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Industry OrganizationsTilt-up Concrete Association The
leading trade organization in the industry for tilt-up construction is the Tilt-up
Concrete Association. Founded in 1986 by a group of construction companies,
professionals and manufacturers, the Tilt-Up Concrete Association works to expand
and improve the use of Tilt-Up as construction companies' preferred method for
commercial concrete construction.
Specifically, the TCA performs the following
functions: - Develop and expand Tilt-Up concrete markets.
- Represent
the Tilt-Up Concrete Industry to users, designers, and specifiers.
- Disseminate
engineering and architectural data.
- Provide training and educational
programs for the Industry, its users and specifiers.
- Encourage high standards
for quality in design and construction.
- Achieve a large Contractor, Associate
and Professional membership.
- Solicit members regardless of the company's
business volume.
- Encourage, recognize and reward excellence in the utilization
of Tilt-Up concrete.
- Maintain a professional stature as the best informed
organization on the subject of Tilt-Up concrete.
- Develop standards, code
provisions and specification to meet industry needs.
- Create an image
that inspires consumer confidence in our Industry.
- Collect and disseminate
statistics, ideas and information relating to the Tilt-Up industry.
- Maximize
involvement of all categories of members in Association activities.
- Promote
a continuing safety program.
- Secure efficient cooperation between the
Tilt-Up industry and architects, engineers, contractors, real estate developers,
government officials and allied or related associations and institutes.
- Issue
publications to disseminate information of value to its members, the public and
government.
- Operate without profit and no part of the income of the organization
shall inure to the benefit of any individual member.
- Represent the interests
of the Tilt-Up industry to the model building codes.
- Communicate business
opportunities to TCA members.
"The TCA is to tilt-up construction
what the AGC is to the commercial construction industry," said Ed McGuire,
Vice President of Construction for Bob
Moore Construction company and Vice President of the Board of Directors for
TCA. "The organization works to educate commercial construction companies
in Texas and around the country, and create standards to make tilt-up even more
safe and successful than it is now." For more information about this
organization, please visit the Tilt-up Concrete Association website at tilt-up.org. Bob
Moore Construction Company and TCABob Moore Construction company has been
one of the most active commercial construction companies in Texas in TCA for many
years. In 2009 Ed
McGuire, Vice President of Construction for Bob Moore Construction company, has
been named Vice President and Secretary of the Board of Directors for the TCA.
In 2008 he had served as Secretary for the Board of Directors, and prior to that
he had worked on various technical committees for the organization. Dino
Sideris, Safety Director for Bob Moore Construction company, is a member of the
Safety Board for the TCA, where he supports construction safety initiatives on
a national level. |
