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Bill Palmer is Editorial Director for Hanley Wood’s Commercial Construction Group, which includes the magazines, websites, e-newsletters, and webcast initiatives for Concrete Construction, Concrete Surfaces, The Concrete Producer, Public Works, and Concrete Construction Products. Palmer is a professional engineer, writer, editor, and program developer with more than 25 years of experience in the construction industry, specializing in concrete, masonry, building design, and public works. He has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Colorado (1980) and a master’s from the University of Iowa (1982). He is a licensed professional engineer in Michigan and Colorado.

Palmer worked for the American Concrete Institute for 10 years as engineering editor on Concrete International and as director of ACI’s educational programs. While at ACI, he was also executive vice president of the American Society of Concrete Contractors for two years. Following that, he spent four years as executive director of The Masonry Society—a technical organization that develops educational programs and resources for masonry designers and contractors.

Palmer is an active member and Fellow of the American Concrete Institute, where he is a member of the Educational Activities Committee and Certification Programs Committee. He lives in Lyons, Colo.

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Joe Nasvik has been senior editor for Concrete Construction (CC) magazine since March 2000, where he writes articles about all segments of the concrete industry and specializes in decorative concrete construction. Nasvik is a member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the American Society of Concrete Contractors, on the board of the Decorative Concrete Council, and represents CC in the Concrete Foundation Association. On the ACI national level, Nasvik is a member of the Construction Liaison Committee, the Aesthetics Committee 124, Decorative Concrete 310, and Decorative Concrete Finisher C601-D. He attends meetings of the 302 Floor Construction committee, 343 Bridge Design committee, 130 Sustainability committee, 117 Tolerances committee, and 363 High-Strength concrete committee.

Considered a leading authority on concrete, Nasvik was a professor in the Applied Behavioral Science Department at a small college until 1974 when he started Chicagoland Concrete Specialists (CCS)—a concrete construction company in the Chicago area. As a Bomanite contractor, his company installed all forms of special pavement. As one of the early stamped concrete contractors, he worked out mix designs for freeze/thaw climate use and performed durability tests in lab testing facilities. CCS also constructed high-strength warehouse floors, installed other general concrete flatwork, and specialized in the installation and waterproofing of landscape features and waterfalls using rock textured panels made with glass fiber reinforced concrete and masonry unit formlined concrete wall construction. Nasvik holds a master's degree in Group Dynamics and a master's degree in Social Work.

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Matt Offenberg, Southeast U.S. Technical Services Manager for Grace Construction Products, is an internationally recognized expert on pervious concrete. He is an active member or officer of the three major pervious concrete committees: chair of ACI Committee 522, secretary of ASTM Committee C09.49 (the group that developed the test methods for pervious), and founding chair of NRMCA’s Pervious Concrete Contractor Certification Committee. Offenberg is the leader of the Pervious Live demonstration at the World of Concrete.

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