes, townhouses and multifamily residential construction three stories or fewer. The Construction Codes were effective upon publication on Friday, March 28.

For more information, please contact Tien Peng at tpeng@nrmca.org or 206-913-8535.
 
NRMCA’s Lionel Lemay participated in the first of six workshops organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to address the President’s Climate Action Plan that directs NIST to convene a panel on disaster-resilience standards. The objective of the workshops is to develop a comprehensive, community-based resilience framework and provide guidelines for consistently safe buildings and infrastructure. The April 7 meeting, held at NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, MD, engaged a broad network of stakeholders to focus on the role that buildings and infrastructure play in ensuring community resilience. Through the workshops, NIST will develop a Disaster Resilience Framework to establish the overall performance goals; assess existing standards, codes and practices, and identify gaps that must be addressed in order to bolster community resilience.

Additional workshops are planned throughout the remainder of 2014 and early 2015 with April 2015 as the target for the first draft of the framework. NRMCA’s Lemay and Tien Peng will participate in all six conferences in order to ensure the document focuses appropriately on standards and incentives for resilient constructions.

For more details on NRMCA’s resilience efforts, visit www.nrmca.org/resilience or contact Tien Peng of NRMCA at TPeng@nrmca.org or 206-913-8535.
 
Friday, April 18, is the early registration deadline and hotel cutoff date for the 2014 International Concrete Sustainability Conference, scheduled for May 12-15 just outside Boston in Cambridge, MA. Over 60 world-renowned speakers from 10 different countries will present during the conference. This year’s conference is being held in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Concrete Sustainability Hub Showcase scheduled for May 15. The conference is co-sponsored by NRMCA, the RMC Research & Education Foundation and the Portland Cement Association. The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub Showcase will feature key researchers who will present research on life cycle assessment of building and pavements and on concrete science using poster sessions, plenary presentations and interactive workshops.

Click here to access the complete speaker schedule, more details and registration links for the conference or contact Lionel Lemay at LLemay@nrmca.org or 847-918-7101.
 
GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
Media articles on Congress, transportation infrastructure, regulation, taxes and other subjects, each of which relate to the ready mixed concrete industry, are updated each week by NRMCA's Government Affairs staff. To access the most recent compilation of articles for March 31 - April 4 please click here.

If you would like to receive this weekly updated link in a separate e-mail, or if you have questions or comments about the roundup, contact NRMCA’s Elizabeth Fox at efox@nrmca.org.
 
Registration is now open for the third annual RALLY for ROADS to be held Wednesday, June 11. This year, NRMCA’s RALLY for ROADS, the nation's largest transportation funding advocacy rally, will be held at 8:30 a.m. in conjunction with the Transportation Construction Coalition Fly-In that you can also attend. The rally will be held at Union Square on U.S. Capitol Grounds, Permit Area #15.

This is the year to come to Washington, DC. Federal transportation programs are facing a crisis. With MAP-21 set to expire September 30 and the Department of Transportation estimating that the Highway Trust Fund will run out of money as soon as July, there has never been a greater need for Congress to act. Join your industry allies in Washington, DC, June 10-11 for the Transportation Construction Coalition's 2014 Legislative Fly-In. Your congressional delegation needs to hear from you about the importance of continued investment in transportation infrastructure to the nation's economy - creating jobs while building the future.
As in the past, a legislative briefing is scheduled to update you on the latest congressional events; educational briefing packets will also be prepared for you to deliver to your congressional delegation. Buses will take you from the hotel to the U.S. Capitol for the rally on June 11.

This year's meeting will be held at the Mayflower Renaissance Washington Hotel at 1127 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Make your reservations directly with the Mayflower Renaissance Washington Hotel by calling 1-877-212-5752 or 1-202-347-3000. Please mention the group name TCC Fly-In for the discounted room rate of $309 per night which is guaranteed through the rooms cut-off date of Friday, May 9.

Visit www.RallyforRoads.org to register for the rally and keep watching your inboxes and E-NEWS for more details and how to register for the TCC Fly-In. We hope to see you there in hard hats and your usual work clothes! Thank you for your past support and we look forward to seeing you in June.

For more information, please contact Kerri Leininger at kleininger@nrmca.org or 240-485-1159.
 
Last week, the Supreme Court struck down the two-year ceilings that Congress has imposed on donations by individuals to presidential and congressional candidates, parties and some — but not all — political action groups in a 5-4 decision in McCutcheon v. the Federal Election Committee. Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon (along with the Republican National Committee), sued the FEC over the two-year limits which stopped McCutcheon from giving anything to candidates or political panels once his donations had reached ceilings. He argued that curbing the number of candidates he could support infringed on his right to engage in political expression.

The majority of justices agreed with him. In his opinion, Chief Justice Roberts dismissed that the caps were needed to combat corruption in politics, stating that it will be kept in check by the caps on how much each single donation can be. The opinion stated: "An aggregate limit on how many candidates and committees an individual may support through contributions is not a modest restraint at all. The government may no more restrict how many candidates or causes a donor may support than it may tell a newspaper how many candidates it may endorse."

The ruling will formally go into effect on April 27 and only applies to federal elections. The current per-donation limits the Court left intact are $2,600 per election to a candidate (with primary and general elections treated separately), $32,400 per year to a national party committee, $10,000 per year to a state or local party committee and $5,000 per year to a regular political action committee (but that cap does not apply to "Super PACs" that do not give money to candidates). The fundraising limits associated with political action committees like NRMCA’s CONCRETEPAC will not be changed.

What the Court struck down were these two-year ceilings that have been operating during 2013 and 2014: $48,600 to federal candidates and $74,600 to political committees. Of that $74,600, no more than $48,600 can be donated to state and local party committees and PACs.

For more information, contact Elizabeth Fox at efox@nrmca.org or 240-485-1156.
 
Last Congress your efforts were successful in defeating "card check." Now, the Obama Administration is trying to enact "card check" through regulation. Federal regulators appointed by the Obama Administration to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Department of Labor (DOL) have proposed three new initiatives that threaten your ability to seek and retain legal counsel and discuss union organizing drives with your employees. The NLRB has proposed a regulation that would shorten union representation elections from 38 days to 10 days. These "ambush elections" would leave you almost no time to speak with your employees about the disadvantages of unionization. The NLRB is also allowing unions to gerrymander elections by cherry picking small groups of employees that support the union and letting them form "micro-unions," which are easier to organize but will tear businesses apart.  At the same time, DOL has proposed a regulation that will make it harder for you to get information about how to lawfully communicate with your employees about unions. This will make a mockery of real elections and lead to "card check" by regulation.  

NRMCA, working with the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, is pleased to provide you with an easy way to contact the NLRB and your members of Congress. Tell them to stop "card check" by regulation and stop "micro-unions." Tell your senators and representative in Congress to oppose DOL's persuader rule, the ambush rule and the NLRB's micro-union standard, and ask them to support legislation that would stop this attack on American business. There are separate action alerts for each rule on NRMCAvoice.com and an additional outside link in Persuader to voice your opinion and tell the NLRB to stop pushing its ambush election rule. Make sure to click on the link for Senate letters on the ambush election and micro-union alerts. Thank you for lending your voice to these important issues.

For more information, contact Elizabeth Fox at efox@nrmca.org or 240-485-1156.
 
The second annual Cement & Concrete Day on the Hill, April 29 - 30, brings together representatives from more than a dozen related-industry associations. The goal is to promote the expanded use of cement and concrete in federal infrastructure projects, from highways and bridges to dams and mass transit. The Primary Advocacy Issues for this year’s Day on the Hill include a fully funded, multi- year Highway Bill Reauthorization, with reforms to maximize impact of each dollar spent, promoting a Federal Resilience Tax Credit and enactment of a new Federal Water Resources (WRDA) Bill.

Sponsored and hosted by Portland Cement Association, the event is open to member company executives and staff of concrete and masonry related associations’ member associations. In addition to NRMCA, 2014 sponsors include the American Coal Ash Association, American Concrete Pavement Association, American Concrete Pressure Pipe Association, Concrete Reinforcing Steel Association, Concrete Sawing & Drilling Association, Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute, National Concrete Masonry Association, Slag Cement Association and National Precast Concrete Association.

Click here to register. For more information, contact Elizabeth Fox at
efox@nrmca.org or 240-485-1156.
 
EDUCATION &TRAINING
The Educational Activities Committee invites ready mix producers to submit their company’s most innovative training initiatives of 2013/2014. Companies must submit their entries no later than Thursday, July 31. The Innovation in Training Award winner will be recognized at NRMCA's ConcreteWorks to be held September 22 in Indianapolis. Additionally, the producer’s program will be featured in a best-practices article in NRMCA's quarterly magazine, Concrete InFocus. MTSU's Concrete Institute Management program faculty will serve as judges.
 
For more information, click here or contact NRMCA's Eileen Dickson at 240-485-1164 or by e-mail, edickson@nrmca.org.
 
A Webinar scheduled for Wednesday, April 16, is for ready mixed concrete sales representatives. The topic is Building the Customer Relationship...in the Post-Recession Economy. Much has changed in the post-recession economy, especially with our customers. Many of the companies we did business with pre-recession have changed dramatically - new contacts, new business strategies, new operations, new buying criteria. Do we really know our most important customers as well as we need to? Enough to be sure of getting and keeping their ready mix business as the economy improves?

In this Webinar, sales reps will learn how to reassess their relationship with key customers and how to ask the right "20 Questions" to help build a business plan to "Get, Keep and Grow" sales.

Later this year, NRMCA will host four more Webinars specifically for sales reps and sales managers. Watch for  announcements. Click here for registration options, more information and staff contact.
 
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
The NRMCA April Internet Spotlight, good through Tuesday, May 6, is the Concrete In Practice (CIP) single set package. Order online today and receive 20% off. The regular member price is $30, Internet Special $24, plus shipping. Included in this set is the newest CIP topic and seven revised topics:

• (NEW) CIP 43 – Alkali Aggregate Reactions (AAR) discusses the causes for deleterious expansions due to alkali silica and alkali carbonate reactions in concrete, test methods, and methods of mitigating the problem – in the What? Why? And How? Format.

The following CIP topics have been revised to include more current information:
• (UPDATED) CIP 1 – Dusting Concrete Surfaces
• (UPDATED) CIP 2 – Scaling Concrete Surfaces
• (UPDATED) CIP 4 – Cracking Concrete Surfaces
• (UPDATED) CIP 5 – Plastic Shrinkage Cracking
• (UPDATED) CIP 6 – Joints in Concrete Slabs on Grade
• (UPDATED) CIP 26 – Jobsite Addition of Water
• (UPDATED) CIP 27 – Cold Weather Concreting

Click here to order. Click here to view and or order any of the topics in the CIP series.

Also, two new topics were also released in the Technology in Practice (TIP) series. The TIP series is intended for education of ready mixed concrete industry personnel while CIPs are typically directed toward users and customers of ready mixed concrete. The two new topics in the TIP series are:
• TIP 11 – Testing Concrete Cores
• TIP 12 – Slump Loss of Concrete 

Click here to view and or order any of the topics in the TIP series.
 
CALENDAR
*Please note that e-mail and direct links to each event listed below can be accessed from NRMCA's Web site.

April 10, Webinar
SLR Concrete Construction & Repair Basics
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
April 15, Free Webinar
New Radical Material and Resources Reporting Criteria in LEEDv4
Email: Tien Peng, 206-913-8535
 
April 16, Webinar
Streets & Roads Promotion & Advocacy Overview
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
April 16, Webinar
Building the Customer Relationship... in the Post-Recession Economy
Email: Eileen Dickson, 240-485-1164
 
April 25, Webinar
Designing Concrete Parking Lots the Right Way!
Email: Amy Miller, 904-264-8850
 
May 6, Webinar
Soils 101
Email: Amanda Hult, 303-953-2382
 
May 8, Webinar
Streets & Roads Team Building & Situation Analysis
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
May 12–15, Boston
International Concrete Sustainability Conference
E-mail: Lionel Lemay, 847-918-7101
 
May 21, Webinar
Personal Leadership and Coaching
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
May 29, Webinar
Streets & Roads Promotion for DOTs, Counties & Municipalities
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
June 3-5, Silver Spring, MD
Concrete Durability Course
Email: Jessica Walgenbach, 888-84-NRMCA, x1152
 
June 5, Webinar
Overlays for Streets & Local Roads
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
June 10, Webinar
Roller Compacted Concrete for Streets & Local Roads
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
June 11-12, Online Course
Designing Pervious Concrete Pavement for Municipal & Commercial Applications
Email: Amanda Hult, 303-953-2382
 
June 13, Webinar
Winning Initial Streets & Roads Projects in Counties & Municipalities
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
June 17, Webinar
Concrete Pavement Jointing Plans
Email: Amanda Hult, 303-953-2382
 
June 19, Webinar
Utilizing MIT Research Results
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
June 23-26, Online Course
Concrete's Role in Sustainable Development
Email: Tien Peng, 206-913-8535
 
June 26, Webinar
SLR Concrete Construction & Repair Basics
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
July 7-10, Online Course
Building Green with Concrete
Email: Tien Peng, 206-913-8535
 
July 8, Webinar
Understanding Asphalt
Email: Brian Killingsworth, 830-438-2690
 
July 11, Webinar
Designing Concrete Parking Lots the Right Way!
Email: Amy Miller, 904-264-8850
 
July 15, Webinar
Streets & Roads Elected Official Advocacy
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
July 29-30, Online Course
Designing Jointed Concrete Pavement for Streets and Parking Areas
Email: Amanda Hult, 303-953-2382
 
July 30, Webinar
Streets & Roads Promotion & Advocacy Overview
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
August 4-7, Online Course
Life Cycle Assessment of Concrete Structures
Email: Tien Peng, 206-913-8535
 
August 12-15, Silver Spring, MD
Plant Manager Certification Course
Email: Jessica Walgenbach, 888-84-NRMCA, x1152
 
August 14, Webinar
Streets & Roads Team Building & Situation Analysis
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
August 19, Webinar
Controlling Moisture in Concrete Slabs
Email: Amanda Hult, 303-953-2382
 
August 20, Webinar
Recruiting & Hiring Top Performing Ready Mix Sales Reps
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
August 21, Webinar
Streets & Roads Promotion for DOTs, Counties & Municipalities
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
September 10, Webinar
Re-Entrepreneuring: 7 Strategies for Rebuilding Your Business in the New Economy
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
September 12, Webinar
Winning Initial Streets & Roads Projects in Counties & Municipalities
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
September 12, Webinar
Designing Concrete Parking Lots the Right Way!
Email: Amy Miller, 904-264-8850
 
October 14, Webinar
Streets & Roads Elected Official Advocacy
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
November 7, Webinar
Designing Concrete Parking Lots the Right Way!
Email: Amy Miller, 904-264-8850
 
November 19, Webinar
Sales Performance Assessments and Review for Ready Mix Sales Managers
Email: Shawnita Dickens, 888-84-NRMCA, x1154
 
December 3-5, Phoenix
Environmental Professional Certification Course
Email: Jessica Walgenbach, 888-84-NRMCA, x1152
 
December 9-12, Phoenix
Plant Manager Certification Course
Email: Jessica Walgenbach, 888-84-NRMCA, x1152
 
 
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