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 NRMCA is searching for several highly motivated individuals to join the building promotion team, including codes and standards experts and project promotion (outside sales) professionals.

 NRMCA is offering its information-packed, one-day course, Handling Concrete Specifications, Low Strength Problems and Mixture Submittals, intended for concrete producers, contractors, engineers and testing labs on Wednesday, February 27 in Milwaukee in association with the Wisconsin Ready Mixed Concrete Association. This one-day course will discuss the latest changes to the code and specification requirements (ACI 318, 301, ASTM C94) governing ready mixed concrete.

 The National Concrete Pavement Technology Center recently completed a 5-year project funded by the Federal Highway Administration to provide information on the latest in concrete pavement technology, knowledge, and innovation to the state highway agencies.

 The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently approved a petition filed by the American Trucking Associations (ATA) asking FMCSA to prevent the application of the state of California’s controversial rest and meal break rules (RMB rules) to interstate trucking operations.

 Why? You increase the collective knowledge of your team. You boost employees' job satisfaction. You make your company more appealing. You attract the right kind of in-demand candidates when you can show a career path. You aid your retention strategy. You make succession planning easier. You show that individual his/her performance plays a vital role in your company’s performance. You care - and appreciate - that person. It’s a slam dunk Win-Win Strategy. Therefore, alphabetically, the following 2019 classes are for your consideration

Due to market drivers (i.e., Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) in green building standards, most notably LEED V4) NRMCA published version 1.0 of the Industry-Wide EPD (IW-EPD) in 2014. Seventy companies representing over 2,300 plants participated. 

Scott Campbell, Ph.D., P.E. is the newest member of NRMCA’s building promotion team. Based in Milwaukee, Campbell is a senior vice president of structures and codes; he will join his colleagues in advancing the interests of the industry in model codes and technical standards, and support state and local advocacy efforts. Scott holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He has multiple publications in the areas of nonlinear analysis and blast design of buildings.