Angel Herrera: ACI Honorary Member
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The American Concrete Institute (ACI) is a nonprofit technical and educational society organized in 1904 and one of the world's leading authorities on concrete technology. The organization elects Honorary Members from persons of eminence whom have performed extraordinary meritorious service to the Institute or in the field of interest to the Institute.

On its annual convention this past March in Chicago IL., the Institute elevated five professionals to the rank of Honorary Members. Amongst them, Engineer Angel Herrera, an Agrupado with the Puerto Rico House.

ANGEL HERRERA: is a Consulting Professional Engineer in San Juan, PR. He was a managing Partner of CMA Architects & Engineers LLP, a multidisciplinary firm based in San Juan, PR, until his retirement at year end 2000. Herrera has presented papers and chaired sessions for ACI conventions. Angel is a member of ACI Subcommittees 318-L, International Liaison, and 318-WA, International Workshop-Structural Concrete in the Americas, and ACI Committees 341, Earthquake-Resistant Concrete Bridges; 342, Evaluation of Concrete Bridges and Bridge Elements; and 374, Performance-Based Seismic Design of Concrete Buildings; and Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 343, Concrete Bridge Design. He is a past member of the ACI International Committee and the Fellows Nomination Committee. He was responsible for technical matters at two ACI conventions held in Puerto Rico. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a member of the College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico.

Herrera received his BS in civil engineering from the University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, in 1957, and his MS in civil engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR, in 1979. He has authored or coauthored papers published in various technical journals.

His research interests include the use and development of concrete as the preferred material for the construction of infrastructure, institutional and commercial buildings, and housing.

Herrera has practiced forensic engineering in federal and state courts. He is a licensed professional engineer in Puerto Rico, Florida (ret.), Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona.

"An Agrupado in every esteemed position."