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Buildings
Build With Strength (BWS), in collaboration with the Connecticut Concrete Promotion Council (CCPC), attended the Connecticut Architecture Conference & Expo at the Hotel Marcel, the country’s first net zero hotel (seen here). This annual event, hosted earlier this month by the Connecticut chapter of the American Institute of Architects, invites architects and designer professionals to learn about innovations and policies that shape the future of architecture in Connecticut. NRMCA's and Build With Strength's Shamim Rashid-Sumar (seen here) presented The Balanced Approach to Fire Safety: How Concrete Buildings Can Reduce Risk while Rashid-Sumar's colleague Derek Torres of Build With Strength and Dominic Di Cenzo of CCPC manned an exhibition booth to offer their design and educational services. NRMCA and BWS thanks Di Cenzo of CCPC for donating Zeolli concrete bowties along with concrete-cast miniature replicas of Hotel Marcel to some lucky participants. Build with Strength offers webinars and courses to architects, engineers, and building and fire code officials as part of its education efforts to promote safety and resiliency and help place more concrete. Click here for more information or contact Derek Torres at dtorres@nrmca.org.
NRMCA and Build With Strength will host a Low-Carbon Concrete Rountable on Thursday, November 17, in Omaha, NE. NRMCA's Brandon Wray and Chris Dagosta will discuss why addressing embodied carbon in the built environment is important and what steps can the developer, AEC, and local concrete industry take to reduce concrete’s carbon footprint. Please consider joining them for a morning of education, discussion and Click here to register for this free event. For more information, contact Brandon Wray at bwray@nrmca.org or Chris Dagosta at cdagosta@nrmca.org. NRMCA and Build With Strength recently held a webinar titled The Top 10 Ways to Reduce Concrete’s Carbon Footprint for Jacobs, a global engineering group with over 55k employees. Attendees of the event heard NRMCA Executive Vice President, Structures and Sustainability, Lionel Lemay and NRMCA Director, Building Innovations, Brandon Wray discuss sustainability strategies and benefits of concrete. The event was largely attended by members of the structural engineering community in which sustainable design considerations are becoming a common occurrence. Jacobs specifically is gearing up to join the SE 2050 Commitment in which firms are challenged to transform the practice of structural engineering through prioritizing the reduction of embodied carbon of structural materials. Joining the SE 2050 Commitment requires that participating firms submit an Embodied Carbon Action Plan (ECAP) which articulates how the firm will achieve its sustainability goals through education, reporting, reduction and advocacy. Build With Strength continues to help the design community establish and pursue these goals through an improved understanding and use of concrete. For more information, contact Brandon Wray at bwray@nrmca.org. NRMCA recently verified a system-level Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for NRMCA Materials Division member Lehigh Cement. This latest EPD follows several verified for Lehigh Cement this year; because this verification comes less than six months after Lehigh Cement’s latest EPD verification, Lehigh was able to take advantage of NRMCA’s Level 2 hourly rate of $300/hour for members ($450/hour for nonmembers). Find more information about NRMCA’s EPD program fees on our webpage. The EPDs were developed in consultation with Athena Sustainable Materials Institute and based on a software tool created by the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA). The underlying life cycle data for each plant and EPDs were reviewed and verified by EcoForm, a verifier in NRMCA’s EPD program. For more information, contact Matthew Lemay at mlemay@nrmca.org.
Government Affairs
Please join the NRMCA Government Affairs team on Monday, October 31, at 2 p.m. Eastern time for an in-depth analysis of the upcoming midterm elections. Vice President, Government Affairs, Andrew Tyrrell will moderate a discussion between Geoff Davis, retired Member of Congress from Kentucky, and the newest addition to the NRMCA team, Danny Fitzpatrick. Topics will include what races to watch, trends happening across the country and some predictions for what to expect on Election Night. We will also answer your questions and delve into all the insider details of the current political cycle. And for those of you who like to dig into the races yourselves, you can find a wealth of polling data at RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight, and House and Senate ratings at Cook Political Report, Sabato’s Crystal Ball and Politico’s Forecast.
SEO
NRMCA's Ready Mixed Concrete Delivery Professional Driver of the Year Award, now in its 27th year and sponsored by the Truck Mixer Manufacturers Bureau (TMMB), acknowledges the significant contribution of ready mixed concrete truck drivers to the growth and success of individual companies and the ready mixed concrete industry. As a salute to these key members of the concrete production and delivery team, the award recognizes the driver’s career achievement, safety, professionalism, competence and customer service skills in a manner that will enhance the industry and public image of the career of Ready Mixed Concrete Delivery Professional. The 2023 Ready Mixed Concrete Truck Driver of the Year Award winner will be honored during an awards presentation ceremony at NRMCA’s Annual Convention in Las Vegas, NV, in March 2023. Applications must be e-mailed to DOY@nrmca.org by December 31. Click here to access and download the nomination form and for more information. The staff contact is Gary Mullings at gmullings@nrmca.org. 
Calendar
Please note that e-mail and direct registration links to each event listed below can be accessed from NRMCA's website. November 1 - 3, Bowling Green, KY November 7 - 11, Baltimore-Washington Area November 8 - 10, Louisville, KY *Sold Out November 15 - 17, Phoenix *Sold Out November 29 - December 1, Orlando, FL *Sold Out December 6 - 8, Dallas December 13 - 16, Kansas City, MO *Sold Out December 14, Nashville, TN 2023 January 10 -13, Nashville, TN January 24 - 27, Charlotte, NC February 14 - 16, Dallas February 21 - 23, Nashville, TN March 10 - 13, Las Vegas, NV March 14 - 18, Las Vegas, NV March 21 - 23, Nashville, TN March 28 - 30, Dallas 
Pavement
NRMCA and Northwest Cement Council (NCC) Executive Director Diane Warner, PE, recently teamed up to support the Oregon American Public Works Association's Fall Conference held in Pendleton, OR. NRMCA Vice President, Local Paving, Don Clem, PE, presented Guide to Concrete Overlays of Asphalt Parking Lots, outlining the new provisions of the second edition of the popular concrete overlay guide as well as a case study of the DEN Pikes Peak Fee Lot project built in Denver in 2019. The breakout session drew a standing room only crowd of over 50 attendees. The NCC sponsored a booth at the conference focusing on concrete overlays as well as low carbon concrete. For more information, contact Diane Warner at dwarner@nwcement.org or Don Clem, dclem@nrmca.org. ConcreteWorks
Ready mixed concrete mixer truck driver Joey Melton from NRMCA Producer member Thomas Concrete of Anderson, SC, earned top honors at this year’s National Mixer Driver Championship held at the Gaylord Rockies Resort, just outside Denver, Colorado, in conjunction with NRMCA’s ConcreteWorks 2022. Mr. Melton (seen here) earned the champion’s check of $5,000 plus matching donations. He has been driving for Thomas Concrete for 10 years and was the runner-up in the 2021 NRMCA National Mixer Driver Championship held in Orlando, FL.
Engineering
NRMCA is offering its information packed, one-day course, Handling Concrete Specifications, Low Strength Problems and Mixture Submittals, intended for concrete producers, contractors, engineers and testing labs on Wednesday, December 14 in Nashville, TN, in association with the Tennessee Concrete Association. This one-day course will discuss the latest changes to the code and specification requirements (ACI 318, 301, ASTM C94) governing ready mixed concrete. This course will address many topics, including the following:
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