NRMCA Senior Vice President of Engineering Colin Lobo presented last week at the 65th annual Concrete Conference organized by the University of Minnesota. The conference, which provided continuing education credits, was attended by more than 450 people. Lobo presented "a reality check" on the state of performance-based specifications by covering the primary prescriptive provisions seen in private specifications. These issues were developed as Specification in Practice topics (this presentation will be co-presented online with his NRMCA engineering department colleague Karthik Obla on January 27, 2016).
 

Presentations at the conference included topics on ASR by Larry Sutter; freeze thaw durability of concrete pavements and internal curing by Jason Weiss; and performance specifications and testing limitations by Doug Hooton. Katelyn Freeseman presented on a novel method on non-destructive evaluation of concrete structures. The Portland Cement Association's Edward Sullivan presented on an economic forecast for cement and concrete.

For more information, contact Colin Lobo at clobo@nrmca.org.