ACI Soliciting Information on Notable Concrete Use in St. Louis Area

The American Concrete Institute (ACI) will hold its international convention in St. Louis from Nov. 2-8. In preparation the local ACI Committee 124 is preparing a compendium of notable concrete in the Metropolitan St. Louis area for distribution at the convention.

The committee is soliticiting thumbnail images and brief descriptions of notable concrete (cast-in-place, precast, post-tensioned, FRP, masonry, tilt-up, etc.) in all types of uses: buildings, monuments, pavement, silos, bridges, crypts, furniture, retaining walls, utility poles, tanks, sculpture, culverts, plazas, and any other interesting use.

Significance may be historical, aesthetic, functional, structural, construction-related, unusual use or application, or simply personal affection.

Requirements for submission:

• name and location of submission (Location information should be sufficient to enable discovery by reader.);
• thumbnail image [photograph, drawing, or sketch] that is not copyrighted;
• one or two sentence description that establishes significance;
• submitter's name, title, organization, city and state, telephone, and e-mail.

Submit all information in electronic format (postcard-size image as JPEG or TIFF file, text in email or as MSWord document).

Deadline: Submissions by May 1, 2008.

Send to: Michael J. Paul, Duffield Associates, 211 North 13th Street, Suite 704, Philadelphia, PA, 19107; tel. 215.545.7295.

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