Daniel W. Falconer, the American Concrete Institute's managing director of engineering, died on July 29 in Hartland, Mich., after a 16-month battle with colon cancer. He was 59 years old.
Falconer had been with the model-code-writing body since 1998. He was the secretary for the group's technical activities committee and the staff liaison to the committee developing "ACI 318-14: Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete." He also represented ACI’s interests within the code, standards and specifications writing activities of numerous concrete-related groups. Falconer was named a Fellow of ACI in 2002.