About the Instructors

Andrea Boddy is the founder of Andrea Boddy Consulting, a boutique advisory firm dedicated to the North American concrete and masonry industries for the past eight years. 

With over 17 years of prior experience in business, technical, and operational leadership at North America’s largest building materials producer in multiple product lines, Andrea combines marketing, strategy, and coaching expertise to enhance profitability and drive results for her clients.

She and her team swiftly deliver high-quality projects that translate into tangible business results, while her coaching accelerates talent development to unlock full potential and drive bottom-line performance.

An inspiring speaker, Andrea’s speaking engagements and trainings are valued by audiences, who find her pre-thinking and post-on-the-job action-approaches during highly-interactive sessions leaving them with lasting learning & value.

A published author, Andrea has written 9 technical papers for various industry research journals. Andrea is a past board member of ACI Ontario and the first woman to serve on the board of Concrete Ontario.  Having started in the industry at a time when there weren’t many women “on the street”, Andrea is an active and vocal champion for diversity, women finding rewarding concrete and masonry careers, and celebrating the male allies who are true catalysts and leaders for change.  Andrea is a Professional Engineer, holding a BASc and MASc from the University of Toronto and an EMBA from Queen’s University.

Jamie Farny promotes the use of cement-based materials by focusing on key benefits like sustainability and resilience. Farny participated in the development of PCA’s Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality and promotes the use of portland-limestone cement and other blended cements to help reduce the environmental impacts of cement-based construction. He manages development of the North American Cement PCR and publication of the industry average cement EPDs.


Farny belongs to several codes and standards developing organizations that cover concrete and masonry, including the American Concrete Institute, ASTM International, and The Masonry Society. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and in spring 2024 was named a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute.

Nick Lang represents CMHA as its Vice President of Engineering and Advocacy, Masonry. In this capacity, he oversees a variety of technical initiatives related to masonry products and systems, including association efforts in a variety of codes and standards forums, development and maintenance of technical resources, and oversight and management of CMHA’s Research and Development Laboratory. Lang previously was the VP of Business Development, Director of Research and Development, and Laboratory Manager for the National Concrete Masonry Association.

Lang is a member of ASTM International and subcommittee chairman for C15.03 on Concrete Masonry Units. He is also a member of several other Technical Committees including C09 on concrete and concrete aggregates, and E06 on Performance of Buildings. He has received the ASTM Award of Merit from Committee C15 and he is a former member of ASTM’s Committee on Standards (COS). He is a member of the Board of Directors of The Masonry Society and is active with the American Concrete Institute, a member of the ICC MHRCC Committee, and Vice-Chair of the Masonry Alliance for Codes & Standards.


Lang received a Bachelor of Science degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a registered professional engineer in Maryland.

Andrea McChesney is the Executive Director of the Canadian Concrete Masonry Producers Association. Andrea completed her undergraduate degree at The University of Western Ontario, and her graduate degree at Wilfrid Laurier University.  Andrea started her career in construction in the Lafarge Leadership Development program, where she was exposed to multiple parts of the business from Quality Control, Operations, HR and finally landed in the commercial side of the aggregate business in the East GTA. After Lafarge, Andrea moved to a strategic management role with Honeywell Building Solutions where she held a portfolio specializing in large-scale healthcare, manufacturing, and automotive.

Andrea arrived at CCMPA five years ago and has been passionately working to drive market strategy and sustainability around CMU since then. Andrea is inherently collaborative and carbon-conscious, spending the majority of her time actively designing and driving the CCMPA National Levy strategic plan, networking with the matrix of teams across Canada, speaking at various industry events. Most recently, Andrea led the collaborative development of the Carbon Conversation 101/201 learning sessions, which have been delivered across Canada and US.  Working with several industry partners, these learning sessions were designed to up-skill our industry in the carbon space and give us the language to be comfortable, confident, and competitive when discussing carbon and CMU.