INSIDE
THIS ISSUE:
Presidents Message 2
Board Members 3
Calendar 4
Awards Meeting Recap 5
Spotlight 7
Fish Fry 8
ARMCA 10
Dues 11
Sponsors 12
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www.arkansaschapteraci.org
The Spotlight of
the Month is...
Have you ever been to our annual
fish fry? Details on page 8
President’s Message
Arkansas ACI Chapter Members:
It is hard to believe we are already halfway through 2015. This year has flown by quickly. I know many of you, like myself, would like a break in this rainy, gloomy weather that we have been having lately. Rain doesn’t allow for much con-crete work. I would once again like to thank Greg Campbell for an excellent job serving as chapter president in 2014. I have enjoyed getting to working with him & the other board members so far this year.
Your Arkansas ACI chapter is dedicated to serving the concrete industry of our state. We achieved an excellent chapter award for 2013 from ACI National & have done it once again in 2014. Great job everyone! I urge all our members to stay in touch with our chapter by placing www.arkansaschapteraci.org on your favorites list. This will keep you in touch with all of the events & news of the chapter. Please do not miss out on the seminars, fish fry, & other events in 2015.
For those members that were unable to make the annual meeting in January, there were two excellent concrete project awards presented & two doctorate candi-dates from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, made presentations on their research projects. The details are presented in this issue of your newsletter on page 5. Also, there are ACI student chapters existing & being formed at the various state universities.
The board is presently working on future seminars & a list of locations & speakers will be included in future news-letters. Also, everyone should have re-ceived a mailing or membership form in past newsletters about dues. A renewal would be appreciated & if you know someone that could benefit from a mem-bership in the Arkansas chapter, please encourage their participation.
Thanks for your support
Bryan Powers President
2015 ARKANSAS
CHAPTER, Officers
Past President: Greg Campbell Ash Grove Cement
Awards Program Committee Chair
President: Bryan Powers Concrete Consultant
Student Activities Committee Chair
Vice President: Jeffrey Copeland BASF
Educational Programs Committee Co-Chair
Sec/Treas: Linda Weaver Webco Mining Inc.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Steve Horton
Razorback Concrete
Awards Program Committee Co-Chair
Rita Madison
ARMCA
Educational Programs Committee Chair
Mark Littrell Cromwell Architects & Engineers
[email protected] Awards Program Committee Co-Chair
Frances Griffith University of Arkansas @ Fayetteville
Students Activities Committee Co-Chair
Larry Jones Baldwin & Shell Const.
Membership Committee Chair
Casey Jones Materials Testing of AR
Student Activities Committee Co-Chair
Jason Drake
Grace Performance Chemicals
Membership Committee Co-Chair
AR Chapter ACI, Inc.
Calendar
June 11, 2015 ACI 13th Annual
Membership Fish Fry Board Meeting beforehand See page 8 for more details.
September 9, 2015 ACI/ARMCA Seminar
Hampton Inn Texarkana, AR
More details to follow
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The Arkansas Chapter, ACI
Library is available for you!
The answers to many practical questions concerning
concrete construction can be found in the ACI Arkansas
Chapter Library. Chapter members can call the chapter
librarian, Rita Madison, at 501-663-8335 during business
hours of 8:00am to 4:00pm Monday through Friday or
email her at [email protected]. Leave a message if she is
out of the office & answers will usually be faxed or emailed
within 24 hours. We are here to serve our membership!
Keep up with our calendar on our website!
www.arkansaschapteraci.org
October 9, 2015 “Reorganized for Design Building Code” Seminar
AHTD Materials Bldg Little Rock, AR
More details to follow
Watch your email for more details on our
upcoming events.
Our Third Annual Meeting & Awards Program Luncheon was held on January 15, 2015 at the Baldwin & Shell offices in Little Rock. It was a great success. We gave out 2 Concrete Awards & had 2 students to present their research papers to our chapter.
Coreslab Structures (ARK), Inc. won in the category of “Project Under $6 million Contract Value”. Their project was the Ouachita School District P.E. Building/FEMA Shelter in Donaldson, AR.
Olympus Construction, Inc. won in the category of “Project Over $6 million Contract Value”. Their project was the Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery in Birdseye, AR.
CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH WINNERS!
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Third Annual Meeting & Awards
Program Luncheon
January 15, 2015
Our 2 students who presented papers in the Student Competition were Canh Dang
(winner) & Alberto Ramirez Garcia(runner-up).
Also at this meeting we installed our new Board Members for 2015 which you will
find on page 3.
Thank you to all those who attended. It was a great meeting! To all our members,
get ready for a great year! We have a lot in store for you!
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Canh Dang Alberto Ramirez Garcia
The students with their Professor, Dr. Micah Hale, U of A
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I would like to thank everyone who attended ARMCA’s 50th Annual Conven-tion. Even with the rain, it was a great success!. We wouldn’t have made it to 50 years without your faithful attendance so thanks! The convention was once again at the Embassy Suites & Hot Springs Con-vention Center in Hot Springs, AR. It was held on March 12-14, 2015. Unfortu-nately the golf tournament on Thursday was rained out. We still gave away some great door prizes and got ourselves ready for the 2nd annual bowling event that would follow later that night. On Friday, we held the Mixer Driver & Wheel Load-er competition along with seminars that followed immediately after. Saturday, began with a seminar & the annual business meeting. Soon after, we were off to the races at Oaklawn, then finishing off the weekend with our Annual Banquet Saturday night. We hope you sign up next year because it is destined to be another fantastic weekend. See you in Hot Springs 2016!
Rita Madison
Executive Director Arkansas Ready Mixed Concrete Association 501-663-8335
For our latest updates visit our website www.concretearkansas.org.
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October 7-8, 2015 ACI Concrete Field Testing
Technician Certification Little Rock, AR
October 29-30, 2015 ACI Concrete Field Testing
Technician Certification Jonesboro, AR
June 3, 2015 ARMCA Board Meeting
Little Rock, AR
September 10, 2015
ACI Concrete Field Testing Technician Certification
Texarkana, AR
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Our Sponsors for 2015
The Arkansas Chapter, ACI would like to thank our 2015
sponsors. Without their help, we would not be able to put
on the quality seminars & concrete conferences that we do
each year.
If you would like to be a 2015 sponsor, please contact
Linda Weaver at 501-796-2301 for a sponsorship form. This
list will be updated with every newsletter.
Silver Sponsors
Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel
Bronze Sponsors
APEX Redi Mixed Concrete Company
Arkansas Concrete Company
Baldwin & Shell Construction
Hatfield Ready Mix
Mountain View Ready Mix
Razorback Concrete Company
Webco Mining, Inc.
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