NRMCA Announces Speakers

The NRMCA represents producers of ready mixed concrete and the companies that provide materials, equipment and support to the industry.
Credits: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association

The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) announces speakers for the 2013 International Concrete Sustainability Conference, to be held May 6th – 8th at Hotel Sofitel in San Francisco, California.

This year marks the eighth annual NRMCA International Concrete Sustainability Conference and is being held in cooperation with the RMC Research & Education Foundation, and Stanford University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The conference features over 60 world-renowned experts, who will present the latest developments related to design, specifying, manufacturing, testing, construction, maintenance and research of concrete as they relate to sustainability.

Course topics and speakers include:

Life Cycle Assessment
???(R)???AE? Dr. Arash Noshadravan, postdoctoral associate with the Material Systems Laboratory (MSL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Pavements Under Uncertainty and Variation

???(R)???AE? Frances Yang, structures and materials sustainability specialist, Arup, 10 Questions LCA Can Answer about Concrete Buildings

???(R)???AE? Dr. Jeremy Gregory, research scientist, MIT Materials Systems Laboratory, Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings: A Gap Analysis of Existing Literature and Trending Tools

Low Impact Development
???(R)???AE? Dr. Jim Alleman, professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, The Science and Engineering of Photocatalytic Pavements: Update on the 1st US "TX Active' Highway Application

???(R)???AE? Dr. Liv Haselbach, associate professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Removal of High Levels of Dissolved Zinc and Copper in Pervious Concrete

???(R)???AE? Dr. Dev Millstein, postdoctoral fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Cool Communities: The Benefit of Cool Pavements in CA Cities

Green Concrete
???(R)???AE? Dr. Lisa Bradley, vice president and senior toxicologist/risk assessor, AECOM, Coal Ash Material Safety – A Health Risk-Based Evaluation of USGS Coal Ash Data from Five US Power Plants

???(R)???AE? Dr. Jason Ideker, assistant professor, Oregon State University, Perceptions and Usage of Recycled Concrete Aggregate Within Transportation Agencies in North America

???(R)???AE? Ahmad Ardani, manager, Concrete Laboratories, FHWA, Enhancing the Performance of High Volume Fly Ash Concretes Using Fine Limestone Powder

New Concrete Technology

???(R)???AE? Dr. Fabrice Brunel, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, France, Controlling the Cohesion of Calcium Silicate Nanohydrates by the use of Polyelectrolytes: Towards Sustainable Cementitious Materials

???(R)???AE? Dr. Irvin Chen, cement scientist, Calera Corporation, A Novel Cementitious Calcium Carbonate Containing CO2 from Industrial Flue Gas

???(R)???AE? Bijoy Halder, graduate research assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, Use of Mutated Micro-Organism to Produce Sustainable Mortar

Sustainability Initiatives
???(R)???AE? Chris Erickson, CEO, Climate Earth, EPDs: An Inside Look at the Keys to Successful Implementation

???(R)???AE? Tien Peng, senior director of sustainability, codes and standards, NRMCA, Responsible Sourcing through CSR Reporting

???(R)???AE? Ben Tymann, attorney, Greenberg Traurig, Navigating the Legal Obstacles on Your Road to Sustainability: Recent Developments in the Law

Functional Resilience
???(R)???AE? Matthew Comber, design engineer, Degenkolb Engineers, Sustainable Concrete Structures Through Seismic Resilience: A Case Study

???(R)???AE? Jacob Sobstyl, researcher, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, Energy Management: City Texture Matters

???(R)???AE? David Shook, associate structural engineer, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Mapping a Structure's Impact on the Environment: Case Studies

For more information about the NRMCA or their upcoming conference please visit nrmca.org.

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