Please join us on September 15 for our first ACI CNY meeting of the season!

4:30 PM Board Meeting
5:30 PM Registration
6:00 PM Presentation & Dinner
(provided by the DoubleTree)

$40 Member
$50 Non-member
$15 Student

Registration due by Thursday, 9/9.

Dr. Ken Hover will be discussing how compressive strength cylinders are treated vs. the structure's exposure and discuss in-place testing of hardened concrete and each method's pros and cons.

Presented by: Dr. Ken Hover

Ken Hover worked for Dugan & Meyers Construction Co. in Cincinnati as an estimator, Assistant Superintendent, Project Engineer, and Project Manager. After serving as a Captain in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, Ken joined THP Ltd. Consulting Engineers as a designer spec-writer, and eventually Partner and Manager. Under a grant designed to bring experienced engineers to university faculty, and Ken earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Cornell, where he teaches reinforced and prestressed concrete design. His research concentrates on hot and cold weather concreting, concrete and masonry testing and durability, with emphasis on the effects of weather and construction operations on concrete testing, performance and durability. He developed and taught the Federal Highway Administration course in concrete mixture proportioning.

Ken's over 200 publications address freeze thaw durability, scaling resistance, air-entrained concrete and cold and hot-weather concrete. He has been a top-ranked technical speaker at the World of Concrete for over 20 years. He has earned the top teaching awards in Civil Engineering, the College of Engineering, and at Cornell University, and holds ACI’s and ACPA’s Educators Award, and ACI’s Structural Research Award, Philleo Research Award, and Arthur Anderson Award from ACI. Ken is Past-President of ACI, and member and past chair of several ACI committees. He earned NRMCA’s Gaynor Award, is a Distinguished Member of ASCE, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Concrete Technology in the UK, and an Honorary Member of ACI. He is a licensed engineer in Ohio and New York. At World of Concrete in 2006, he was named “One of the 10 most influential people in the US concrete industry.”

Tickets

$40.00 Member Ticket

$50.00 Guest Ticket

$15.00 Student Ticket