New Hampshire Audience Welcomes Message of ACI 330

The Northern New England Concrete Promotion Association (NNECPA) recently hosted a lunch-n-learn in Lebanon, NH, featuring NRMCA Senior National Resource Director Doug O’Neill. The audience, which recently participated in an NRMCA "Design Assistance Program (DAP)" in New Hampshire, was officially introduced to the ACI 330 Guide to the Design and Construction of Concrete Parking Lots. Accompanying O’Neill was local concrete experts Steve Nurme and Jon Singleton with NRMCA producer member Carroll Concrete.

"Here we had a firm working on multiple projects for both national and local clients that has already benefitted from one DAP project, yet ultimately still specified the use of unnecessary steel reinforcement and a gravel sub-base for its client," O’Neill said. "Once there was a clear understanding of the What, How and Why of ACI 330, the concrete industry team observed a clear change in mindset of the audience."

After the presentation ended, one of the principles of the firm announced his support for proper design and suggested a partnership with Carroll Concrete and the NNECPA to develop a list of the region's decision makers from local and state municipalities, who, in many cases, thwart the use of concrete because of the misperceptions common in the Northeast.