Concrete Pipe News Summer 2017 Boosting ACPA’s social media presence Facebook is the ACPA’s most active business social media site with 947 LIKES. What does this mean to the ACPA at a time when its leaders are encouraging a greater social media presence? Liking a page means you’re connecting to that page. Liking a post […]
Concrete Pipe News Summer 2017 Pipe School and Pipe Show 2018 January 15-18, Murfreesboro, Tennessee Sewers and culverts must be resilient and regarded as critical to America’s health and safety. In 2009, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) launched Every Day Counts (EDC) to speed up the delivery of highway projects and to address the challenges […]
Concrete Pipe News Summer 2017
Concrete Pipe News Summer 2017 By: Clay Prewitt H2 Pre-Cast Inc. H2 Pre-Cast Inc. supplied split box sections for construction of a box culvert used for fish passage on the North Fork Issaquah Creek under the East Lake Sammamish Parkway in Issaquah, Washington. The 26-foot x 11-foot precast concrete culvert was installed in just three days. The […]
Concrete Pipe News Summer 2017 – Feature Story By: Clay Prewitt H2 Pre-Cast Inc. Spokane, Washington is completing a network of buried concrete combined sewer overflow (CSO) structures. These structures store excess water during heavy rainstorms and rapid snowmelt, until the storm surge subsides and the water can be sent to the Riverside Park Water Reclamation […]
Concrete Pipe News Summer 2017 – Editorial By: Russell Tripp American Concrete Pipe Association These old lyrics, “Getting to know you…” from the musical “The King and I,” very much define the expectations of our elected representatives at the state and federal levels who have anything to do with America’s infrastructure – below and above ground. […]
On June 13, Forterra hosted 25 representatives of the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) at its Marshalltown production facility. Staffs of the Materials, Construction, and Bridges & Structures offices represented IDOT. The Tour covered production of dry cast structures, dry cast pipe, dry cast boxes, and wet cast structures, along with material testing and quality […]
The Texas Concrete Pipe Association (TCPA) is providing a series of four Lunch & Learn Seminars for the TSPE Sabine Chapter in Beaumont from July through September. On Thursday, July 20th, Beaumont area Engineers and Contractors learned about the TxDOT Standard Inlet and Manhole Program, which provides a unified system for naming, sizes and shapes […]
Rubber Gasketed and Lined RCP Used in a Large Diameter Tunnel for LA County Sanitation District Sewer A 142-inch diameter tunnel to accommodate a 90-inch diameter PVC-lined reinforced concrete pipe sanitary sewer in the upstream portion of the Joint Outfall “C” Unit 1 Relief Trunk Sewer1 in Los Angeles County, California was required because the […]
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Aging MDOT Cast-in-Place Culvert Replaced with Precast Bill Washabaugh, Northern Concrete Pipe, Inc. Will Thompson, P.E., Lansing Transportation Service Center Manager Michigan Department of Transportation An aging three-sided cast-in-place (7-foot x 7-foot) box culvert constructed in 1946 under M-43, west of Grand Ledge, MI was compromised by degradational scour, which undermined its foundation and footings. […]
Transportation professionals met in Juneau, Alaska for the 2017 Western Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (WASHTO) Annual Meeting held June 25-28. The annual meeting was attended by State Department of Transportation CEOs, Chief Engineers, and executive leadership from the 18 westernmost states in the country, as well as executives from the U.S. Department […]