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Member News for August 2021 | PCI Mid-Atlantic

Written by Dawn Decker | August 11, 2021

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.

Our membership came together to celebrate our resiliency as an industry, discuss the future state of precast, prestressed concrete in our regional area, and to review newly established university programs that are bringing our products and members into college classrooms.

The following producer member companies were represented at our Membership Meeting in historic Williamsburg, Virginia August 4 - 6.

  • Atlantic Metrocast
  • Ernest Maier/Concrete Building Systems
  • Faddis Concrete Products
  • High Concrete Group
  • Metromont Corporation
  • Nitterhouse Concrete Products
  • Northeast Prestressed Products
  • Northeast Precast
  • PennStress
  • Shockey Precast
  • Smith-Midland Corporation
  • Tindall Corporation

Associate member sponsorships helped make the meeting a success! Their generous financial support and participation help fund these family-oriented events. Participating companies included:

  • Advanced Concrete Technologies
  • American Progress Group
  • Belden Tri-State Building Materials
  • CONAC Concrete Accessories
  • DEVITA
  • Endicott
  • Fister Inc.
  • GCP Applied Technologies
  • High Concrete Accessories
  • Insteel Wire Products
  • JVI, Inc.
  • Master Builders Solutions
  • Summers Trucking
  • Summitville Tiles
  • Sylvan Products
  • TD&H Engineering

Special thanks to our guest speaker Jim Pudleiner, PE, Vice President, Walker Consultants, Wayne PA. Jim discussed current trends impacting parking demand as well as the future state of parking in our industry. A well-received presentation by our membership.

Much appreciation to Richard Garber, AIA, GRO Architects and University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design lecturer, Mohamed Mahgoub, Ph.D., PE, FACI, Associate Professor and Program Director of The Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program at NJIT, and Gernot Riether, Pd.D., DI, Director, New Jersey School of Architecture, Hillier College of Architecture & Design, NJIT. Terrific curriculum and partnerships with our membership to teach the next generation of architects and engineers the benefits and advantages of designing with precast, prestressed concrete.

And special shout out to Randy Wilson, PCI, Director, Architectural Precast Systems, and Marty McIntyre, Executive Director, PCI Foundation, for speaking at our meeting. Lots of great things on the go with our New Architectural Certification Program and PCI Foundation programs and activities.

 

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