The primary goal of the Concrete Technology Career Track is to recognize participants with a comprehensive ready mixed concrete technical education that enables them to establish productive careers in the industry. Candidates who complete the career track are deemed to have acquired knowledge of fundamental and advanced topics in ready mixed concrete technology. To this end, the program seeks to impart strong technical competence in fundamental concrete principles along with optional special topics including business principles, operations and sustainability aspects that are relevant to the ready mixed concrete industry. This career track supports the industry’s initiatives towards performance specifications (P2P initiative) by identifying knowledgeable personnel in concrete companies.

Candidates obtaining this certification will have been exposed to knowledge of fundamentals of concrete and concrete making materials, codes and specifications, proportioning concrete mixtures for conventional and special applications, batching, mixing and delivery, handling, placing, and finishing concrete, concrete in hot and cold weather, control tests, quality control, and troubleshooting.

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Concrete Technology Graduation Application

Concrete Technology

Career Track Certification Requirement (120 hours)

Prerequisites (1 of 3 below)*

• Introduction to Concrete Fundamentals: Concrete 101 (CCSP Module I) Certification (24 hours)

• Plant Manager Certification Course (24 hours)

• Affidavit of 2 years technical work experience signed by direct supervisor

Required Courses (60 hours)*

• Concrete Technology Training and Certification (Technical Short Course) earning Level 2 (32 hours)

• Concrete Durability Course (16 hours)

• Handling Concrete Specifications, Low Strength Problems and Mixture Submittals (8 Hours)

• † Online learning offerings on concrete technology from NRMCA or other organizations (4 hours)

Suggested Electives (36 hours)*

• Achieve Concrete Technologist Level 3 certification at technical short course
  (4 hours) T

• Pass exam at Durability Course (or Level 4 certification) (4 hours) T

• Pervious Concrete Contractor Certification (8 hours) T

• Approved NRMCA Plant Inspector or Assistant (8 hours) T

• NRMCA Field Testing Technician Grade II (8 hours) T

• Design of Concrete Pavements (Online) (6 hours) T

• Design of Concrete Parking Lots – ACI 330 (4 hours) T

• † International Concrete Sustainability Conference (varies) T, S

• Environmental Course and Certification (24 hours) O

• Safety Course and Certification (20 hours) O

• Concrete’s Role in Sustainable Development, earning NRMCA Certified Concrete Sustainability Specialist (10 hours) S

• Building Green with Concrete, earning NRMCA Certified Green Building Specialist (8 hours) S

• Life Cycle Assessment of Concrete Structures (6 hours) S

• Pervious Concrete—A Stormwater Solution (6 hours) S

• Understanding the Concrete Contractor's Business: Customer Knowledge (CCSP Module II) Certification (20 hours) B

• † Third-party courses – general business principles, financial, legal and ethics (varies) B

• † Educational Sessions at NRMCA ConcreteWorks (varies) T, O, B

• † Educational Sessions at NRMCA Annual Convention (varies) B