ACI Custom Seminars
ACI's Educational Activities
ACI has a long history of delivering quality educational programs in the concrete field...and has been educating the industry through its public seminar programs since 1969. To date, over 50,000 concrete professionals have attended public seminars conducted by ACI.
Now you can bring this training and education expertise right to your doorstep by scheduling a custom seminar for your employees, customers, or members. Choose from a variety of topics such as: structural design, repair, troubleshooting, slabs-on-ground, and many more. Instructors are selected from a large pool of ACI committee members with experience as educators, engineers, contractors, consultants, material suppliers, and in other fields. These experts possess specific knowledge about the topics being presented.
The technical material covered in each seminar is based upon the most recent technical information developed through ACI's extensive technical committee structure, and represents the latest thinking of the industry's leading experts.
Custom Seminar Details 
What Is Included?
Your investment for a custom seminar covers all development and speaker expenses for a one-day (7.5 hours) or two-day (15 hours) seminar. All seminars can be customized for the expected audience that may include engineers, architects, constructors, specifiers, material suppliers, and others who are part of the concrete design and construction community.
What Do You Need to Provide?
To assure a successful seminar experience, you should provide: a suitable meeting space, audio-visual equipment (slide, LCD, overhead projector), projection screen, microphone, and laser pointer; refreshments for lunch and scheduled breaks; and any reference materials you wish to provide the attendees.
Videotaping Seminar
ACI and the Instructors have invested a great deal of time and money into producing the intellectual property. This includes developing the seminar content, lectures, PowerPoint slide presentation, and Attendee Lecture Notes.
ACI will not allow the seminar to be video taped. Nor will ACI allow the seminar handouts to be used as part of, or in conjunction with, any other continuing education program. The seminars offered by ACI and the seminar handouts will remain the intellectual property of ACI.
Seminar Instructors
Usually, two instructors will be assigned to teach your custom seminar. All ACI instructors are recognized experts in their fields and are intimately familiar with the basis for the technologies they teach.
Seminar Scheduling
Most seminars can be scheduled within 60 days of receiving your Notice to Proceed. If significant changes to the usual seminar program format or content are required, additional time may be needed to accommodate specific needs.
Professional Development Hours (PDH)
Continuing Education Units (CEU)
Custom seminars are a great way to get the training and continuing education credits your employees need, without the added expense of travel and extended time away from the office. PDHs are increasingly being required as a condition of maintaining Professional Engineer status. The CEU is an internationally recognized unit measuring accomplishment through continuing education. Attendees at ACI one-day seminars are eligible to receive 7.5 PDHs (0.75 CEUs). Two-day seminars are worth 15.0 PDHs (1.5 CEUs).
Training & Reference Materials
The cost of reference materials is in addition to the seminar fee. We require you to purchase speaker lecture notes for each attendee. There is an additional charge of $20.00 each. The speaker lecture notes serve as an excellent reference resource and give the attendee a place to take notes. Purchase of reference materials for all attendees is recommended, and a substantial discount (up to 50%) for ACI publications is available for custom seminar attendees.
Topics
Topics are readily available but can be tailored to meet your needs.
The following information is in a PDF format.
- ACI/PCA 318-08 Building Code
- Anchorage to Concrete
- Basics of Concrete Materials and Testing
- Concrete Repair Basics
- Concrete Slabs-on-Ground
- Construction of Concrete Slabs on Ground
- Design and Construction of Concrete Parking Structures an ACI/PCI Seminar
- Design of Concrete Slabs on Ground
- Environmental Engineering Concrete Structures: Design and Details
- FRP Composites for Reinforced Concrete Construction
- Physical Tester – Basics of Cement Testing
- Portland Cement Concrete Overlays: State of the Technology
- Reinforced Concrete Design
- Repair of Concrete Bridges, Parking Decks, and Other Transportation Structures
- Repair of Concrete Workshop
- Seismic and Wind Design Considerations for Concrete Buildings
- Seismic Design for Liquid-Containing Concrete Structures
- Simplified Design of Concrete Buildings of Moderate Size
and Height, and ACI/PCA Seminar - Troubleshooting Concrete Construction
- Troubleshooting Concrete Floor Problems
- Troubleshooting Concrete Forming and Shoring
Fees 
Seminar fees start at $7,600 ($8,100 for ACI/PCA 318-08 Building Code) for a one-day seminar. Fees are proportionately higher for multiple-day seminars. Additional fees may be required if significant modification to the course content is requested. Contact ACI for pricing on customized seminars. For video conferences that are transmitted to more than one site, there will be an additional $380 charge for each site. Prices, payable in U.S. dollars, are valid for all courses scheduled in the continental United States during 2010. Prices are subject to change without notice. To begin the process of scheduling a seminar, please complete the Notice to Proceed and mail or fax to ACI as directed. *Cancellation of seminar (30 days or less prior to the seminar) will result in a refund, less $500 for handling.
Client List 
Alaska
DOT Juneau, AK Atlantic SKANSKA Buford, Georgia Baltimore Gas & Electric Baltimore, MD Bechtel Corporation Frederick, Maryland Brothers Concrete Construction Vienna, Virginia CB & I Plainfield, Illinois CH2M HILL Chicago, Illinois Sacramento, California Consolidated Edison Company New York, New York Construction Technology Laboratories, Inc. Skokie, Illinois Denver Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Colorado Dept. of General Services, Division of the State Architect California Egypt Electric Authority and Bechtel Cairo, Egypt Han-Padron (HPA, Inc.) New York, New York Kinsley Construction Co. York, Pennsylvania |
Marathon Ashland Petroleum Findlay, Ohio Metro Water Reclamation of Greater Chicago Chicago, Illinois Miami Dade Community College Miami, Florida Ministry of Transportation Toronto, Ontario, Canada MJ Harris, Inc. Birmingham, AL Montgomery Watson Harza Chicago, Illinois MTA New York City Transit New York, New York New York City Dept. of Buildings New York, NY Oklahoma DOT Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Orange County Sanitation Fountain Valley, California Reiman Corporation Cheyenne, Wyoming Rocky Mountain Prestress Denver, Colorado Roebbelen Construction Co. El Dorado Hills, California Sargent and Lundy Chicago, Illinois Savin Engineers Pleasantville, New York |
Southern Company Birmingham, Alabama St. Louis Airport Authority St. Louis, Missouri Structural Engineers Association of Maine Auburn, Maine Structural Engineers Association of Utah Centerville, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Superior Foundations of New York, Inc. Lima, New York Swinerton Builders Hilo, Hawaii Tennessee Valley Authority Knoxville, Tennessee Chattanooga, Tennessee US Army Corps of Engineers Chicago, Illinois US Department Agriculture- Forest Service Ketchikan, Alaska US Department of the Interior- Bureau Indian Affairs Gallup, New Mexico Wallace Engineering Tulsa, Oklahoma Washington Group International Denver, Colorado W. Area Power Administration Phoenix, Arizona |
For more information, please contact Eva Korzeniewski, ACI's Seminar Coordinator, at (248) 848-3754, or eva.korzeniewski@concrete.org