Growing up with ACI

ByAndrés Lee

Instituto Nicaragüense del Cemento y del Concreto

Nicaragua is a small country in Central America

•Main cities: Managua, León, Granada, Chinandega, Estelí, Matagalpa,

•Population: 6.3 million (2016)

•Gross domestic product: 13.0 billion USD (2016)

•GDP per capita: 2,120.3 USD (2016)

•Construction is growing up at 9% in 2017*

Source: The Global Competitiveness Report 2017-2018Mi i t i d H i d C édit Públi

ACI Certification Programs are very important for improving the concrete QC

No any ACI Certification had been carried out in Nicaragua by 2014

Our target is that all the concrete technicians to be certificated, and also the inspectors

With ACI support, we can offer the ACI Certification Programs by

ourselves

With Alejandro Durán´s support, we have already made five

Concrete Field Testing Technician Graduations

The first graduation of ACI Concrete Construction Special

Inspector is in progress

And the next year, we will go through the ACI Concrete Strength and Aggregate Testing Technician

Programs

Thanks to the ACI´s support the construction

industry is growing up and getting more

professional

We are growing up withACI

Thank you