Cementitious Materials International Congress Americas (Hilton Anatole Hotel, Dallas/Texas, March 11-12) welcomes Rich Szecsy, CEO Big Town Concrete as a speaker presenting:
A Practitioner’s Perspective: Challenges and Obstacles to Implementing Sustainable and Reduced Carbon Concrete
The implementation of sustainable and reduced concrete is more than following a code, standard, or specification. There are many obstacles and obstructions that can limit, prohibit, or contradict the actual goals. This presentation will highlight those impediments and various strategies for solving them from the ground level perspective with multiple real life and field based examples.
Richard S. Szecsy, PhD., PE, FACI has worked internationally as a technical expert and business development director for a $4B ready mix and aggregate company, a Department Head at a university, a Vice-President and Board member for one of the largest privately held ready-mix concrete and aggregate companies in the US, President & CEO of the largest state aggregate and concrete trade association in the US, COO of one of the largest privately held ready-mix companies in North Texas, Executive Vice-President of Alamo Concrete Products, and is the current CEO for Big Town Concrete in the largest ready-mix market in the US.
He has an enormous depth and breadth of experience on operational issues such as mergers & acquisitions, corporate integrations, cost controls, safety, environmental, quality control, engineering, plant design and layout, pricing strategies, marketing strategies, financial assessment and analysis. He frequently gives testimony to various city and county governments and serves as a consistent resource to the State of Texas legislature on a variety of ready-mix issues from tax policy, permitting, and batch plant, quarry, and cement plant production.
He served on several state and national committees for ACI, ASCE, and the NRMCA, as well as Boards of Direction for ASTM and TACA. He is currently serving on the ASTM International Board of Directors (2025 to 2028) and sitting Chair of ASTM C9 Concrete and Aggregates (2022 to 2028) and is the current Chair of the Texas Aggregates and Concrete Association (June 2025 to June 2026).
By registering this leading event you will get to meet, talk and learn from the following leaders of the industry:
- David Perkins, Senior Vice President, Sustainability & Public Affairs, North America, HeidelbergMaterials
- Dr. Luis Baquerizo Ibarra, Director, Central Research Laboratory, CalPortland
- Dr. Bruno Bertolotti, R&D Manager, Cemento Yura
- Tien Peng, Co-founder, GreenPlum Street LLC
- Corey J. Zollinger, Director – Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions, CEMEX
- Grant Quasha, Chairman & CEO, EcoMaterial Technologies, a CRH Company
- Dr. Maria Juenger, Professor, The University of Texas at Austin & President, American Concrete Institute
- Dr. Nancy Beltran, Director of Concrete Pavements, Cement Council of Texas (CCT)
- Dr. Anol Mukhopadhyay, Director, Concrete Innovation Lab, CIR Materials and Rigid Pavement, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)
- Dr. Hongyan Ma, Professor & Director, Laboratory of Future Cements and Carbon-Negative Initiatives (FUCCI), Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Dean A. Frank, Principal / Consultant, Dean Frank Associates, LLC
- Tiffany Reed-Villarreal, Director, Sustainability Codes and Standards, National Ready-mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA).
Companies already registered include AggrePlex, Alithic, Amrize, AshGrove, Astec Industries, Cemengal, Coperion, Cemento Yura, FCT Combustion, Firefly, Itochu International, Loesche America, NAK Kiln Services.
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