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Meet the Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA)

By August 21, 2019 September 9th, 2019 No Comments

Article to introduce you to the TCA, the industry’s most important trade organization for tilt-up Construction.

The leading trade organization in the industry for tilt-up construction is the Tilt-up Concrete Association. Founded in 1986 by a group of contractors, professionals and manufacturers, the Tilt-Up Concrete Association works to expand and improve the use of Tilt-Up as the preferred method for commercial concrete construction.

The TCA is to tilt-up construction what the AGC is to the commercial construction industry. The organization works to educate industry members and create standards to make tilt-up even more safe and successful than it is now.

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, President of Arlington, Texas-based Bob Moore Construction and former Vice President of the Board of Directors for TCA. “The organization works to educate industry members 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.

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