{"id":15491,"date":"2021-06-03T10:39:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.167.124.155\/tilt-uptoday\/?p=15491"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:27:34","slug":"growth-and-getting-back-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/2021\/06\/03\/growth-and-getting-back-to-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth and Getting Back to Normal!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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First, it is an honor of a lifetime to serve as the 2021 TCA president!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me introduce myself: My name is Barclay Gebel. I grew up on a farm in Hillsboro, Missouri, and after graduating from Hillsboro High School in 1988, I when straight to work as a union apprentice carpenter at Clayco Construction. My father, John, worked at Clayco as a project superintendent and opened the door for my career in construction. In 1988, Clayco built their very first tilt-up panel and I was one of the several carpenters on that job. Little did I know at the time that the tilt-up panel I was working on would end up being my career! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the early 1990s, I traveled around the country for Clayco Tilt-Up as a union carpenter superintendent. Those years of traveling and actually working in the field with dirt under my fingernails forming, pouring, and erecting tilt-up panels was the best \u201ccollege\u201d education for my career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, I serve as vice president of tilt-up and precast services for Concrete Strategies, LLC. Concrete Strategies is based out of St. Louis and is a subsidiary of Clayco. In 2020, Concrete Strategies earned $277 million in revenue and was ranked sixteenth in Engineering News Record\u2019s Top Concrete Contractors List.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tilt-up industry is on fire with growth and opportunity right now and, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Concrete Strategies has experienced great growth in the industrial distribution market. Projected revenues for 2021 are around $400 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With all this growth in our industry and the availability of the COVID-19 vaccines, the TCA is making a big push to safely get back to \u201cnormal.\u201d  In 2020, the TCA held a successful virtual convention and although it was well attended, there is nothing like meeting face-to-face with the members and leaders in the tilt-up industry who are all working toward one common goal: to make the tilt-up industry the best possible. This year, in 2021, Concrete Strategies will be hosting the 2021 TCA convention, and we are looking for forward to a safe and in-person \u201cSHOW ME\u201d convention!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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