An Executive Forum for Collaborative Research
The Vision: The Strategic Development Council (SDC)
shall bring together the concrete industry, along with government,
academia, and customers, to focus on collaborative problem-solving
in meaningful technology advancement. The result shall be the expeditious movement
of meaningful innovations through the standardization process into
commercial use.
The Mission...
The SDC shall facilitate advancement
of concrete technology by:
Since its founding in 1997, the SDC has facilitated consortia
that have united developers, producers, and customers on market-driven
technology needs and produced results that have advanced the
state
of concrete construction technology.
More recently, the SDC has begun to focus attention on "industry
critical technologies" in the concrete industry and identify
barriers to their technology acceptance, and
is beginning
to concentrate resources
to remove those barriers.
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