ICRI PITTSBURGH FREEZE-THAW BALL

Thursday, January 30, 2025

5:45pm – Registration & Networking

6:00pm – 8:00pm Axe Throwing

What’s Included:

• Fun and networking with other concrete repair professionals.

• Two hours of axe throwing – round robin and tournament.

• Food and two drink tickets.

• Door prizes.

Other Info:

• No experience needed.

• Open to all members and guests connected to the concrete repair industry.

• Sponsorships available.

• Door prize donations are welcome.

Location:

Playground Dropout (Formerly Lumberjaxes)

2 Sedgwick St, Pittsburgh, PA 15209 (Millvale)

Parking is available on the street and in the rear lot off Farragut Street.

Cost:

$50.00 Event Ticket

$150.00 Event Sponsorship (Food, Drinks, Prizes)

RSVP:

Email Keith Campbell (kcampbell@pullman-services.com) with names of attendees and sponsors.

RSVP's must be received by Thursday, January 23, 2025.

ICRI PITTSBURGH 25th ANNUAL GOLF OUTING

See below and attached for info on this year's golf outing.  It's our 25th year, so we're looking for a large group. There are also additional sponsorships available to make this our best year yet. We hope to see you there! 

Date & Time:

Friday, June 21, 2024

9:00am Registration & Networking

10:00am Shotgun Start

Format:

Four-person best ball scramble.

Prizes:

Skill prizes on the course.

Team prizes for top finishers.

Raffle prizes after the round.

Food:

Drinks available on the course.

Snacks available at the turn.

Full meal after the round.

Cost:

$125.00 per golfer. Singles and foursomes welcome.

Available Sponsorships:

Golf Balls: $750 (taken);

Food: $500 (3 available);

Drink: $500 (3 available);

Prizes: $500 (3 available);

Tees: $150 (18 available)

RSVP:

Email Patrick Allen (p.allen@aespj.com) with names of attendees and tee sponsorships or Purchase Tickets / Sponsorships Here!

RSVP's must be received by Friday, June 14, 2024.

Come join ICRI Pittsburgh in our first roundtable presentation series of 2024 focused on special inspections. A panel of industry leaders including Micah Sayles (CEC Inc), Michael Moore (Rycon) and Evan Rowles (AES) will discuss the important and sometimes challenging subject with Mike Payne (BECS, moderator) as they take questions from the audience to create an interactive experience for all members.

When: March 12, 2024, 11:30- 1pm

Where: 11 Stanwix Street, Pittsburgh PA - Conference Center - lower level; street and garage parking available

Cost: $25.00 Chapter Members, $30.00 Non-Members.

Lunch will be provided!

RSVP: CLICK HERE!

Join the ICRI Pittsburgh as we kick off the construction season with our annual networking event deemed ”The Freeze-Thaw Ball”.  The Freeze-Thaw Ball is a great place to meet and socialize with other professionals in the concrete repair business.  We’ll be blowing off some of the residual stress by chucking axes at the Lumberjaxes location in Mt. Lebanon. 

For the price of one ticket, you’ll get two-hours of ax-throwing, two drink tickets, great food and a chance to win some cool door prizes!

WHEN: Thursday February 16th @ 7 PM

WHERE: Lumberjaxes @ Mt. Lebonon

COST: $50.00 per person ……..$150.00 Sponsorship (includes 1 ticket)

*Cost of ticket includes food, two drink tickets and ax-throwing

Join the ICRI Pittsburgh on Monday December 5th as Phil Elgin from Wiss, Janney, Elstner provides a detailed review of a parking garage failure.  Mr. Elgin will present a case study of a collapsed precast double tee flange in a parking garage. Flanges were reinforced with carbon-fiber and connected with slip connectors. The presentation information includes original design and construction details, review of material studies, evaluation of the failure, and repair installation details.

When: Monday, December 5th @ 11:30 AM

Where: 11 Stanwix Street 

Cost: $20 for member / $30 for non-members (lunch included)

RSVP: Email Patrick Allen with names of attendees and Boxed Lunch selection (attached); RSVP's must be received by Wednesday 11/30.

When: Friday 6.17 @ 10 AM

Where: Birdsfoot Golf Club 225 Furnace Run Rd, Freeport, PA 16229

 Cost: $120.00 per golfer (dinner and drink tickets included)

Hole Sponsorship: $150.00 (Due by June 1st)

Shine up your 9 iron, 'cause we’re going golfing! The event will be held at Bird’s Foot in Freeport, PA.  Shotgun start and a scramble format. Food and drinks afterwards and all the talk about surface prep you can handle!

We’re going to have prizes and good food afterwards too!

Purchasing: Please purchase tickets by clicking the appropriate link below.  Tickets must be purchased by June 10th.

$480.00 - Foursome

$120.00 - Single Ticket 

$150.00 - Hole Sponsorship - (Due by June 1st)

Contact Pat Allen with any questions.

When: 3/22 @ 11:00 AM

Where: Mullaney's Harp and Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 

Member Cost: $0.00 - Lunch will be paid for by the ICRI! 

Non- Member Cost: $10.00 

Topic: After a long time in between in-person meetings, between in-person meetings, the ICRI Pittsburgh chapter would like to officially welcome everyone back as we all gear up for a bright 2022! To kick things off, we would like to formally invite you to attend a lunch meeting at Mulaney's Harp and Fiddle for a post St. Patrick's Day discussion on an array of topics facing the concrete restoration community including inflation, labor shortages, material availability, anticipated activity for 2022, etc.   

The chapter would also like to hear from you as we discuss what information and events our member base would like to see throughout the rest of the year as we plan both technical and more lighthearted events to bring us back together. 

As an added bonus, we have some gift cards and a golf package to Birdsfoot to give away! 

We look forward to seeing everyone again! 

RSVP Here!

ICRI Board of Directors

The local Construction Specification Institute has invited the ICRI to participate in their online webinar on Concrete Repair Basics. Do you have a New Year’s resolution to repair an old relationship with your concrete structure? If so, you won’t want to miss this CSI Pittsburgh webinar from expert Bill Lyons of The Euclid Chemical Co. This program provides an overview of the information gathering phases of the concrete restoration process, including on-site analysis, and determining the causes of concrete failure.

Date: January 11, 2022

Time: 5 pm to 6 pm (virtual)

Registration: https://imiweb-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrc-quqT0qHNymQxPlL2edV0iKhTED62WN
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Speaker:

William (Bill) J. Lyons III FACI

National Business Development Manager – Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Regions

The Euclid Chemical Co.

Bill is a Fellow in ACI, former chair ACI 306 “Cold Weather Concreting” & ACI Convention Committee and current Hot Topic Committee Chair. Bill is the 2018 recipient of the National Chapter Activities Award for his long time dedication to the advancement of the goals to the ACI chapters.

Bill is a past President of the ACI National Capital Chapter in Washington, DC, (2016), the Concrete Industry Board, which is the NYC ACI Chapter (2007-2008), and current board member for NCCACI and CIB. Bill is currently on four ACI committees and three PCI Committees.

 Bill has 36+ year’s experience in the concrete construction industry which includes being an engineering representative for another large admixture company, technical representative for a fly ash company, engineering representative for a national ready mix company and the executive director for a concrete association.

Please register by noon on Jan. 11. For more information or questions, contact Brian Trimble, btrimble@imiweb.org.

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Shine up your 9 iron, cause we’re getting back to golfing! The event will be held at Bird’s Foot in Freeport, PA. Shotgun start and a scramble format. Food and drinks afterwards and all the talk about surface prep you can handle!

We’re going to have prizes and good food afterwards too!

Where: Birdsfoot Golf Club 225 Furnace Run Rd, Freeport, PA 16229

Start Time: Shotgun Start at 11:00 AM

Cost: $120.00 per golfer (dinner and drink tickets included)

Hole Sponsorship: $150.00 (Due by June 25th)

Registration Link: Click Here to Register (Registration Must Be Completed By July 9th)

So you want to hang a 10,000 lb pre-cast element overhead using some epoxy, huh? If so, you probably want to make sure that sucker is installed the right way.

Michael Morrison (Manager of The American Concrete Institute’s Certification Programs) will cover the requirements for Adhesive Anchor Installer certification, and ACI’s newer Post Installed Concrete Anchor Installation Inspector certification programs, as well as both programs connection to ACI 318, Building Code for Structural Concrete. 40+ ACI Chapters and Sponsoring Groups in the United States have added the ACI Adhesive Anchor Installer (AAI) and Post Installed Concrete Anchor Installation Inspector (PICAII) certification programs to their repertoire of ACI certification offerings. The AAI program has been available throughout the US the last 10 years and the Inspector program rolled out late in late 2016 and was then modified and updated in late 2018. This presentation will be of interest to contractors who use these products, engineering firms and agencies that offer inspection services, as well as engineering firms that write repair specifications.

Topics covered in this presentation include:

• Need for the Adhesive Anchor Installer certification program

• How both programs were built and who built them

• Understand the requirements to obtain these certifications

• Understand the process and availability of these programs in your area

• Understand criteria associated with the Post Installed Concrete Anchor Installation Inspector program

Register Here!

Join the ICRI Pittsburgh for an exciting webinar on a rapidly emerging technology. Drones offer exciting new possibilities in the construction industry. They can be used for inspections, site surveys, even thermographic imaging. Join Seth Zora, President of Aerdia, for a discussion on what drones can do for the AEC community.

Aerdia’s AEC division supplies aerial data for Architectural, Engineering, Construction, and Inspection projects via 3D-Modeling, Point Clouds, Aerial LiDAR, CAD Overlays, Thermal Data Collection, Photography Inspection Data, Videography, and more.

This will be a proprietary presentation with tons of great information, however it will not count toward AIA Continuing Education.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83499847204

Passcode: 834 9984 7204

This panel of industry experts will discuss and examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the concrete repair industry throughout the United States and how our industry is adapting to this changing landscape.

Learning Objectives

• Hear from industry leaders from different sectors of the concrete repair industry about the impacts on the industry and forecast for the future due to COVID-19

• Gain industry insights from different parts of the U.S.

• Learn about different business strategies to adapt to COVID-19 and approaches to employee safety

Cost: Complimentary

Register Today!

Please join us for an informative roundtable to discuss the current state of the City of Cleveland's facade ordinance as well as what it means for the future of building restoration.  The discussion will be held in a roundtable format via GoTo Meeting.  Participating members of the discussion will be as follows:

Moderators:       Amy Pergalsky - Euclid Chemical Company
                          Matt Krauss - The Chas. E. Phipps Co.

Roundtable:       Tom Vanover - Chief Building Official City of Cleveland
                           Jim Wamelink - WR Restoration
                           Mike Mazzocco - Barber & Hoffman Consulting Engineers
                           Matt Stickler - Prosoco

MUST PREREGISTER!  Registration deadline of Friday June 5
GoTo Meeting access code to be sent via email upon registration

Register HERE!

Note from the Board: This is not an ICRI sanctioned event but it may interest our members nevertheless.

Walker Consultants will be putting on a day-long seminar where participants can learn about the design, construction and maintenance of parking structures. This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDH’s to professional engineers and 6.5 hours of AIA continuing education credits to architects.

Learn about planning for structure parking, including site selection.

Explore parking geometrics and circulation systems.

Examine life safety issues, means of egress and guards and vehicle barriers.

Review accessible parking design.

Study structural design systems, designing for durability and maintenance issues.

Register HERE

Click here to RSVP by March 5th!

Topic:

Strengthening projects may utilize traditional materials such as conventional cement-based and steel

materials as well as advanced composite materials (FRP’s) that are commonly used for aerospace

applications. The techniques used to design and install these materials for upgrade applications are

not common to the engineering and general construction industry which can also make strengthening

projects even more challenging and complex than new construction. The presentation will include

methods for evaluating and selecting the appropriate strengthening application, limitations, and

installation best practices.

Speaker:

Mr. Jerrub Hammrich is a Senior Business Development manager for STRUCTURAL Group – the largest

US specialty design/build repair contractor. He has over 15 years of experience in the construction

industry and has spent the last 10 years specializing in the repair and strengthening of concrete

structures. Jerrub brings his industry experience to life with physical case studies in the presentation

on ways to strengthen and repair existing concrete structures.

Cost:

$25.00 Chapter Members,

$30.00 Non-Members (Cash or Check)

Click here to RSVP by March 5th!

Join us at TopGolf on Thursday, January 17th to network with other concrete and construction professionals as we celebrate the turning of the season. We will have great food, drinks prizes, and most importantly, you get to show every one of your peers just how terrible of a golfer you actually are!

We always have a lot of fun! Hope to see you there!

Tickets: $50.00 (price includes dinner, two drink tickets, and three hours of game play). You can pay at the event with check, card or cash. Alternatively, you can be invoiced at a later date.

RSVP: You must RSVP in order to attend the event. Click HERE!

Join us for Lunch on October 9th as Erik Harless from the Department of Permits, Licenses, and Inspections reviews some challenges facing Pittsburgh as we continue to grow as a region.

Where: Buford’s Kitchen (Across from PPG Paints Arena)

When: October 9th @ 11:30 AM

Cost: $20 (Lunch Included)

RSVP: Click Here

What do we suspect when there is a spall?  What can we detect when there is a delamination?  What clues can we look for when there is a crack?

Jeff Varga is a Concrete Detective (Petrographer) with The Euclid Chemical Company.  In his role, Jeff is tasked with analyzing concrete at a microscopic level to determine why concrete failed.  Concrete Petrography is mainly utilized as a troubleshooting tool “post-mortem” and Jeff has seen his share of concrete crimes.  He has spent 25 years sleuthing stones ever since receiving his BS in Geology from the University of Akron.

He’ll share how he looks for clues and tell us all the best ways to how to avoid a life of being a cast-in-place criminal!

Date: Tuesday, Sept. 11th

Time: Networking: 11:30 AM; Presentation Time: 12:00 PM

Location: Buford's Grill Downtown (Near PPG Paints Arena)

Cost: $25.00 (includes lunch).  Payment can be made with cash, credit card, check or emailed invoice.  

RSVP: Let us know you are coming by clicking here.