The NRMCA Research Engineering and Standards (RES) Committee unanimously voted to select Nicholas J. Carino as the recipient of the 2015 Richard D. Gaynor award. The award will be presented to Dr. Carino at the NRMCA Annual Convention in March 2015 in Orlando, FL. The Gaynor award is presented to an individual who has shown lifetime commitment and dedication to advance the state of the ready mixed concrete industry by his or her contributions in the technical field.

Dr. Carino (shown below) is a world-renowned expert on non-destructive testing of concrete, primarily on the maturity method and methods to evaluate the in-place strength of concrete and detection of flaws. Dr. Carino graduated with a BS, MS and Ph.D. from Cornell University. He was an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 1974 to 1979. Dr. Carino retired from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2004 where he worked as a research structural engineer since 1979.

He has been active on various standards organizations and technical committees in ACI, ASTM and other groups. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his past research, publications and efforts in progressing standards. Dr. Carino has been involved in various structural investigations of building failures and progressive collapse with NIST. He was a member of the NIST team that investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 and was the principal author of the team’s report on fire-resistive materials. In the research area of high-performance concrete, Dr. Carino worked closely with Dick Gaynor to establish appropriate requirements for specifying and testing high strength concrete.

In learning of his selection, Dr. Carino commented: "I am so honored to have been selected for this award and to join the list of other great people and friends who have received the award. I learned much from Dick and I will cherish this recognition."

Dr. Carino continues his activity at ACI and ASTM and besides other consulting work, is an affiliated consultant with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.