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Environment, Health &
Safety Track
Concrete Applications:
Quality & Performance Track
Industry Education &
Training Track
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About the RMC
Research & Education Foundation
When the RMC Research & Education Foundation was established in 1991,
leaders within the concrete industry saw an opportunity to
pool resources together to help improve the industry. Back
then, funding was modest and essentially used for as-needed
projects such as laboratory equipment for the A. H. Smith
Research Laboratory (see right) or to start up revolutionary educational
programs like the Certified Concrete Sales Professional
Program.
Today, eight years since the kick-off of the Building a
Strong Foundation for the Future fundraising campaign,
the RMC Research & Education Foundation is growing strong and putting
the generous contributions of the concrete and construction
community members to work to fund programs that are helping
to improve an already superior product in an industry
committed to excellence. These projects are helping to
demonstrate that the concrete industry is:
- Dedicated to strong
environmental stewardship,
- Concerned with
protecting the safety of its workforce,
- Working toward
improving broad concrete applications, and
- Devoted to
strengthening the education and training of current and
future professionals within the industry.
The research and educational programs supported by the RMC
Research
& Education
Foundation represent a broad spectrum of projects
that are helping to keep the concrete industry on the
cutting edge. The quest of reaching a $20 million endowment,
the interest from which will provide approximately $1
million annually in program funding in perpetuity, is
aggressive but attainable. The mission of keeping the
concrete industry forever moving forward has only just
begun.
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Project Funding Summary Booklet
One Million Pound
Compression
Testing Machine purchased by the RMC Research &
Education Foundation in 1993 for use at the
A.H. Smith Research Lab.
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