Administrative Committees

Board of Direction

(Organized 2009)
Chair: Claude Bedard

Membership Committee

(Organized 2005)
Chair: Beverly Garnant

Technology Management Committee (TMC)
Chair: Joseph Sanders

Mission: Facilitate the development and acceptance of technologies to benefit the concrete industry.

Goals:
  1. Identify new technologies with the potential to positively impact the concrete industry and arrange Technology Showcases at SDC Meetings.
  2. Shepherd technology showcase participants through the SDC path-finding process.
  3. Oversee the Technology Transfer Advisory Group (TTAG) and leverage the group’s exceptional knowledge and experience to review and advise on new technologies.
  4. Evaluate each technology presented to SDC for potential elevation to Industry Critical Technology (ICT) status.
  5. Monitor and oversee progress of ICT efforts.

Technology Transfer Advisory Group (TTAG)
(Organized 2010)
Chair: Emmanuel Attiogbe

Mission: Facilitate technology transfer.

Goals:
  1. Review industry-critical technologies identified by SDC and provide guidance on moving such technologies into practice.
  2. Provide recommendations through SDC to ACI’s Technical Activities Committee (TAC) on the appropriate approach to document development on new technologies within ACI.
  3. Assist champions of new technology on integrating their technologies into the ACI process.
  4. Disseminate information on new and emerging technologies through sessions held at ACI Fall Conventions.

Accelerated Technology Implementation Teams

Building Information Modeling

(2010)
Chair: Robert Risser

Mission: SDC has identified BIM as an Industry Critical Technology. This ATI web page is designed to house and coordinate all efforts of SDC in support of BIM in the concrete industry.

Goals: This BIM Accelerated Technology Implementation (ATI) team is the arm of SDC that works to identify obstacles to industry adoption of BIM, formulates strategies to address obstacles, and determines specific tasks to execute strategies.

Cracking

(Organized 2011)
Chair: Brian Green

Mission: SDC has identified Cracking as an Industry Critical Technology (ICT). This ATI web page is designed to house and coordinate all efforts of SDC in support of the Cracking ICT in the concrete industry.

Goals: This Cracking Accelerated Technology Implementation (ATI) team is the arm of SDC that supports efforts on the Cracking ICT.

Vision 2020

(Organized 2010)
Chair: K Nam Shiu

Self-Consolidating Concrete

(Organized 2005)
Chair: William Phelan

Mission: SDC has identified Self Consolidating Concrete (SCC) as an Industry Critical Technology. This ATI web page is designed to house and coordinate all efforts of SDC in support of SCC in the concrete industry.

Goals: This SCC Accelerated Technology Implementation (ATI) team is the arm of SDC that works to identify obstacles to industry adoption of SCC, formulates strategies to address obstacles, and determines specific tasks to execute strategies.