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Three Midwesterners Get PCA Fellowships
Three Midwest graduate students were recipients of the Portland
Cement Association Education Foundation Research Fellowships.
Jeremy Baugh, University of Wisconsin at Madison, "Use
of Cement Kiln Dust for Reconstruction of Bituminous Roads,"
Professor Tuncer Edil.
John Kevern, Iowa State University, "Investigation
into the Effect of Aggregate on the Freeze-Thaw Durability
of Pervious Concrete," professors Kejin Wang and Vernon
Schaefer.
Alexandra Wayllace, University of Missouri at Columbia,
"Innovative Reuse of Cement Manufacturing Byproducts:
Hydrologic Modeling of Artificial Soil as an Evapotranspirative
Cover System," Professor William Likos.
The Skokie-based PCA gave awards to six students in total,
and the three others were outside the Midwest.
The PCA Education Foundation presented the students with $20,000
each for university and study costs.
Green Show Growing, Publication Says
The U.S. Green Building Council's Greenbuild International
Conference and Expo is one of the 50 fastest-growing trade
shows in the U.S. and Canada, according to Tradeshow Week,
a news magazine of the exhibition industry.
Greenbuild debuted in 2002 and has since more than doubled
in growth.
The 2005 event was held in Atlanta and had an attendance
of nearly 10,000 people with 582 exhibitor booths. The inaugural
event had more than 4,000 attendees and 220 booths.
Six Midwesterners Named ARTBA Officers
Six Midwesterners were elected officers or directors of
the Washington, D.C.-based American Road and Transportation
Builders Association for 2006-07.
First Vice Chairman is Charles Potts, CEO of Indianapolis-based
Heritage Construction & Materials; the Central Region
Vice Chairman is Larry Tate, product manager, Caterpillar
Inc. in Decatur, Ill.; and the Vice Chairman At-Large is
Jim Connell, group president of Chicago-based Energy Absorption
Systems Inc.
Three from the Midwest were elected to a three-year term
as ARTBA directors: Joseph Kneib, vice president of market
development of St. Joseph, Mo.-based Herzog Contracting
Corp.; James Piekarczyk, county engineer of the Kankakee
County Highway Department in Illinois; and Larry Thomas,
president of Chicago-based H.W. Lochner, Inc.
AEM Offers Online Database For Equipment
Safety Materials
The Milwaukee-based Association of Equipment Manufacturers
has completed phase one of a database of industry recognized
pictorial illustrations for voluntary use in the design
of equipment safety signs, manuals and other training materials.
AEM developed this database to promote greater consistency
and clarity among pictorial images so they are more recognizable
by industry workers, thus enhancing safety. The pictorials
are offered free of charge.
The database can be accessed via the association's website
at www.aem.org and is searchable by categories and keywords.
It currently includes almost 100 pictorials that are common
to many industry segments and product lines, and covers
both hazard identification and hazard avoidance.
The AEM pictorial database is meant to be a dynamic resource,
and the association invites input from database users and
others with an interest in safety-related pictorials.
The association plans to expand the database with product-
and process-specific graphics.
AEM provides links for online visitors to respond with questions,
comments and recommendations. Visitors can also submit for
consideration graphics that are not already included in
the database. To prevent the material from growing unwieldy,
AEM will continue to screen submissions and apply a "best-practices"
approach to new additions.
The database is available at http://www.aem.org/technical/pictorialdatabase/
with pictorials downloadable in .eps and .dxf format.
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