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Association & Industry News
NRMCA’s Concrete Cares Award celebrates Producer members’ dedication to supporting their local communities through a wide range of charitable endeavors. So if your ready mix company gives back to your community, please let us know. Winning companies receive a donation to the nonprofit organization of their choice and NRMCA will also feature your work on NRMCA social media outlets throughout 2023. Click here for more information and to access the nomination form. You may nominate your own or another company. For more information, contact Alex Land at aland@nrmca.org. 
Buildings
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 networking to explore the current state of the market and identify opportunities to collaborate on implementing solutions. 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 Producer member Lehigh Hanson recently participated in ASTM E60 Sustainability Committee meetings in New Orleans, reports Director, Sustainability Initiatives, Katie Poss. The scope of ASTM E60 includes the acquisition, promotion and dissemination of knowledge, stimulation of research and the development of standards relating to sustainability and sustainable development. The committee includes environmental, social, economic and other issues relating to sustainability. The committee is currently developing various standards, including Criteria for Life Cycle Assessment, General Principles of Resiliency and General Principles Relative to Buildings. For more information, contact Katie Poss at kposs@nrmca.org. The NRMCA Materials Division is now seeking nominations for the annual Shydlowski-Turner Materials Leadership Award. Named in honor of L. Michael Shydlowski and Robert P. Turner, the award was created to recognize a current or former employee of an NRMCA Materials Division member company who exemplifies leadership, commitment and support for the ready mixed concrete industry and the initiatives and activities of NRMCA. The winner will be honored during the awards ceremony at the 2023 NRMCA Annual Convention in March in Las Vegas. The deadline to nominate a valued partner or colleague is December 31. Click here for more information, including background on Mr. Shydlowski and Mr. Turner. You may also contact Amanda Muller at amuller@nrmca.org.
NRMCA recently verified a system-level Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) program for NRMCA Producer member Holliday Rock in California. The EPD reports the impacts for ready mixed concrete from 12 plants in Southern California, the largest number of plants in a single verification in NRMCA’s EPD program since 2017. The EPD was developed in consultation with and based on a software tool by Athena Sustainable Materials Institute. The software tool integrates LCA impacts within batch operating software to generate EPDs when desired. The software, underlying life cycle data for each plant and EPD were reviewed and verified by Ecoform, a verifier in NRMCA’s EPD program. Public access to the EPD is available on the NRMCA EPD webpage and is listed as NRMCA EPD: 20068 Holliday Rock. For more information, contact Matthew Lemay at mlemay@nrmca.org. 
SEO
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week proposed rescinding the Trump-era Election Protection Rule. The proposal, titled Rulemaking on Fair Choice and Employee Voice, would specifically reverse the main elements of the Election Protection Rule, which include:
1 - Allowing representation elections to proceed despite pending unfair labor practice charges alleging coercive conduct that would interfere with employee free choice and require a re-run election;
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 at an awards presentation ceremony at NRMCA’s Annual Convention in Las Vegas, NV, in March 2023. Nominations must be e-mailed by December 31 to DOY@nrmca.org. Click here to download the nomination form and for more information. The staff contact is Gary Mullings. Last month, the Arizona Rock Products Association's Build With Strength Committee hosted an educational bus tour to educate architects, engineers and developers on the benefits of ready mixed concrete for low- and mid-rise structures. NRMCA Senior Director, Building Innovations, Chris Dagosta reports that architectural, building and engineering attendees toured an aggregate quarry operated by the Salt River Materials Group, a concrete batch plant at Rock Solid, one of Hercuwall’s build-for-rent projects, and a 16,000 square foot Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) home in Paradise Valley. For more information, contact Chris Dagosta at cdagosta@nrmca.org. 
Pavement
NRMCA Vice President, Local Paving, Don Clem, PE, recently presented Concrete Paved Roundabouts at the 2022 Joint Engineers Conference held in Helena, MT. Clem’s presentation, which was sponsored by the Montana Contractors Association (MCA) – Concrete Division (under direction of Dan Ottman, Knife River and Keith Ouzts, MCA), attracted over 40 attendees, representing the U.S. Air Force, Montana Department of Transportation, the cities of Bozeman and Helena, and numerous civil consultants. Montana transportation officials noted the completion of an impressive concrete roundabout at E. Lincoln Rd. and N. Montana Blvd. in Helena (pictured here). For more information, contact Don Clem at dclem@nrmca.org. 
Engineering
The NRMCA Regional Concrete Technologist Training and Certification Program (Short Course) has been scheduled for February 6-10, 2023, at the offices of the Florida Concrete and Products Association In Orlando. Interested persons are encouraged to register now! The number of available slots is limited due to space limitations. The Technical Short Course provides a fundamental understanding of concrete, aggregates and concrete-making materials; requirements in industry codes and standards, and proportioning concrete mixtures. Attendees have the opportunity to obtain industry-recognized NRMCA certifications: NRMCA Levels 2 and 3 Concrete Technologist Certification. The Short Course is intended for quality, sales and other personnel with a technical role with ready mixed concrete companies and suppliers to the industry. New hires in these roles can also benefit from attending. A significant amount of technical content is covered that requires the attendees to have a basic concrete technology background and at least a high-school level of math. To prepare, registrants will be provided with pre-course study content about three weeks before the course. Click here for more information and a link to register. Contact Jessica Walgenbach if you need assistance with registering for the course. The Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering of the University of Toronto will offer an industry workshop and graduate level course titled Chemistry of Cements and Concrete in May 2023. The course has been offered several times and will be taught by academia and industry experts. Topics cover chemistry and physics of the following: Cement Manufacture, Phase Equilibrium & Reactions in Cement Kilns, Supplementary Cementing Materials, Crystal Chemistry of Silicates Hydration of Cements, Chemical Admixture Effects on Hydration, Microstructure of Cement and Hydrates, Sulphate Reactions and Attack, Alkali-Aggregate Reactions, Chloride and Corrosion Reactions, and Chemical Aspects of Freezing and Scaling. Participants are expected to have a reasonably advanced knowledge of cement and concrete technology. The course is scheduled for May 15 - 19 at the University of Toronto for approximately 27 contact hours. The deadline to register is March 27. For more information contact Phill Snel at 416 946-3837 or by e-mail, phill.snel@utoronto.ca or R. Doug Hooton at hooton@civ.utoronto.ca. 
Calendar
Please note that e-mail and direct registration links to each event listed below can be accessed from NRMCA's website. 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 *Sold Out January 24 - 27, Manchester, NH February 6 - 10, Orlando, FL 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 |
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