ASTM International presented R. Douglas Hooton with its Katharine and Bryant Mather Member Contribution Award, administered by its committee on concrete and concrete aggregates (C09).

The award, given annually, cites Hooton’s distinguished leadership and significant 

contributions in multiple C09 roles since 1985, notably advancing standards for concrete and its chemical reactions, and significantly enhancing concrete technology and its practical applications.

Hooton currently serves as professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, a position he has held since 2021. A member of ASTM International since the early 1980s, he has spent over 50 years focused on concrete sustainability, durability, and the fundamentals of cementitious materials. He has also done extensive work on performance of concrete in service, as well as enabling lower-carbon cements and concrete.

Hooton has previously been honored with the Bryant Mather Award (2022), the Frank E. Richart Award (2013), the Award of Merit (2003), and the Sanford E. Thompson Award (1998).

Beyond ASTM, Hooton is also a member of RILEM, the American Concrete Institute, the American Ceramic Society, the Institute of Concrete Technology (UK), and several prominent engineering institutions in his home country of Canada. He earned his bachelor’s (1974) and master’s (1975) of applied science degrees in civil engineering from the University of Toronto, going on to earn his doctorate in the field from Ontario’s McMaster University (1981).

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