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Sara D. (Sally) Ramsdell
Concrete Technologist
President
Concrete Quality Consulting, Inc.
Lexington, KY
 

Sally is a native of Salt Lake City, Utah. She left there after high school to study geology at Antioch College in Ohio and has lived in Lexington since 1965. After marriage and motherhood she returned to college at the University of Kentucky, where she majored in civil engineering. She worked for a geotechnical engineering firm as a laboratory technician and draftsman; later she supervised field and laboratory technicians on soils and concrete projects.

For five years she was quality control manager for a six-plant central Kentucky ready-mixed concrete producer. In 1981 she founded Concrete Quality Consulting, Inc., a firm that provides technical services in concrete materials testing and quality control. She serves as its president. She is a member of the American Concrete Institute and was honored in 1988 by election as a Fellow of ACI. She is also a member of ASTM and is active in the International Concrete Repair Institute, Kentucky Ready-Mixed Concrete Association, Associated Builders and Contractors, the Construction Financial Management Association, the American Society for Quality, and the National Association of Women in Construction.

In her nonprofessional life, she is an arbitrator and mediator for the Better Business Bureau and shares ownership of a Christmas tree farm with her husband and daughter.