The education and promotions platforms of NRMCA - Build With Strength and PaveAhead - are sponsoring a training session in Salem, OR, on Tuesday, April 22, designed to support the transition to lower carbon concrete through the use of 1L and other blended cements, reports NRMCA Senior Director, Building Innovations, Patrick Matsche.
"Member companies of NRMCA are uniquely positioned to ensure the end users of their products are comfortable using emerging cement technologies," he said.
The goal of the Contractor and Finisher Day is to help concrete finisher crews and contractors become more comfortable with 1L cements through a hands-on workshop, allowing contractors to work with concrete mix designs featuring 1L along with additional mix designs with locally available Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs). The event will help placers and contractors understand what to look for with 1L cements, address common misconceptions, answer real concerns and establish best practices for pouring, placing and finishing concrete with 1L cements.
NRMCA member company Wilsonville Concrete Products will host the event at its Salem plant. The Oregon Aggregates and Concrete Producers Association (OCAPA) is currently accepting event registrations. NRMCA thanks OCAPA and members Holcim US, Northwest Cement Council, Wilsonville Concrete Products, CalPortland, Heidelberg Materials, Knife River, River Bend Materials, a CRH Company; Sika US and Euclid Chemical for their support.
With the generous support of the ready mixed concrete industry, Build With Strength and PaveAhead are recognized as leading the effort to reduce and eliminate embodied carbon in buildings, roads and infrastructure while also educating structural engineers, architects, end users and specifiers in achieving low carbon, high-performance concrete.
For more information, contact Patrick Matsche at pmatsche@nrmca.org or 415-672-5275 or Greg Halsted at ghalsted@nrmca.org, 360-920-5119.
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association