Registration Open for Pipe School 2022 Back in-person and with a special streaming option for transportation agency personnel Irving, Texas – Irving, Texas – November 17, 2021 – The American Concrete Pipe Association (ACPA) is excited to announce the opening of registration for Pipe School 2022. Back in-person for 2022, Pipe School will be held […]
Understanding Product Emissions and Concrete Pipe In this three-part series, the ACPA takes a look at the environmental factors surrounding concrete pipe, its production, and its usage. Concrete, the most widely used building material in the world, is ripe with misperceptions about its environmental impact. Each of these blogs will help you better understand concrete […]
Environmental Considerations and Carbon Footprint of Drainage Pipe In this four part series, the ACPA takes a look at the environmental factors surrounding concrete pipe, its production, and its usage. As the most widely used building material around the world, there is a lot of mis-understanding of the impact of concrete and its products on […]
Think reinforced concrete pipe means a boring, gray construction? Not if you incorporate some creativity! Many cities and municipalities are getting outside the box and using inventive designs to increase the culvert’s functionality or visual appeal. Here are four ways concrete pipe and box culverts enhance the local community with inspired, purposeful designs. Complement the […]
Proper installation of storm drain pipelines is a concern facing city engineers and inspectors across the United States. Whether pipes are rigid or flexible, a faulty installation can cost contractors as well as taxpayers time and expense. That’s why the American Concrete Pipe Association is partnering with cities, offering free pipe installation seminars for contractors […]
Irving, Texas — Dec. 12, 2019 — Over the past five years, legislation calling for “open and fair” competition in the procurement of pipes for taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects has been repeatedly introduced in the House of Representatives and in more than a dozen state legislatures. Each and every attempt has failed for good reason. If enacted, so-called “open […]
By: Jeffery A. Hite, Director of Technical Promotions, Rinker Materials Trygve Hoff, P.E., Northeast Region engineer, ACPA Douglas Holdener, P.E., Florida Engineer, ACPA Concrete pipe’s history of performance in North America began well over 100 years ago. Throughout its 100-plus year history, concrete pipe has proven itself to be a rock, both in the literal sense […]
It took nearly 20,000 feet—more than three and a half miles—of concrete pipe running under a railroad, a local road, several access roads, an expressway, and a golf course, and over two streams to reach from the Gerald R. Ford International Airport (GFIA) to its new onsite stormwater detention and treatment system, and from there […]
Join us in Arlington, TX for this year’s Pipe Show, featuring the all new Pipe Show with B2B Exchange. For more information and registration, click here.