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ASTM International appoints Ronald J Ebelhar as chairman

13 Jan '15

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ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials, a globally recognised leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards, has appointed Ronald J. Ebelhar as the chairman of the 2015 ASTM International board of directors.

Ronald J. Ebelhar, P.E., D.GE, senior principal with Terracon in Cincinnati, Ohio has earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

As a project manager for geotechnical and environmental engineering projects worldwide, Ebelhar has provided design, consulting and forensic engineering services for commercial, industrial, transportation, waste disposal and public utility projects; geotechnical engineering design and construction, including site soil response under seismic, cyclic and dynamic loading; and marine geosciences and engineering field explorations. He is a registered professional engineer in eight states.

Ebelhar, who joined ASTM in 1980, is a past chairman of ASTM committee D18 on Soil and Rock and several D18 subcommittees. An ASTM fellow and 2003 Award of Merit recipient, Ebelhar has received several awards from D18, including the R.S. Ladd Standards Development Award; the Woodland G. Shockley Award; the A. Ivan Johnson Outstanding Achievement Award; two Special Service Awards; and the Committee D18 Technical Editor’s Award for STP 1213, Dynamic Geotechnical Testing II. He also received a Service Award from the ASTM Committee on Technical Committee Operations, on which he served a two-year term. Ebelhar has served on the ASTM board of directors since 2010.

In addition to his ASTM work, Ebelhar is a fellow and member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a diplomate, Geotechnical Engineering, in the Academy of Geo-Professionals.

Ebelhar said, “While I’ve had some opportunities to work alongside other ASTM groups, on the board and through some cross-committee projects like the Built Environment Advisory Committee, I’m looking forward to meeting contributors from many other committees.”

“I’m also looking forward to gaining insight from the international members who are now sitting on the board. It will be enlightening to learn from those people how ASTM is perceived globally and how to provide more global focus to our ASTM activities. This should be an exciting year,” he added. (GK)

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