The National Concrete Consortium (NCC/NC2) held its spring meeting April 25-27 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hosted by the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) in Salt Lake City, the meeting had 172 attendees from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), 30 DOTs, the Illinois Tollway, academia, and industry. The 2 1⁄2-day spring meeting was an excellent event focused on improving concrete performance and structural concrete applications. Maria Masten, Concrete Materials Engineer-Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), is the current chairperson.
The DOTs held a breakfast meeting the first day that included CPTech Center updates and six state agenda items. The general session consisted of 29 topics covered by 13 from state agencies, 4 from FHWA, 6 from academia, and 4 from the industry sector. The technical tour was adjusted due to rainfall to visit the Old castle precast facility in Ogden, Utah.
2017 marked the 20th anniversary of the formation on MC2/NC2. The first meeting of the Midwest Concrete Consortium (MC2) was held in Olympia Fields, Illinois and consisted of the 10 state members of FHWA Regions 5 and 7, as well as industry and academia. 32 individuals attended the initial meeting. As MC2 became more national, in 2008 it morphed into NC2. A brief history of the consortium’s formation and the first project site visit on K96 in 1997 was presented. Seven of the original 32 attendees were at the 2017 meeting.
The Fall 2017 NC2 meeting will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 19-21, 2017.
For all technical presentations, please go to: http://www.cptechcenter.org/ncc/TTCC-NCC-2017.cfm
To read all of the details and the meeting agenda, please go to: http://www.cptechcenter.org/ncc/2017%20Spring%20NC2/SP17%20NC2%20Summary.pdf.
For the NC2 website, please go to: http://www.cptechcenter.org/ncc/.