ACI & Concrete - Global & Local

Please join us to hear more about the Mission and Education that ACI plays in our industry and what to look forward to as we move into the future.  Michael J. Paul is the current President of ACI and will share his experiences from his 40+ year career in construction and engineering.  As a highly recognized leader in the concrete industry, he currently serves as the Principal Structural Engineer in the Philadelphia, PA office of Larsen & Landis, Inc.  His expertise includes troubleshooting, repair, restoration and rehabilitation of existing concrete structures in addition to new structure design.  Included in the presentation will be his Take-aways from a term as ACI president, focusing on our chapter and two ACI Centers of Excellence.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:

Michael J. Paul, FACI,  A Fellow of ACI, Paul’s leadership and volunteer efforts with ACI amass a long list. He most recently served as Chair of the ACI Membership Committee and on the ACI Board of Direction. His previous professional service to ACI, which extends nearly 40 years, includes Chair of the International Project Awards Committee and ACI Committee 124, Concrete Aesthetics, for which he edited the “Notable Concrete” series produced for ACI conventions and excerpted in Concrete International. In addition, he served on the editorial review panel for both Sustainable Concrete Guides of the U.S. Green Concrete Council. He is a member or past member of several other ACI committees including 120, History of Concrete. A frequent speaker and author on concrete topics, Paul has contributed several articles to Concrete International on projects involving the renovation or restoration of historic concrete structures.

Paul received the 2018 ACI Strategic Advancement Award and the 2023 ACI Foundation Building the Future Award.

In addition to his ACI activities, Paul is an active member of ASTM International, serving on Committee E06, Performance of Buildings, and is a past member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), having served on the editorial panel of the Journal of Leadership and Management in Engineering. Paul is a member of the Historic Preservation Commission of the Town of Oro Valley, AZ and is acting state disaster coordinator for the Arizona Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Paul’s contribution to the industry is also evidenced by 20 years of undergraduate teaching. Paul was Course Coordinator for the Senior Design capstone course in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE. The course received the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) Engineering Award Grand Prize in 2010.

Before joining Larsen & Landis, Inc., Paul held engineering positions for Built Form LLC, Duffield Associates, Thornton Tomasetti, Guardian Companies, Gredell & Paul, among others.

He has received numerous honors and awards from professional, technical, and community organizations including the 2018 ACI Strategic Advancement Award and 2008 Engineer of the Year from the ASCE Delaware Section.

Paul received his MSCE and MArch from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and his BA from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. He is a licensed professional engineer, a licensed architect (AIA), is LEED-AP accredited, and has earned four ACI University Certificate Program badges.

Registration: 11:15-11:45

Lunch and presentation:  11:45 - 1:00