Why You Should Personally Invite Your Competition To Join The TCA
FOUR PROVERBS SUGGESTING IT IS BETTER TO WORK WITH EACH OTHER RATHER THAN AGAINST EACH OTHER. KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE, BUT YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part II (1974), written by Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola, said, “My father taught me many things here — he taught me in this room. […]
What is the Value in Membership?
Why belong to a trade association? What’s in it for me? These are questions often asked by potential members as their membership and participation in the Tilt-Up Concrete Association are solicited. This came to the forefront recently when a non-member firm asked why their name wasn’t mentioned in a feature article. Quite simply, if it […]
Worthy of Remembrance
The design, engineering and construction of the Missouri Korean War Veterans Memorial By: Mitch Bloomquist | Tilt-Up Concrete Association Each year, the Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) selects a new location for its Annual Convention. Last year, Irvine, California was selected and Amelia Island, Florida will host the event in 2012. This year, the TCA selected […]
Dedication – 25 Years of TCA Membership
By: James R. Baty II | Tilt-Up Concrete Association It is hard to believe that this past year, the Tilt-Up Concrete Association turned 25 years old. It seems only yesterday that we were celebrating the 20th year with our friends during the World of Concrete and in a blink of an eye another five is […]
Get Involved!
Hopefully by the time you are reading this you are on your way to, enjoying yourself at, or just returning from the 2011 TCA Annual Convention. The annual convention is a great way to dive in to all that the TCA has to offer. Taking advantage of all that the TCA is doing is the […]
The Value of Participation
By: Mitch Bloomquist, Tilt-Up Concrete Association A common suggestion of many non-profit organizations such as trade associations is that the association belongs to and is shaped by its members. When it comes to the TCA, this is absolutely the case. Oftentimes, this fact is overlooked by existing and potential members. The mission of the Tilt-Up […]
TCA Announces Availability of Superintendent’s Job Log Book
TCA has announced the availability of superintendent job log books for members. “This will allow our superintendents to quantify their work experience and allow our corporation to qualify our staff’s progress,” said Shawn Hickey, Vice President of SiteCast Construction Corp. from Ottawa, Ontario. Made with waterproof front and back covers, the book is wire bound […]
My Last Letter to TCA Members
I can hardly believe that 2010 is already coming to a close, which means the end of my term as president of the TCA. I have greatly enjoyed my year as president. This opportunity gave me the chance to get to know more of our members, continue to learn from the best in our industry, […]
2011 Tilt-Up Achievement Winners
By: Wendy Ward, Constructive Communication, Inc. TCA has announced the recipients of the 2011 Tilt-Up Achievement Awards. Now in its 20th consecutive year, the Achievement Awards program was established by TCA to honor projects that use site-cast Tilt-Up concrete to introduce new building types, advance industry technology and provide unique solutions to building programs. Projects […]
Lindsay Lampasona
One of the most talked about subjects in today’s industry is the status of our economy. Many in the Tilt-Up industry have been working diligently to make the most of this downturn by finding new and innovative ways to offer additional services in more places. One such contractor is Lindsay Lampasona, LLC of Norfolk, Mass. […]
Convention Wrap Up
KANSAS CITY, HERE WE COME What’s the phrase they use in the movies – “It’s a wrap?” That phrase certainly applies to the 2010 Annual Convention completed this past October in Irvine, California. The convention theme was “Building for Disaster Protection.” The program opened with the unveiling of the Tilt-Up Blast testing video. You can […]
Robert Libs
TCA member Robert E. Libs, 69, of Floyds Knobs, Ind., died Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. The Floyd County native was a graduate of Providence High School and attended Purdue University before returning home to help operate his family business, Arthur M. Libs & Sons. Bob helped build the business into a major award-winning contracting rm […]