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Bill Palmer

Bill Palmer
Bill Palmer has been active in the concrete and masonry industry for 25 years and knows everybody who’s anybody in the industry. For the past couple of years he has been independently developing articles and educational resources for various magazines, web sites, and industry associations.
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John Harrison

B.Sc. B.Ec. FCPA, Australia
John Harrison has degrees in science and economics and is a member of many organisations. Apart from running a large accountancy/consulting practice (John Harrison Accountants) he has had experience as a geochemist (exploration and minerals separation) and in engineering and has been responsible for a number of innovations including the tech tendon method of pre stressing. John is managing director and chairman of TecEco Pty. Ltd. and best known for the invention of TecEco cements including Eco-Cement which because it sets by absorbing CO2 has attracted significant global interest.
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Mark S. Kuhar

Mark S. Kuhar is the former editor-in-chief of, and is a current contributor to Pit & Quarry magazine, the leading aggregates publication in the United States. He has covered the aggregates industry for almost 20 years. A former winner of the Construction Writers Association Robert F. Boger Award for Editorials, he has also worked on Concrete and Portable Plants & Equipment magazines.
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Ken Day

Ken describes himself as "an evangelistic concrete technologist" and says this means that concrete technology is his religion and he wanders around the world preaching it to anyone who will listen. Actually Ken is more specialised than that. His expertise is mainly in mix design, quality control and specification - although he has been a consulting structural engineer, a university lecturer, a precast and prestressed concrete producer, and a general investigator and legal expert witness of defective concrete.
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