"A Concrete Solution," by Jonathan Barnes, The Cooperator, April 2010
The International Concrete Repair Institute's (ICRI) formation began with an industry-wide outcry in February 1988, when attendees at the annual World of Concrete trade seminar voiced great frustration over the lack of industry standards and guidelines for concrete repair.
Around that time, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its own figures estimating that 50 percent of concrete repairs being done would fail, says Marjorie Lynch, an engineer with Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. and president-elect of the Metro New York chapter of ICRI.