Agenda - Kansas City History of Concrete, Committee 120

Tuesday, November 8, 2005 2-3:30 pm; C 2215C

1) Welcome and Introductions 2) Status of articles, 2005 articles in Concrete International,

a) “Repair of an Historical Monument” Michael Paul, January b) “Concrete Landmarks in Florida” Joseph and Debby Amon, June c) “Concrete in the Crescent City “Mark Cheek, October d) “Grave Yard Concrete” Billie Snell and Debbie Amon Accepted for publication

3) Review of Monday session How we did, how it went , etc 4) Session every 18 months?

a) Session would be in Atlanta- April, 2006, Theme” Hardscape (1) Puerto Rico, October, 2007, Theme “Bridge to the Americas” (2) Los Angles, March, 2008 (3) St. Louis, November, 2008, Theme “The Spirit of Concrete” (4) San Antonio, March, 2009

b) Potential themes (1) Artifacts - emphasis on thing we have collected (2) Development of standards and codes - how we got to where we are (3) Concrete in the Americas (4) Historical concrete from around the world (5) Anything goes, History of Concrete (6) Others?

(a) Depression Era Concrete Construction? c) Moderators and chair of sessions?

5) Committee Presentation for Charlotte and Denver 6) Presentations at the World of Concrete – Hoover Dam 7) Presentation by Jennifer Tanner “Restabilization of the Bradford Perely House in Colorado, A Historic Masonry Building constructed in the late 1800" 8) Adjournment

Unique jobsite tourtakes place theSunday before Wo r l dof Concrete.

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The World of Concrete 2006Editorial Tour–Hoover DamBypass is the perfect oppor-tunity to tour one of theworld’s most famous concreteprojects. But that’s not all.

This is the site where anew four-lane bridge isbeing built one-quartermile downstream fromthe dam over theColorado River. Learn all thatthis massive project entails.

Buses will leave Door 9of the Las Vegas ConventionCenter’s Central Hall at 12:30

p.m., Sunday, Jan. 15, andreturn to the conventioncenter at 5:30 p.m.

We will visit the ap-proach to the new bridge.Managers from Casino ReadyMix, the producer that’s

pouring the concrete forthe project, will talk

about the challengesand opportunities they

face. Buses also will stop atCasino’s nearby plant.

Representatives fromSika Corp., the tour’s sponsor,will talk about the concrete

admixtures used in the mixdesigns. Contributing editorRichard Szecsy of LattimoreMaterials will discuss how self-consolidating concrete is beingused in the project, and con-crete historian Luke Snell willgive a presentation on thes i t e ’s history.

Attendees will go to theVisitor’s Center to learn aboutthe history of the dam. A box

lunch will be served, andbuses will return to the con-vention center at approxi-mately 5:30 p.m.

Everyone on the tourwill receive a souvenir hardhat and a copy of Szecsy’spresentation on CD-ROM.

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An overhead view of HooverDam. The approach to the

new bridge is on the far right.

Two constructioni n d u s t ry pros—RickYelton, editor in chiefof TH E CO N C R E T EPR O D U C E R and MA S O N RYCO N S T R U C T I O N, and BillP a l m e r, editor in chief

of CO N C R E T E CO N S T R U C T I O N, RE S I D E N T I A L CO N C R E T E, and PU B L I CWO R K S magazines—will accompany the tour.

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