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The Portland Cement Association (PCA) Education Foundation recently awarded the following three graduate students with educational fellowships.

• University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Sean Hayman
Professor Michael D.A. Thomas
Title: The Durability of Concrete Exposed to Potassium Acetate

• University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
Steven Barbachyn
Professor Yahya C. (Gino) Kurama
Title: Nominal Shear Strength Limits for Short Diagonally-Reinforced Coupling Beams

• Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Charles Hope
Professor W. Spencer Guthrie
Title: Full-Depth Reclamation Using Cement Slurry and Microcracking

The PCA Education Foundation Research Fellowship identifies and rewards outstanding masters and doctoral students in the fields of engineering and physical sciences who are studying areas that advance the science and technology of cement and concrete.  PCA’s Education Foundation presents the students with $20,000 each for university and study costs.

PCA established the Foundation in 2001 to help finance education programs in nearly every facet of the cement and concrete industries, from university research fellowships to career recruitment and craft training.

On August 17, 2009, Michael McSweeney, Vice-President, Industry Affairs of the Cement Association of Canada gave the opening remarks at the Ottawa annual conference of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) “Changing Times”. AMO is a non-profit organization representing alm ... Read more...

The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) is an organization of partners collaborating to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Each Partner's jurisdiction which includes British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia has agreed to take cooperative actions to address climate change and imp ... Read more...

New Environmentally-Friendly Cement Type The 2009 edition of the CSA A23.1 Concrete Materials and Methods of Concrete Construction Standard references a new class of cement called "Portland-limestone cement" (PLC). While PLC has been used in Europe for over 25 years, it is new to Canada. This follo ... Read more...

The Cement Association of Canada (CAC) recently provided comments on the proposed Ontario Government legislation for toxics risk management to the Standing Committee on General Government. The three recommendations put forward by CAC related to avoiding overlap and duplication, providin ... Read more...