Farmington Hills, Michigan (April 2, 2019)—Randall W. Poston has been elected to serve as president of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) for 2019-2020. 

Poston, FACI, is senior principal with Pivot Engineers, Austin, Texas, and Neil Armstrong Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the college of engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. For the past 33 years, he has been engaged in the evaluation, repair and strengthening of hundreds of structures. His expertise includes investigation of structural failures, evaluation the corrosion of steel in concrete, structural concrete repair and design, and nondestructive testing.

Poston is an active member of numerous technical committees, particularly ACI Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code, of which he was chair during the 2014 code cycle. He is also a trustee of the ACI Foundation and a voting member of Advancing Organizational Excellence. 

Poston received the 2015 ACI Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award for his outstanding leadership of Committee 318. He has garnered numerous awards for technical papers and personal awards for service to the profession. Poston is the author of more than 100 nationally and internationally recognized publications. 

Poston was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2017 “for development of diagnostic and repair technologies for concrete structures and leadership in concrete building code development.” He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI), Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI), International Federation of Structural Concrete (fib), and Structural Engineers Association of Texas (SEAoT).

Poston received his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and Ph.D. in civil engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He was named a Distinguished Engineering Graduate of The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering in 2014 and elected to the Academy of Distinguished Graduates of the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering in 2008. He is a licensed professional engineer or structural engineer in numerous states.

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