NPCA Continues Involvement in Purdue University Senior Design Project

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Since 2013, NPCA professional staff members have traveled to West Lafayette, Ind., to offer technical information and resources for Purdue University’s Civil Engineering Senior Design Project. On Sept. 6, Claude Goguen, P.E., LEED AP, Director of Sustainability and Technical Education, visited Dr. Robert B. Jacko’s Senior Design Project students for the fifth consecutive semester. Goguen and co-presenter Steve Smart with …

NPCA Professional Staff Conduct Outreach in Illinois

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NPCA professional staff member Kayla Hanson, Director of Technical Services, traveled to Marion and Carbondale, Ill., to conduct two technical presentations for specifiers and academia. On Sept. 12, Hanson presented Best Practices for Precast Concrete Tank Inspections to an audience of 70 specifiers at the Illinois Environmental Health Association South Chapter Educational Conference. An IL EHA representative requested NPCA’s participation …

NPCA Participates in AASHTO Meetings

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AASHTO – this acronym stands for American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. If you have not heard of them and build precast products for transportation-related projects, then you should. AASHTO is a non-governmental association, but the voting members are engineers and employees within all the state departments of transportation. Within this organization, there are many subgroups, which deal …