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NRMCA Senior Directors, Building Innovations, Brandon Wray and Patrick Matsche recently represented Build With Strength (BWS) at the Structural Engineers Association (SEA) of California’s annual conference held in Portland, OR. The event was co-hosted with delegates from Northwest SEA’s, including Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia, resulting in a robust and diverse set of designers spanning the bulk of the West. The BWS team was also joined by NRMCA member and NRMCA Promotion Committee Sustainability chairwoman Melissa Verwest of Knife River (seen here, left to right, are Wray, Verwest and Matsche).
Over the course of two days, the team connected with structural engineers on the topics of performance specifications, sustainability, resilience and innovative concrete technologies. “The design community has a hardy appetite for knowledge pertaining to the efficient use of concrete as a material,” said Wray after presenting on Resilient and Sustainable Concrete Design Considerations.
Designers are routinely held to a standard that requires them to be on the record as experts in the materials they design with. Such pressure makes NRMCA resources paramount to their own success, which becomes even more apparent as the BWS team is routinely pulled into projects as material experts to help concrete reach its full potential.
For questions regarding the event, contact Brandon Wray at bwray@nrmca.org or Patrick Matsche at pmatsche@nrmca.org.
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association