Next Week's Global Concrete Summit Session to Feature Resilience Topics

The next session of the Global Concrete Summit is set for Wednesday, November 17, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern time. The sessions will focus on resilience, including planning and design that strengthens and renews the social and economic fabric of a community; designing and specifying high performance applications in buildings and infrastructure; and fortified building codes and community initiatives focusing on disaster resistance and adaptive reuse. Speakers include:

10 a.m. to noon, Session 4A

• Therese McAllister, PhD, Community Resilience Group Leader and Program Manager, Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Resilient Infrastructure: Context, Functionality, and Next Steps
• Professor Jose L. Torero, PhD, Professor and Head of UCL Department of Civil, Environmental, Geomatic & Environmental Engineering, University College London - Understanding Fire Resilience
• PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT - Seth Holt, Lehigh Hanson and Oscar Antommattei, Keiwit Engineering Group - Use and Implementation of PLC Concrete for 100 year Service Life Infrastructure
• Bob Nussmeier, Vice President, Business Development, Kiewit Energy Group - Project Development to Support North America’s Energy Transition and the Growing Carbon Emission Reduction Initiatives Relative to Concrete Materials and Concrete Construction

12:30 - 3 p.m., Session 4B

• Mohammed Ettouney, PhD, PE. Founder and Principal, Mohammed Ettouney, LLC - Resilience of Civil Infrastructures: Needs and Methods for Objectivity
• Henry Burton, PhD, Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles - Simulation-Based Assessment of Postearthquake Disruption and Functional Restoration of Cross-Dependent Distributed Systems
• Franz Ulm, PhD, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Solving Climate Change and Social Inequities with Statistical Physics Tools
• PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT - Mahmoud Abdelmonem and Osama Hamad, Emirates Beton - Concrete Durability Issues in the MIddle East
• PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT - Raman Rangan, Managing Director, Various Ice Products FZE representing KTI-Plersch Kaeltetechnik GmbH - Hot and Cold Weather Concreting: Energy Efficient Solutions

Register for free now at www.globalconcretesummit.com. For more information, contact Lionel Lemay at Llemay@nrmca.org or 847-922-7995.