ACAA 2024 Winter Membership Meeting

  • Tue, February 06, 2024
  • 9:00 AM
  • Wed, February 07, 2024
  • 5:00 PM
  • Hilton Palacio del Rio, San Antonio, Texas

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:
  • Employees of ACAA Member Companies
  • Employees of companies that are not currently members of ACAA. Attendance is limited for non-members, to attend more meetings, please consider applying for ACAA membership.

Join us at the Hilton Palacio del Rio in San Antonio, Texas for the Winter 2024 ACAA Membership Meeting!  

To reserve a room at the host hotel you can call reservations at 1-800-774-1500 and reference the American Coal Ash Association (ACAA)

Pre-registration for attendance will not be available after 12:00 pm EST on Monday, January 29th, this is also the last day to request a refund.  After this time, on-site registration at the hotel will still be available.

Monday, February 5:

1:30 - 5 pm - Board of Director's Executive Session (Closed Meeting)
Tuesday, February 6:

9 - 10 am - Communication & Membership Committee Meeting, Peg Rennick, Chair

10 -10:30 am - Technical Committee Meeting Pt.1, Sai Vaidya, Chair

10:30 -11 am - Coffee Break

11 - 11:45 am - Technical Committee Meeting Pt. 2, Sai Vaidya, Chair

Women's Leadership Forum Luncheon, 11:45 AM to 1:15 PM; or lunch on your own

1:15 - 2 pm – Special Presentation: World of Coal Ash Tutorial, David Melanson, Assistant Director for External Affairs and Development University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research

2 - 3:30 pm - ACAA Board of Directors, John Halm, Chair

3:30 - 4 pm - ACAA Educational Foundation Board of Directors, John Halm, Chair

Welcome Reception, 5:30 to 6:30 PM

Wednesday, February 7:

7:15 - 8:15 am - Continental Breakfast

8:15 - 8:30 am - Opening Remarks, Tom Adams, ACAA Executive Director

8:30 - 9:15 am - Coal Ash Market Business Intelligence - Bottom-Up Analysis and Direction, David Cox, Founder, FirmoGraphs

9:15 - 10 am - EPD Technical Assistance for the Cementitious Materials Industry, Dr. Eric Giannini, Director of Product Standards and Technology, Portland Cement Association

10 - 10:20 am - Coffee Break

10:20 - 11:05 am - Reactivity Tests for Supplementary Cementitious Materials, Dr. Maria Juenger, L.B. (Preach) Meaders Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin

11:05 - 11:45 am - Carbonization of SCMs, Dr. Rafic Minkara, President, NXTInnovations

Group Lunch 11:45 am - 1:15 pm - Group Lunch

1:15 - 2 pm - ERCOT and the Texas Grid, Michael J. Nasi, Partner, Jackson Walker

2 - 3 pm - Government Relations Committee Meeting, John Ward, Chair

3 - 3:45 pm - Eco Material at Rainbow Energy Center, TBD

3:45 - 4 pm - Closing Remarks, Tom Adams, ACAA Executive Director


If you are interested in becoming a sponsor or having an exhibit table, please feel free to fill out this sponsor form and return it to Brooke Pirmann at brooke.pirmann.acaa@gmail.com.  

Thank you to our Sponsors: Eco Material Technologies, The SEFA Group, Waste ManagementGeocycle, Haley & Aldrich, RB Jergens, AshcorCTL Group, Hanson, LB Industrial Systems

Thank you to our Exhibitors: Agru America, CQA Solutions, Eco Material TechnologiesEllingson DTD, LB Industrial Systems, The Mouat Company, Xylem