Registration is now open for the Composite Lumber Manufacturers Association (CLMA) 2017 Annual Meeting, which will take place Wednesday, October 25, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. Open to both CLMA members and non-members, the annual event provides educational programming and networking opportunities for manufacturers and suppliers in the composite lumber industry. Meeting topics will include updates on building codes and standards, regulatory developments, emerging research, and other industry technical information.
Speakers at this year’s meeting will include Robert Tichy, Researcher Engineer, Composite Materials and Engineering Center at Washington State University; Steve Quarles, Chief Scientist for Wildfire and Durability, Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS); Ping Cheng, Senior Staff Engineer and Bill Gould, Vice President of External Relations and Client Services, International Code Council (ICC) – Evaluation Services (ES).
The CLMA 2017 Annual Meeting will also include a tour of Vanderbilt University’s Laboratory for Systems Integrity & Reliability (LASIR). The 20,000-square-foot facility, launched in 2014, hosts a variety of interdisciplinary engineering research programs supported by the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, as well as contractors and equipment manufacturers. Meeting attendees will have the opportunity to meet with university researchers and view their experimental work in the field of composites.
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