Concrete, Flyash, and the Environment - Proceedings

A forum held 8 December 1998 - Sponsored by EHDD Architecture and Pacific Energy Center

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Forum Presenters and Panelists

P.K. Mehta is Professor Emeritus in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored numerous papers on cementitious materials and properties of concrete including a textbook on the subject. He is an ACI Fellow and a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. He has received many awards including ACI's Wason Medal for materials research, the CANMET/ACI award for research on concrete in a marine environment, and the Mohan Malhotra Award for research on supplementary cementing materials.

Ron Middlebrook is a principal of Middlebrook + Louie Structural Engineers, where he has directed projects such as the Moscone Convention Center expansions, the 38 story Marriott Hotel at Yerba Buena Gardens, the 30 story Starwood Hotel, and many others. He held leadership positions with the Los Angeles based Martin Associates Group for 18 years in Washington D.C. and San Francisco, and worked for six years with Caudil Rowlett Scott in Houston and New York. He is past director of the Structural Engineers Association of California, and past President of the Northern California Chapter.

Scott Shell is an architect with EHDD Architects (formerly Esherick, Homsey, Dodge, and Davis) in San Francisco. He has served as Project Manager on a number of projects incorporating sustainable design strategies, including Ross Middle School, Fort Baker Sustainability Study, and Marin County Day School. He was Project Architect for Menlo College Library and Tenderloin School, and previously worked with Chester Bowles & Associates, and Moshe Safdie Architects. He has studied at Auburn University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and the American Institute of Indian Studies in Madurai.

Burt Lockwood is the Quality Control Manager for Shamrock Materials, a major Ready-Mix concrete supplier in Northern California. He has expertise and extensive experience in designing, testing, and batching a wide variety of concrete mix designs He has been with Shamrock Materials for over 17 years, and has ongoing interests in flyash and other pozzolans.

Jon Asselanis is a concrete petrographer and materials scientist at Schwein/Christensen Laboratories in Lafayette, California where he specializes in concrete and cementitious materials and failure analysis. He has a long-standing interest in researching alternative materials for construction. He spent 10 years running the concrete and materials laboratory at the U.C. Berkeley Civil Engineering Department, and prior to that was a geologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has degrees in Geology and in Engineering Science from U.C. Berkeley.