American Concrete Institute
| American Concrete Institute (ACI) |
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| founding | 1904 |
| Seat |
Farmington Hills , United States
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| main emphasis | concrete |
| Action space | worldwide |
| people | Florian G. Barth (President 2009) |
| Members | approx. 20,000 |
| Website | www.concrete.org/ |
The American Concrete Institute (ACI) is a concrete construction not- for -profit company founded in 1904 and headquartered in Farmington Hills , Michigan . The institute has over 20,000 members in over 100 countries.
history
The forerunner organization of the ACI was informally founded in October 1904 at an engineering convention during a trade fair in St. Louis . The original idea for founding the company was to create an association for the manufacturers of concrete machines that trains suitable machine operators for these machines. The idea was expanded to spread general skills and specialist knowledge for the building material concrete and cement . The society initially met as the National Association of Cement Users from January 17 to 19, 1905 in Indianapolis , renamed itself on July 2, 1913 to the American Concrete Institute . The first president was Richard L. Humphrey, who remained until 1914. The ACI brought out the first specialist publication in 1929 in the form of a journal . Since its inception, an ordinary meeting has taken place once a year, and the first congress in Montreal in 1956 was the first time the Society met outside the United States. In 1959 the ACI had over 10,000 members for the first time, in 1974 over 16,000 members and since 1990 over 20,000 members. In the meantime, national branches of the company have formed in other countries and close contacts have developed with similar societies around the world.
tasks
The company established over 400 standards for concrete and its use, issues technical publications such as the two-week ACI Structural Journal and the ACI Materials Journal as well as the monthly Concrete International , conducts its own material research , issues certifications and recognizes particularly outstanding concrete structures, civil engineers or technical publications. In addition, the ACI offers its members special training seminars, organizes international conferences and specialist meetings and provides an extensive database of information and specialist articles on structural concrete construction.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief historical outline of the ACI ( Memento of October 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Detailed history of the ACI ( Memento from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf; 7.0 MB)