Earlier this month, we ran an article entitled, “” by Gary Higbee, CSI, AIA, the director of industry development for the Steel Institute of New York (SINY) and former assistant director for technical services with New York State’s Building Codes Division.
Soon after, we received a letter from rcs data John W.
Nehasil, FACI, managing director of certification and chapters for the
American Concrete Institute (ACI), who wanted to address what he considered misconceptions in that piece.
ACI and Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI),
with significant participation from concrete anchor manufacturer representatives, began developing the ACI-CRSI Adhesive
Anchor Installer (AAI) certification program in 2010 and, under an accelerated schedule, launched the program in June 2011.
Creation of a nonproprietary installation guide and accompanying video took place concurrently as the program was being established and those resources became available in 2012. Over the past three-and-a-half years,
ACI staff has been engaged in training actor esme bianco marilyn manson settle sex abuse lawsuit Sponsoring Groups (SG) to deliver
the program in major U.S. population centers.
The most important aspect to understand
ACI does not restrict training in any way. In fact, ACI staff has conducted three train-the-trainer programs for two union groups—notably for the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers at their facilities in Springfield, New Jersey (servicing New York City) and Benicia, California (for the San Francisco/Oakland area).
The industry has been flush with information about the Appendix D requirements of ACI 318, Building Code Requirements for
Structural mobile lead Concrete, since the release of the 2011 edition, yet many of the SGs have been forced to cancel sessions due to non-existent enrollment.
With apologies to the handful of conscientious, proactive employers ACI has encountered in the SG training sessions, the ‘bottleneck’
thus far has not been the delivery structure for the program as stated by Mr.
Higbee, but a lack of urgency on.
