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Build With Strength (BWS) was the Title Sponsor for the Multifamily Executive Leadership Conference held earlier this month in Vail, CO, reports NRMCA Senior Director, Building Innovations, Patrick Matsche. The conference is an invitation-only event that draws C-Level executives from the multifamily development community. Leaders from around the U.S. heard from their peers who have conquered new avenues, influencing design build and operating decisions.

 

 

The meeting of the Research Engineering and Standards (RES) Committee held earlier this month in Las Vegas as part of NRMCA's Annual Convention was chaired by Alberto Romanach with Cemex and attended by about 60 people. The committee discussed various technical issues, including quality benchmarks and a concept of a quality dashboard; factors of portland limestone cement that can impact concrete properties; developments in industry standards at ACI and ASTM, including ACI 318, 301 and ASTM C94; demonstration of a spreadsheet tool for selecting durability exposure classes and requirements for concrete; proposed revisions to section 033000 of MasterSpec for cast in place concrete; NRMCA research on natural pozzolans and developing concrete mixtures with lower embodied carbon; plant certification; technical publications with revisions to four CIP topics and a draft of a new topic on EPDs, and developing new TIP topics; NRMCA technical education and certification programs; and other technical issues.

NRMCA is offering its information-packed course, Handling Concrete Specifications, Low Strength Problems, and Mixture Submittals, intended for concrete producers, contractors, engineers and testing labs online between May 16 and 18. The course will feature a group discussion session on May 18 and examine the latest changes to the code and specification requirements (ACI 318, 301, ASTM C94) governing ready mixed concrete. It will address many topics, including: