The Arthur J. Boase Award of the Concrete Research Council, established in 1971, is given in recognition of a person, persons, or an organization for outstanding research in the structural concrete field, or for outstanding contributions to the advancement of concrete technology through application of the results of structural concrete research. It is given in memory of a former chairman of the ACI Building Code Committee and ASCE Committee on Masonry and Reinforced Concrete, who was the driving force behind the creation of the Reinforced Concrete Research Council in 1948, now the Concrete Research Council. The award is a plaque suitably inscribed with the name of the recipient and the citation..

Nomination Form

An award for innovation in concrete has been established by CIC in memory of Jean-Claude Roumain, a long-time CIC supporter and Executive Committee member who passed away in January 2010.

The nomination period opens January 1 and closes August 1 each year. Awardees are recognized the following year at the spring ACI Concrete Convention.

Guidelines

Nominees should be individuals who have met one of the following conditions:

• Have contributed to innovative developments in concrete mixture proportioning, production of concrete, or concrete construction; or
• Have contributed to the improvement in the manufacture of materials used in the production of concrete, and used existing and new materials in innovative ways to improve concrete construction and serviceability; or
• Used concrete in innovative ways to contribute to a sustainable built environment.

Award Requirements

Nominees should be individuals whose work has met all of the following conditions:

• Innovation(s) must be original as evidenced by: technical publications, patents issued (provide patent numbers), adoption by a minimum of one mid- to large-size company in the industry (provide names), or having been identified by trade groups as “innovative.”
• Innovation(s) must not have been previously published in a technical journal or trade publication by someone other than the nominee.
• Innovation(s) should have sustainability benefits.

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Nomination Form