Strategic Development Council

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Strategic Development Council

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What is the Strategic Development Council
(SDC)?
The SDC consists of organizations from the
concrete industry represented by their top level
executives who have a common goal best described
by SDCs Vision Statement.
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SDC Vision Statement

• Bring together the concrete industry, along with
  government, academia and customers, to focus on
  collaborative problem-solving in meaningful
  technology advancement. The result shall be the
  expeditious movement of meaningful innovations
  through the standardization process into
  commercial use.

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What is the advantage of the (SDC)?
Leadership, defined as enabling,
facilitating, and expediting
SDC can focus on areas within the concrete
industry that are

• acknowledged to be an issue
• extend beyond a single or few interests in the
  concrete industry

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What is the SDCs relationship to theAmerican
Concrete Institute (ACI)?
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The Strategic Development Council (SDC) is one of
three councils of ConREF.
Concrete Research and Education Foundation
(ConREF)
Concrete Research Council
Scholarship Council
Strategic Development Council
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And ConREF is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the
American Concrete Institute.
ConREF
Concrete Research Council
Strategic Development Council
Scholarship Council
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What is the SDCs rolein the concrete industry?
The role of SDC is to facilitate advancement of
concrete technology and can best be described by
examples of its past and current activities.
SDCs activities can be grouped into three
distinct areas outlined in the SDC Mission
Statement.
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Mission Statement

• The SDC shall facilitate advancement of concrete
  technology by
• Providing a forum for visioning and
  prioritization of key challenges facing the
  concrete industry
• Assisting ACI in timely adoption of innovative
  technologies, problem solutions, and best
  practices
• Providing a framework for consortia-directed
  development programs leading to or supporting
  improved commercialization

Revised 11-04
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Mission Statement

• The SDC shall facilitate advancement of concrete
  technology by
• Providing a forum for visioning and prioritizing
  key challenges facing the concrete industry
• Assisting ACI in timely adoption of innovative
  technologies, problem solutions, and best
  practices
• Providing a framework for consortia-directed
  development programs leading to or supporting
  improved commercialization

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forum for visioning

• Vision 2030
• A Vision for the U.S. Concrete Industry
• Accelerating Technology Acceptance (ATA)
• Vision 2020
• Concrete Repair Industrys Vision of the
  Future
• ConREFs
• Concrete Recruitment Workshop

For more information on any of the above, visit
the www.concretesdc.org.
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Mission Statement

• The SDC shall facilitate advancement of concrete
  technology by
• Providing a forum for visioning and
  prioritization of key challenges facing the
  concrete industry
• Assisting ACI in timely adoption of innovative
  technologies, problem solutions, and best
  practices
• Providing a framework for consortia-directed
  development programs leading to or supporting
  improved commercialization

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timely adoption

• Guide for Concrete Slabs to Receive
  Moisture-Sensitive Floor Coverings
• Identified by SDC as an Industry Critical
  Technology
• Goal is to move this document through the ACI
  consensus process to the public in two years
  compared to typical 8-12 years
• Pre-eminent example of the use of SDCs
  Accelerating Technology Acceptance (ATA) process
  
• SDC working with ACI Committee 302 Construction
  of Concrete Floors to accomplish a timely adoption

For more information on the above, visit the
www.concretesdc.org.
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Mission Statement

• The SDC shall facilitate advancement of concrete
  technology by
• Providing a forum for visioning and
  prioritization of key challenges facing the
  concrete industry
• Assisting ACI in timely adoption of innovative
  technologies, problem solutions, and best
  practices
• Providing a framework for consortia-directed
  development programs leading to or supporting
  improved commercialization

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consortia-directed development

• Consortium 40 Concrete Floor Issues
• Consortium 41 Self Consolidating Concrete
• Consortium 44 Performance Based
  Specifications
• Consortium ?? Cracking
• Consortium ?? Sustainability (Green)
• Action Group - ATA

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SDCs Current Focus

• To
• Identify critical industry technologies
• Identify barriers to technology acceptance
• Act as a catalyst to remove the barriers
• This is the outline of the SDCs ATA
• (Accelerating Technology Acceptance)

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ATA

• ATA is becoming a buzzword for urgency and
  the need for timely action.
• Issues identified with ATA are creating a sense
  of urgency among those involved.

For more information on the above, visit the
www.concretesdc.org.
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Visit the SDC website at www.concretesdc.org

• For more information, contact
• Douglas Sordyl, P.E., LEED AP
• Managing Director, SDC
• [phone]
• douglas.sordyl_at_concretesdc.org