Lee Thrasher

Lee is a genuine concrete enthusiast and represents the Komponent® and Type-K expansive cement products from CTS Cement Manufacturing throughout the Southeastern US in promoting the use of Shrinkage-Compensating Concrete & Enhanced Concrete Mixtures. He has been an active member of the concrete industry for most of his career, both during and after his time earning a degree in Concrete Industry Management from Middle Tennessee State University. He is thrilled to now be working with CTS, founded by one of the industry’s best innovators Ed Rice. Mr. Rice who along with Professor Alexander Klein created today’s Type K Cement and the basis for what has become the shrinkage-compensating concrete market. Ed went on to develop other Belitic Calcium Sulfoluminate (BCSA) Cement products known today under the Rapid Set brand. Lee is a passionate advocate for better concrete, ready-mix producers, industry advancement, implementing specialty & innovative materials into concrete construction, and anything else that involves our greatest building material ever invented – concrete.
He currently serves ACI as the Chair of 329 Performance Criteria for Ready Mix Concrete, is a voting member of 304, 363, and an associate member of 301-J & K, and 330 Technical Committees. Locally, he is a past president of Georgia Chapter ACI and currently serves on the Georgia Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s Technical subcommittee for Design & Control of Concrete to improve adherence to concrete acceptance testing standards. As the Chair of ASTM C09.60 Fresh Concrete Tests and Sub-Secretary of C09.61 Testing for Strength, Lee also participates in ACI C610, the Certification Committee for Concrete Field Technicians. When not talking concrete, he’s probably off glamping somewhere with his amazing wife and family, having fun in a National Park, golfing, or taking their dogs for a hike.