Massachusetts Concrete & Aggregate Producers Association Executive Director Craig Dauphinais and NRMCA Senior Director, Local Paving, Doug O’Neill, recently teamed up to educate a regional design firm with 23 offices in 13 states along the East Coast. Along with presenting an abbreviated version of NRMCA’s ACI 330 - The Gold Standard for Concrete Parking Lot Design, the promoters highlighted the successful use of concrete in downtown city streets, round-a-bouts, intersections and parking lots in the Northeast and topped it off with a brief overview of pervious concrete.

Over the summer Dauphinais traveled with O'Neill to Rochester and Buffalo, NY, to gather information on the concrete pavements placed over the last 15+ years in those cold weather cities. He is now utilizing those pictures and project information to make the case for concrete to be used in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The managing director of the design team indicated the need to get in front of state transportation officials and then offered his assistance to bring the message to them. Dauphinais is working on setting up meetings to move this process forward in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, O'Neill said.