Zdeněk Bažant Honored with Arthur J. Boase Award from ACI

Zdeněk Bažant has received the 2024 Arthur J. Boase Award from the American Concrete Institute (ACI). This foundational award is given for research in materials and structures. 

The Arthur J. Boase Award of the Concrete Research Council, established in 1971, is given in recognition of a person, persons, or an organization for outstanding research in the structural concrete field, or for outstanding contributions to the advancement of concrete technology through application of the results of structural concrete research. It is given in memory of a former chairman of the ACI Building Code Committee and ASCE Committee on Masonry and Reinforced Concrete, who was the driving force behind the creation of the Reinforced Concrete Research Council in 1948, now the Concrete Research Council. The award is a plaque suitably inscribed with the name of the recipient and the citation.