Member News is a special monthly post exclusively featuring the latest news from PCI Mid-Atlantic Chapter members. Content ranges from new hires to company awards and achievements to grand openings and company expansions.
- Tindall Corporation to divide into Tindall Building Systems, Tindall Infrastructure Group. “This realignment of the business allows our company to pay that much closer attention to what we do well and what sets us apart as we aggressively seek ways to continue to serve our customers and deliver innovative solutions to numerous market segments,” said Tindall president and CEO Greg Force. “Because of the strength and tenure of our team and their commitment to bring passion and ingenuity to every challenging opportunity, Tindall distinguishes itself as more than a provider of precast concrete products. We’ve become an industry leader in developing cutting-edge building system and infrastructure solutions, and we are excited to take this next big step in Tindall’s history.” To learn more about Tindall’s strategic realignment click here.
- Team Metromont Takes Home Project Precast 2022 Title. About 150 attendees gathered to see six student teams compete for the Project Precast award during the 2022 Precast Show and PCI Convention in Kansas City. This year’s challenge: Design a FEMA tornado shelter for Daniel Young Elementary, a K-5 school. Each team, sponsored by a PCI Producer member or a professional engineering firm, had three students, an architecture, engineering, and construction management or concrete management student who work together for two days to design a project. Students apply as individuals, not as teams, and were selected from more than 40 students who applied this year. Students on the winning team – Alexander Fairly, Middle Tennessee University CIM program; Emily Rupright, Washington University – St. Louis architecture student; and Josh Shade, University of Oklahoma architectural engineering student. Special shout out to team mentor Suzanne Aultman, Vice President of Engineering, featured in PCI Mid-Atlantic’s Women in Construction blog series. To read Suzanne’s blog, click here.
- Hauling History: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Hauled by Ephrata, PA’s, Summers Trucking. For over a decade, Ephrata based Lester R. Summers Trucking (Summers Trucking) has hauled equipment and material across the country and beyond for NASA. On December 25, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on the northeastern coast of South America. Summers has worked alongside NASA hauling JWST each step of the way. The James Webb Space Telescope project started about 25 years ago and carries a $10 billion price tag. NASA said, “JWST’s revolutionary technology will explore every phase of cosmic history- from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe and everything in between. Webb will reveal new and unexpected discoveries and help humankind understand the origins of the universe and our place in it.” To view the YouTube video and learn more about this extraordinary partnership between NASA and Summers Trucking, click here.