ASTM Honors Nicholas Lang with President's Leadership Award.
Press Release Summary:
Nicholas R. Lang received 2011 President's Leadership Award, which recognizes individuals early in their ASTM career who have significantly advanced Society's mission through extraordinary accomplishments, example, and vision. ASTM International member since 2006, Lang serves as member-at-large on Committees C12 on Mortars and Grouts for Unit Masonry and C15 on Manufactured Masonry Units. He is also chairman of Subcommittee C15.03 on Concrete Masonry Units and Related Units.
Original Press Release:
Nicholas R. Lang Receives ASTM International President's Leadership Award
W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-Nicholas R. Lang, manager of the Research and Development Laboratory at the National Concrete Masonry Association in Herndon, Va., has received the 2011 President's Leadership Award from ASTM International.
Established in 2007, the President's Leadership Award recognizes individuals early in their ASTM career who have significantly advanced the Society's mission through extraordinary accomplishment, example and vision. T. Russell Gentry, Ph.D., an associate professor in the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Ga., was also honored this year.
Lang has been a member of ASTM International since 2006. He serves as a member at large on Committees C12 on Mortars and Grouts for Unit Masonry and C15 on Manufactured Masonry Units, and is chairman of Subcommittee C15.03 on Concrete Masonry Units and Related Units. He has chaired several C12 and C15 task groups, and is also a member of Committees C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates and E06 on Performance of Buildings.
After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in materials science and engineering, Lang accepted the position of laboratory inspector at the ASTM International Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory (CCRL) in Gaithersburg, Md. In 2006, he joined the National Concrete Masonry Association as a research engineer, and he assumed his current role in 2008. As manager of the Research and Development Laboratory, he oversees a staff of technicians and masons in evaluating the performance of concrete masonry products and wall systems in both a contract capacity and on behalf of the concrete masonry industry.
Lang is also a member of the American Concrete Institute.
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