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On October 28, Build With Strength Director, Building Innovations, Justin McCain hosted the Texas Low Carbon Concrete Roundtable in Houston, aiming to educate stakeholders on sustainable concrete successes throughout Texas and to encourage them to build with concrete to maximize longterm value and resilience. NRMCA partnered with several members and industry experts to deliver the event to a group of approximately 50 attendees (seen here) who included ready mix producers, material manufacturers, architects, engineers, owners, general contractors and consultants. Notable attendee companies included Ash Grove Cement, Bechtel, the Cement Council of Texas, Chryso, Fluor, Kirksey Architecture, Koy Concrete, Matagorda Concrete, Page and Texas Lehigh Cement.

NRMCA Senior Director, Local Paving, Greg Halsted and Clay Slocum, director of engineering with the California Nevada Cement Association (CNCA), recently hosted an Open House on an active roller-compacted concrete (RCC) pavement project in Chico, CA. Held on October 29 on the Bruce Road Reconstruction project, the event attracted approximately 50 individuals (seen here), including local Concrete Industry Management program students, regional, city and county public works officials, designers, engineers and even a few local homeowners, Halsted said.