Designing Concrete for
Seminar Overview
Durable concrete is sustainable concrete and sustainable concrete must be durable. The construction industry is changing quickly to be more sustainable which includes lowering the embodied carbon per yard of concrete. How does this affect your project, your specification, and your production? This seminar will review the requirements for specifying, producing and constructing with durable concrete and how to do all this while lowering the embodied carbon per cubic yard.
Who Should Attend?
- Specifiers
- Contractors
- Engineers
- Materials Suppliers
- Designers
Topics Include:
- Concrete 101
- Aggregates
- Cement, SCMs, and Hydration
- Plastic Properties and Admixtures
- General Durability/Permeability
- Freeze/Thaw Durability
- Alkali Aggregate Reactivity
- Sulfate/Chemical Attack
- Corrosion and Lifecycle Analysis
- Why Sustainable?
- Optimized Mix Designs
- Code, Standards, and Specifications
- Constructability
- Limitations and Risk
- Specialty Concrete Application (Cellular Concrete, RCC, Mass, SCC, High Volume Replacement, New Products)
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Event Logistics and Accommodations
When: February 26-27, 2024 @ 8 AM
Where: Embassy Suites Hotel, 2401 Bass Pro Drive, Grapevine, TX, 76051
If you plan to attend our event and require accommodation, you may reserve a room under the Braun Intertec hotel block at Embassy Suites Hotel no later than February 6th, 2024.
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Cost
The cost per person for the event is $495.
Lunch and snacks will be provided for both days.
Braun Intertec is proud to partner with The ACI Foundation and contribute all event proceeds towards the ACI 2023 Undergraduate Durability Scholarship.
Scholarship Information
The ACI Foundation supports various research and educational initiatives that drive advancements in material composition, design, and construction within the concrete industry. They engage with industry partners, invest in students and research, share knowledge, and provide programs to foster innovation and new technologies.
The ACI 201 Undergraduate Concrete Durability Scholarship will award $5000 annually to an undergraduate student who is in a degree program that covers construction related to design, education, or materials, and that demonstrate an interest in durability.
Meet the Speakers
Oscar Antommattei, MS, PE, FACI
Kiewit Corporation
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Oscar Antommattei is chief concrete engineer and materials engineering manager with Kiewit Corporation. He leads Kiewit’s engineering technical services for concrete—from design to production and construction. Prior to joining Kiewit in 2012, he also worked in design and forensic investigations with an engineering consultant. Oscar is a fellow to the American Concrete Institute (ACI) where he serves as a member on the board of direction, Technical Activities Committee, ACI Foundation Concrete Innovation Council, and technical committees with interest in durability, constructability, mass concrete, hot weather, low carbon concrete and curing, including the ACI 321 Concrete Durability Code and the ACI 323 Low-Carbon Concrete Code. He also serves in ASTM, ASCE, CSA, ASCC and TRB committees. In 2019 he was recognized as one of the Most Influential People in the Concrete Industry in the United States.
Alfred Gardiner, PE
Braun Intertec Corporation
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Alfred Gardiner is the concrete technical leader and a principal engineer at Braun Intertec. He oversees forensics on concrete failures, development of new products and troubleshoots issues on construction projects. He previously worked in the cement industry as a technical service engineer for Holcim (US). He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in civil engineering from the University of Ottawa. He is a registered professional engineer in Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, North Dakota, Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio. He is the past chair of the ACI Committee 221 – Aggregates, is a member of ASTM committee CO9, and the current chair of the certification committee at MCC/ACI MN Chapter.
Dr. R. Douglas Hooton, PhD, PE
Concrete Durability Associates Inc.
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Douglas Hooton, PhD, PE, is the president of Concrete Durability Associates Inc. in Toronto with a focus on concrete durability and sustainability. He is also a professor emeritus and holds the title of NSERC/Cement Association of Canada Senior Industrial Research Chair in Concrete Durability and Sustainability at the University of Toronto where he taught for 35 years and continues to supervise graduate students. He is an honorary member of ACI, RILEM, and ASTM committees C01 & C09. He chairs ACI C201 on durability, ACI C130A on sustainability, ASTM C01 on cements, and CSA committee A23.1 on concrete. His research for the last 49 years has focused on concrete sustainability, durability, the fundamentals of cementitious materials as well as improving performance test methods for fluid transport properties, sulfate resistance, freeze-thawing resistance, and ASR mitigation.
Vincent Lapointe, P.Eng, M.Sc
SIMCO Technologies
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Vincent Lapointe is director of business development at SIMCO Technologies, an engineering firm dedicated to the durability of concrete infrastructures, and is responsible for development initiatives in Canada, the United States and Europe. Over the years, he has developed extensive experience in the condition assessment of concrete structures and the prediction of service life. Mr. Lapointe is an active member of ICRI, ACI, and ASTM and previously served as the president of his local ACI chapter and chair of the ICRI 160 committee for life cycle and sustainability. He holds a master’s degree in civil engineering from Laval University where his studies were focused on chloride-induced corrosion initiation threshold and propagation in concrete.
Dr. Larry Sutter, PhD, PE
Sutter Engineering, LLC
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Larry Sutter is principal of Sutter Engineering, LLC. He is also a professor emeritus and a research professor in materials science and engineering at Michigan Technological University. His areas of focus are concrete durability, the use of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), and the advancement of alternative cements and SCMs. He is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), chairman of Committee 321 Concrete Durability Code, vice-chairman of ACI Committee 232 Fly Ash, and secretary of ACI Committee 201 Concrete Durability. He is president of the board for the ACI Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete (NEU). He is also a fellow of ASTM and a member of committees C01 and C09, serving as vice chair of committee C09 and chairman of subcommittees C01.14 Non-Hydraulic Cements and C09.24 on supplementary cementitious materials. He is a registered professional engineer in Michigan.
Dr. Peter C. Taylor, PhD, PE
National Concrete Pavement Technology Center
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Peter Taylor is the director of the National Concrete Pavement Technology Center and research professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University. He assists agencies and contractors in implementing best practices in concrete pavement design, construction, and maintenance. His research is focused on developing sustainable mixtures that are engineered to meet the requirements of the environment that it will be used in and developing test methods to prove that a mixture on site is going to survive. He is a professional engineer and active in several professional societies.
Dr. Timothy Tonyan, PhD
Braun Intertec
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Timothy Tonyan has over 40 years of experience in the construction industry, including leadership of an internationally recognized consulting engineering and construction materials testing firm. He has extensive experience in construction consulting, building systems research and intellectual property development, forensic investigations and litigation support on building materials, the building envelope, construction scheduling and delay claims analysis. Dr. Tonyan joined Braun Intertec in 2022 as the vice president for the building and structure sciences (BaSS) group. He holds a doctorate in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a member of both the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the Scientific Research Honor Society, Sigma Xi, and has had his research published in many notable building and construction journals.
Joni Jones, PE
Braun Intertec
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Joni Jones is a director of concrete science at Braun
Intertec where she brings extensive experience in project and laboratory
management, along with a strong background in consulting for construction
materials testing. Her expertise lies in efficiently managing multiple projects
across various construction and materials markets. She excels in overseeing
technical staff and laboratory facilities. As part as her technical role, Joni
leads a team that collaborates closely with forensic engineers and architects.
The team’s mission is to assist in conducting comprehensive condition surveys
for existing structures. Their support through NDE techniques, sample
extractions, and laboratory testing play a critical role in decision-making and
design processes for concrete repair and restoration projects.