ISCS kicked off its first Canadian event this July in the city of Edmonton with a 2-day event at the University of Alberta’s Donadeo Innovation Centre (DICE) for Engineering and the I.F. Morrison Structures Laboratory. The event, Concrete North Symposium, was co-sponsored by Construction Specifications Canada (CSC) Edmonton, and the Edmonton Construction Association (ECA).

Guests were treated to new concrete technologies in curing and finishing. Additional demonstrations on architectural exposed finishes and floor protection were held on day two and allowed University of Alberta engineering and masonry graduate students the opportunity to test out advanced remote control construction technologies.

Simultaneous lectures were presented in the DICE building including the University of Alberta’s own Carlos Cruz-Noguez, PhD, PEng who took the audience back in time to discover the secrets of Roman Concrete, Rae Taylor, PhD’s concrete overview as well as courses on architectural exposed structural concrete (AESC). The end of the symposium was capped off by an all-star panel discussion including Keith Robinson, FCSC, FCSI, RSW, LEED AP of Dialog architectural firm, Stan Sagert of PCL Construction Management Inc., Carlos Cruz, Chris Bennett, CSI, and Rae Taylor on Changing the Language of Concrete.