Deadline Nears for Submissions to Series of NRMCA Promotion Awards

NRMCA is still seeking nominations for its annual Promoter of the Year – Buildings, Promoter of the Year – Pavements, State Affiliate Promoter of the Year and John Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award for Promotion.

The NRMCA Promoter of the Year Awards for Buildings and Pavements recognize the contributions and promotional efforts of individuals from the ready mixed concrete industry. You can help one of these industry champions get deserved acknowledgement by nominating him or her for this prestigious award. Nominees must be employees of an NRMCA Producer member and must have worked in the industry for at least five years.

The State Affiliate Promoter of the Year Award recognizes outstanding concrete promotion contributions by an employee of one of NRMCA’s state affiliate partner organizations. Nominees must be current employees of a state affiliate who have worked in the industry for at least five years. Any active participant in the ready mixed concrete industry (including suppliers and contractors) can help a promotion champion gain acknowledgement by nominating them for this prestigious award.

Please submit a nomination of no more than two pages, detailing the nominee’s promotional efforts over the last five years with particular emphasis on contributions during the past 12-18 months in some or all of the following performance categories: 

• Conversions to concrete resulting from promotional activities;
• Promotional presentations to specifiers, developers, potential end-users, concrete industry personnel, or other individuals or groups;
• Professional development support of other promoters through leadership activities;
• Involvement in local and national trade association promotional activities in addition to state activities;
• Creative and innovative approaches in developing interest in concrete applications, and
• Educating potential markets about advanced and innovative concrete technologies.

The John Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award for Promotion is awarded to a concrete professional distinguished by a career that demonstrated outstanding leadership, dedication and achievement in support of concrete promotion and industry advancement. Nominees for this award must be former employees of NRMCA member companies who are now retired or deceased. You can help one of these industry champions get deserved acknowledgement by nominating them for this prestigious award.

The 2021 award recipients were:
Promoter of the Year, Buildings – Lori Tiefenthaler, Lehigh Hanson
Promoter of the Year, Pavement – Jacob Gave, Cemstone
State Affiliate Promoter of the Year – Brad Stevenson, Utah Ready Mixed Concrete Association
John Roberts Lifetime Achievement for Promotion – No award given

Nominations are due by Tuesday, January 18. Click here for more information or to submit a nomination. You may also contact Senior Vice President, Local Paving, Phil Kresge at pkresge@nrmca.org for more information.