{"id":7951,"date":"2016-02-15T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.167.124.155\/tilt-uptoday\/?p=7951"},"modified":"2016-02-16T10:17:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T15:17:52","slug":"concrete-strategies-inc-newest-tca-certified-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/2016\/02\/15\/concrete-strategies-inc-newest-tca-certified-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Concrete Strategies, Inc. \u2013 Newest TCA Certified Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3271\" src=\"http:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC_4347.jpg\" alt=\"CSI\" width=\"680\" height=\"340\" \/><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tilt-up.org\/members\/member_card.php?id=10007\" target=\"_blank\">Concrete Strategies, Inc. (CSI)<\/a> recently became the ninth tilt-up company approved as a Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA)<br \/>\nCertified Contractor. The TCA Company Certification program, which focuses on safety and quality control, is rapidly gaining recognition from the design community and is beginning to be included as a qualification for bidding work.<\/p>\n<p>Concrete Strategies employs over 250 field personnel and completes over $100,000,000 in revenue annually, from its home office in St. Louis, MO. As other TCA Certified companies, CSI has an exemplary safety program with a quality control\/quality assurance program to match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCSI\u2019s safety program is comprehensive and relevant, but it&#8217;s the culture of safety and attention to detail that sets TCA certified companies apart,\u201d said Ed Sauter, TCA staff in charge of certification. \u201cCSI for example, provides an air-conditioned tent to workers in the summer to help reduce the risk of heat stroke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quality control measures were also first class according to Sauter. \u201cA good QA\/QC program is important,\u201d said Sauter. \u201cBut the evidence that they follow the program is in the consistency of the finished product and from the accolades in the requisite reference letters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The TCA program also evaluates company structure, insurance coverage, OSHA metrics and a host of other parameters. This program has accepted 9 firms with several others \u201cin process\u201d.  For more information about this program and its participants, contact the Tilt-Up Concrete Association or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tilt-up.org\/certification\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.tilt-up.org\/certification<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Concrete Strategies, Inc. (CSI) recently became the ninth tilt-up company approved as a Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) Certified Contractor. The TCA Company Certification program, which focuses on safety and quality control, is rapidly gaining recognition <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/2016\/02\/15\/concrete-strategies-inc-newest-tca-certified-company\/\" title=\"Concrete Strategies, Inc. \u2013 Newest TCA Certified Company\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[25,262],"class_list":{"0":"post-7951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-industry","8":"category-member_news","9":"tag-certification","10":"tag-company-certification"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8115,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions\/8115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}