About

Sutter Engineering specializes in providing technical support to companies bringing new products and technologies to the concrete construction business as well as assisting owners, contractors, designers, and concrete producers with adoption of new technologies. The major focus of the firm is to help the cement and concrete industry attain carbon neutrality by the year 2035 by adopting practices to use portland cement in a more sustainable manner, or by using alternative materials. Specific tasks include developing new specifications and testing standards and working to integrate products into existing specifications and testing standards. Sutter Engineering can support a new product by helping to integrate the product into the existing codes and standards environment, or by leading development of new standards and specifications. We also can provide testing and applied R&D to aid in product development.

The firms principal, Dr. Sutter, has over 40 years experience in materials characterization and materials engineering and research with the past 25 years focussing on cement and concrete. He has led numerous concrete research studies and is widely published in the areas of reuse of industrial byproducts such as fly ash and slag cement, and concrete durability.

Sutter Engineering also provides targeted training for engineers, architects, or laborers on concrete-making materials, with an emphasis on new and alternative materials, and how to integrate those materials into construction practices.

Dr. Sutter is also a recognized resource for advising and educating policy makers with regards to development of clean procurement legislation related to concrete, and other policy initiatives to help achieve carbon neutrality in the concrete industry by 2035.