For the award competition, universities were selected based on the number of ACI members in the student chapter, on students’ and faculty members’ participation in ACI competitions, committees, conventions and meetings, and participation in other concrete industry-related activities. Universities were also judged on community outreach efforts by student and faculty involving neighborhood revitalization, construction projects and donated services. The ACI noted the impressive achievements of the ASU student chapter in only five years since it was formed.

ACI Excellent University Award winners were formally announced at the institute’s national convention.

NRMCA once again volunteered to create special business cards for the CIM students and they gave them during the registration event. Robert and Nicholas were assigned a booth to help guests with their conference registration. At 6:30 pm we attended the welcoming reception. It was a great opportunity to network and learn about new products and processes in the concrete industry. Larry Silvi, President of Silvi Group, was among the attendees. CIM students were also assigned a CIM booth to promote the program.

NJIT ACI Student Chapter attended the NJIT Club Fair on campus. The chapter president Christopher Worthington along with John Te, CIM junior student, attended a booth among all the clubs and organizations of the university. The ACI Student Chapter was promoted along with CIM program. Many students stopped by to ask about both programs and signed up for more information via email. CIM Specialist Anlee Orama was also present promoting the program to a live crowd of students.

Kenneth A. Lewis, Managing Director, Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) discussed the development, design and provided an update on One World Trade Center (The Freedom Tower) construction.  He focused on the challenges and aspirations of designing a super-tall building on the World Trade Center site.  He also discussed the innovations, sustainability and life safety enhancements of the tower and their impact on the design of tall buildings. we would like to truly thank Kenneth for the wonderful and insightful presentation. We would like to thank the following companies who sponsored our students dinner: Tanis and sons, Weldon Materials,  Hycrete, Lafarge, and L.M. Scofield.

We would like to deliver a great thank you to the following NJ ACI Chapter Officers for their great effort supporting our program : Rich Liptack, the President of NJ ACI Chapter, Casimir Bognacki, the Treasurer, Dianne Johnston, the Executive Director, and Allyn Luke, Steve Zimmerman, John Burdi, and Mark Wierciszewski , the Directors.

Wilton also had an amazing experience working with Hycrete Inc. Hycrete specializes in integral waterproofing and corrosion protection contrary to other conventional methods such as external membrane protection. Wilton was involved in a wide spectrum of tasks ranging from duties in the office, laboratory, and field. In the office, Wilton performed market research to better understand and anticipate scope of work to be done in laboratory. Chemical admixture evaluations between company and competitors were carried out in laboratory to identify strengths and weaknesses in products. Last but not least, field work involving use of Hycrete products in concrete was managed by Wilton and his team to assure adherence to specifications and codes. I could only say that the experience our CIM students obtain before graduation is leading edge and invaluable.