The American Concrete Institute (ACI) announced its 2026-2027 president, vice president, and four board members. As elected by the ACI membership, Scott M. Anderson will serve as ACI president in 2026-2027, and Anton K. Schindler has been elected as ACI vice president for a two-year term. Additionally, four members have been elected to serve on the ACI Board of Direction, each for a three-year term: Matthew P. Adams, Tara Cavalline, John J. Myers, and Fouad H. Yazbeck.

President Scott M. Anderson

Scott M. Anderson, FACI, is Vice President and General Manager of Keystone Structural Concrete (Keystone), a concrete contractor based in Houston, TX. Keystone is part of the Stewart Holdings Group, a family of companies providing a full range of concrete construction services throughout the Houston, Austin, and San Antonio markets. Anderson has overseen Keystone’s elevated formed concrete construction operations since 1999.

Anderson was Chair of the ACI Financial Advisory Committee and is a member of ACI Committees E703, Concrete Construction Practices; 134, Concrete Constructability; and Joint ACI–ASCC Committee 117, Tolerances. He previously served on the ACI Construction Liaison Committee. During his term as ACI Vice President, he chaired the task group responsible for updating ACI’s Strategic Plan, which guides the Institute today.

Vice President Anton K. Schindler

Anton K. Schindler, FACI, is Mountain Spirit Professor and Director of the Highway Research Center at Auburn University (AU) in Auburn, AL, where he teaches courses in reinforced concrete design, structural repair, and concrete materials in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has served on the AU faculty for more than 23 years. He helped establish the ACI AU Student Chapter and has served as its faculty advisor since 2014.

Schindler was elected an ACI Fellow and an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Fellow in 2013 and 2019, respectively. He received the ACI Foundation Building the Future Award in 2025, the ACI Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award in 2021, the ACI Cedric Willson Lightweight Aggregate Concrete Award in 2017, and the Erskine Award from the Expanded Shale, Clay and Slate Institute (ESCSI) in 2013. He received ACI’s Wason Medal for Materials Research in 2006 and 2011. He was a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Finland in 2015 and 2016 to research the development of durable concrete infrastructure for the long-term storage of waste nuclear fuel.

Directors

Matthew P. Adams, FACI, is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Co-Director of the Materials and Structures Laboratory at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ. Adams’ research interests include the sustainability, resiliency, and long-term durability of innovative cement-based materials. He also studies how governmental policies both support and hinder the adoption of sustainable practices in construction. 

He was awarded the ACI Young Member Award for Professional Achievement in 2015 and was elected an ACI Fellow in 2019.

Tara Cavalline, FACI, is a Professor in the William States Lee College of Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) in Charlotte, NC. Her research interests include concrete and cementitious materials to support durable, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure; quality assurance in construction; the use of recycled and by-product materials; and asset management. Cavalline has been at UNC Charlotte since 2006 and currently serves as Director of the Charlotte Aviation Innovation and Research (AIR) Institute. Prior to joining UNC Charlotte, she worked as Consulting Engineer for Law Engineering and SKA Consulting Engineers.

Cavalline was awarded the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) Marlin J. Knutson Award for Technical Achievement in 2022, UNC Charlotte’s Undergraduate Award in Engineering Teaching Excellence in 2014, and William States Lee Engineering Scholar Award in 2023. She has also won two best paper awards from journals.

John J. Myers, FACI, is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CArEE) at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) in Rolla, MO, and serves as Director for the University of Missouri System’s Statewide Transportation Center, The Missouri Center for Transportation Innovation (MCTI). 

He has been an active member of many ACI committees, has chaired/co-chaired national and international conferences over his career, and organized more than 100 technical and educational sessions at other events, many at ACI Concrete Conventions. He became an ACI Fellow in 2007 and received the Walter P. Moore, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award in 2006 and the ACI Committee Member of the Year presented by the EAC in 2009.

Fouad H. Yazbeck, FACI, is the Founder of 360 TANGENT Engineering Consultancy, which specializes in concrete technology and sustainability in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Yazbeck has 30 years of experience in the construction materials industry having designed, produced, and delivered over 23,000,000 m³ of concrete in aggressive environments. In 2000, he joined Readymix Abu Dhabi as Assistant Technical Manager and was promoted to Technical Manager in 2004 and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) in 2015. During this period, he grew the technical department into a research and development hub with central and satellite concrete laboratories. In 2017, he assumed the role of Technical & Commercial Director of Universal Concrete Products Ltd. Co. (Unimix) LLC, a concrete producer in Dubai, UAE.

He has presented his work at multiple local and international conferences and received the Innovation Track Award at the 2015 Ecocity World Summit in Abu Dhabi. Yazbeck is an ACI Fellow, a Founding Member of the ACI Lebanon Chapter and Founding President of the ACI UAE Chapter.