Concrete Products

SEP 2012

Concrete Products covers the issues that attract producers of ready mixed and manufactured concrete focusing on equipment and material technology, market development and management topics.

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BRIEFS ACTIVITIES & APPOINTMENTS ronmental conditions for accomplishing the activities, and that prerequisites for the given activity have been satisfied. Further, the QAP provides for any special controls, processes, test equipment, tools, and skills needed to attain the required quality. The ACI Foundation Concrete Research Council (CRC) has announced $10,000 com- mitments to four projects: "Developing an In- formation Delivery Manual for Cast-in-Place Concrete Building Information Modeling (BIM)" and "Precast National BIM Standard – Phase III" under Georgia Tech School of Ar- chitecture Professor Charles Eastman, whose work is supported by ACI Committee 131, Building Information Modeling of Concrete Structures; "Round-Robin Test Series to Eval- uate Models Developed to Predict the Lateral Formwork Pressure when Using Self-Consoli- dating Concrete," under Swedish Cement and Concrete Research Institute's Peter Billberg, an ACI member active on Committees 237 and 238, Self-Consolidating Concrete and Workability of Fresh Concrete; and, "Model- ing Parameters and Proposed Acceptance Cri- teria for Rehabilitated Columns using Concrete, Steel, or FRP Jackets," under Sergio Breña, associate professor of Civil and Envi- ronmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who is active on ACI Committees including 318, Structural Con- crete Building Code. The CRC advances knowledge of concrete materials, construction, and structures through research. In coordination with ACI technical committees, it solicits and selects research proposals, assists in fi- nancing and guiding research, and helps publish results. The CRC provides direct co-funding for research projects and rec- ommends projects to other industry foun- dations for supplemental funding. Project funding depends on organizations that participate as CRC Sponsoring Members. In 2011, the council was able to leverage $33,000 of its research funds into well over $700,000 of concrete industry research work. MANUFACTURERS Ace-Co, a division of Libra Systems in Harleysville, Pa., has announced the addition of two new exclusive sales representatives lo- cated in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern Cen- tral regions of the United States. For more than 12 years, Plant-Tech Con- crete Solutions has been a leading provider of concrete plants, automation, and pro- duction equipment for the Mid-Atlantic States. PTCS will be the exclusive represen- WWW.CONCRETEPRODUCTS.COM SEPTEMBER 2012 | 25 tative for Ace-Co's concrete batch plant control products throughout Southern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Mead Equipment is an established distrib- utor of concrete plants and equipment that has been servicing a wide range of concrete producers in the Southern Central States for over 45 years. Mead Equipment will be Ace-Co's exclusive representative through- out Texas and Louisiana. "These two exceptional companies repre- sent outstanding product lines and both excel in customer service that has symbol- ized Ace-Co's long term commitment to the industry," said Ken Cardy, Libra's president. "We are excited to have them on-board and look forward to their continued success."

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