<p>The American Concrete Institute (ACI) will hold its international
convention in St. Louis from Nov. 2-8. In preparation the local ACI
Committee 124 is preparing a compendium of notable concrete in the
Metropolitan St. Louis area for distribution at the convention.</p>
<p>The committee is soliticiting thumbnail images and brief
descriptions of notable concrete (cast-in-place, precast,
post-tensioned, FRP, masonry, tilt-up, etc.) in all types of uses:
buildings, monuments, pavement, silos, bridges, crypts, furniture,
retaining walls, utility poles, tanks, sculpture, culverts, plazas, and
any other interesting use.</p>
<p>Significance may be historical, aesthetic, functional, structural,
construction-related, unusual use or application, or simply personal
affection.</p>
<p>Requirements for submission:</p>
<ul>
<li>name and location of submission (Location information should be sufficient to enable discovery by reader.);</li>
<li>thumbnail image [photograph, drawing, or sketch] that is not copyrighted;</li>
<li>one or two sentence description that establishes significance;</li>
<li>submitter's name, title, organization, city and state, telephone, and e-mail.</li>
</ul>
<p>Submit all information in electronic format (postcard-size image as JPEG or TIFF file, text in email or as MSWord document).</p>
<p>Deadline: Submissions by May 1, 2008.</p>
<p>Send to: Michael J. Paul, Duffield Associates, 211 North 13th Street, Suite 704, Philadelphia, PA, 19107; tel. 215.545.7295.</p>