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Top executives of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) recently paid a short visit to South Africa to meet Cement and Concrete SA (CCSA) management to reconfirm the international partnership ACI holds with the SA body.

ACI president Dr Charles Nmai and Bernie Pekor, the institute’s director of international business development, held discussions with CCSA’s CEO Bryan Perrie and business development manager Hanlie Turner.

The ACI, one of the world’s leading concrete associations, was founded in 1904. The non-profit technical society and standards-developing organisation has a mission to “develop and disseminate consensus-based knowledge on concrete and its uses”. Its headquarters are in Michigan, USA and it has an international office in Dubai, UAE, as well as regional offices in California, Illinois and Maryland. Globally, the ACI has a membership of over 30 000 and a student membership of about 15 000. In addition, it has 93 global chapters, over 250 student chapters and 64 international partners.

Turner says CCSA is one of the institute’s international partners. “This valuable collaboration substantially promotes global concrete excellence by making the technical expertise of each organisation available to fellow partners through publications, meetings, conferences, Internet links, committee membership, certification activities and other channels. Some benefits for CCSA include our members having complimentary access to