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Build With Strength and Pave Ahead recently collaborated with the Maryland Ready Mix Concrete Association (MRMCA) at its 25th annual concrete conference, reports NRMCA Manager, Building Innovations, Derek Torres. The event, hosted by MRMCA, the Maryland Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation, Build With Strength and Pave Ahead, invited architects, engineers, contractors and decision makers to a series of panel and roundtable discussions regarding the future and impact of low carbon concrete and performance-based specifications in the construction and paving industry along with celebrating Maryland’s women in concrete.

The Concrete Association of Wyoming recently kicked off its 27th annual two-day conference in Laramie with Executive Director Tina Silva and Don Shubert of NRMCA Producer member Croell Ready Mix welcoming association members from around the state. Build With Strength Senior Director, Building Innovations, Patrick Matsche presented Concrete Sustainability: The Urgency of Embodied Carbon, encouraging NRMCA member and non-member companies to use Build With Strength’s performance-based specification review, NRMCA’s Carbon Calculator tool and consulting services to create low carbon concrete specifications in lieu of unnecessarily prescriptive language that impact the GWP reduction targets and goals of their clients’ projects.  NRMCA’s Build With Strength and Pave Ahead platforms offer design teams a range of education, promotion and execution support.