Online Improving Concrete Quality Course Offered in June
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NRMCA is offering its one-day course Improving Concrete Quality, intended for concrete producers, ingredient material suppliers, engineers and testing labs, online between June 3 and 17. Improved concrete quality can benefit all stakeholders in a concrete construction project. This course will address the following questions:
- How do you know if you have good quality? What should be your quality metric?
- How to become more profitable through better quality?
- What are all the key statistical calculations you need to know in concrete?
- How to control the mixing water content in concrete?
- How to deal with temperature and delivery time variations?
- What is the most effective way to ensure that your materials ingredients are of good quality?
- How to improve batching accuracy, mixing uniformity?
- How to identify non-standard testing and curing? How to improve testing quality?
- Tests a producer should do, internal audits and many more...
Course instructors are Kevin MacDonald, Ph.D., FACI, Beton Consulting Engineers LLC, and Karthik Obla, Ph.D., P.E. at NRMCA. Producers will learn readily-implementable steps to manage variability and attain a more consistent product; ingredient suppliers will learn how material variation affects concrete variation; engineers will learn how to improve quality through specifications and testing lab professionals will learn to measure and improve testing quality. Upon successful completion of the course, attendees will earn 8 professional development hours, a certificate of completion and credits toward NRMCA’s STEPS program.
Click here for more information or contact Mason Jean at mjean@nrmca.org.
