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Association & Industry News
The estimated ready mixed concrete produced in July is 34.3 million cubic yards, 1.8% lower than that in July 2022. The estimated production in the U.S. through July is 222 million cubic yards, approximately 2.1% lower than that during the same period in 2022. Ready mixed concrete production is estimated from cement shipments reported by the U.S. Geological Survey. More detail is available here for NRMCA members under Production Statistics. 
Buildings
NRMCA, through its Build With Strength and Pave Ahead initiatives, is seeking nominations for the 2024 Concrete Innovations Awards. The award program recognizes outstanding achievement in concrete design and construction. Innovative projects are awarded for outstanding performance while lowering environmental impacts, including embodied and operational carbon footprint. Buildings and infrastructure projects substantially designed and built using concrete in the United States in the last five years are eligible. Projects must demonstrate improved performance and sustainability. An NRMCA member company must have been involved in supplying products or services to the project. Areas of excellence include advanced quality control, innovative cements, supplementary cementitious materials, admixtures, aggregates, recycling methods, carbon capture and sequestration technologies, measurement tools or innovative designs that improve performance and sustainability. Nominees are now being accepted for the 2024 Concrete Innovations Awards at www.concreteinnovations.com. Deadline for nominations is January 31, 2024. For more information, contact Lionel Lemay at llemay@nrmca.org or 847-922-7995.
On September 22, NRMCA Senior Director, Building Innovations, Frank Mruk participated in the Boston Society of Architects/Carbon Leadership Forum Low Carbon Concrete kickoff workshop at the Boston Society of Architects building in Boston. The event is the first of four planned workshops organized to brainstorm how to increase the accessibility to Low Carbon Concrete in Massachusetts. Over 50 architects, engineers, contractors and concrete industry participants attended the event, including representatives from the Massachusetts Concrete & Aggregates Producers Association, Consigli, Structuretone, Turner, Boston Sand and Gravel, Holcim, Le Messurier, Thornton Tomasetti, Ingenuity, Lambert Sustainability, Sasaki, Payette and others. Barbara Batshalom and Michelle Lambert facilitated the meeting. The Build With Strength program is a leader in supporting professions at the cutting edge of industry best practices. For more information, contact Frank Mruk at fmruk@nrmca.org. 
NRMCA’s Lionel Lemay along with members of the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSH) presented at the annual American Center for Life Cycle Assessment conference held last week in Burlington, VT. The presentation was titled Challenges and opportunities in the definition of scope 1-3 and avoided emissions in the materials industry. Dr. Randy Kirchain, director of the MIT CSH, moderated a panel where Lemay presented NRMCA’s challenges with collecting data to present the concrete industry’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions. Ipek Bensu Manav and Miaomiao Zhang, both graduate students doing work for the MIT CSH, presented the challenges and opportunities for quantifying Scope 3, and avoided emissions for buildings and pavements, respectively. Click here to learn more. Lionel Lemay can be reached at llemay@nrmca.org or 847-922-7995. Calendar
Please note that e-mail and direct registration links to each event listed below can be accessed from NRMCA's website. October 11 - 13, Centennial, CO *Sold Out October 17 - 20, Denver *Sold Out October 18, Online Course October 22 - 24, Baltimore October 24, Des Moines, IA November 7 - 9, Charlotte, NC *Sold Out November 7 - 9, Online Course November 14 - 16, Dallas *Sold Out November 15, Free Online Webinar November 28 - 30, Orlando, FL *Sold Out November 29, Indianapolis December 11 - 18, Online Course December 12 - 15, Orlando, FL *Sold Out December 12 - 14, Denver December 12, Charlotte, NC December 13, Online Course 
2024 February 13 - 15, Denver March 18 - 21, Tampa, FL March 26 - 28, Denver October 10 - 14, Aurora, CO 
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