INDUSTRY WIRE: Gypsum Association Officially Recognized for ASTM achievement
Robert Wessel, Ph.D., the assistant executive director and director of technical services for the Gypsum Association, is featured in a column in the August 2007 edition of ASTM International’s Standardization News. The article details how Wessel, serving as the secretary for ASTM’s committee C-11 on Gypsum and Related Building Materials and Systems, coordinated the combining of nine separate gypsum-related material standards into a single umbrella standard, ASTM C 1396/C 1396M, Specification for Gypsum Board.
Under Wessel’s supervision, the new standard was introduced while the original nine standards were phased out over a three-year period and eventually withdrawn. To facilitate the phase-out of the nine standards, ASTM and the Gypsum Association launched separate public awareness campaigns to alert the specifier and building official communities to the changes.
Under Wessel’s supervision, the new standard was introduced while the original nine standards were phased out over a three-year period and eventually withdrawn. To facilitate the phase-out of the nine standards, ASTM and the Gypsum Association launched separate public awareness campaigns to alert the specifier and building official communities to the changes.
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