The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) – a non-profit international organization that serves to expand and improve the use of Tilt-Up as the preferred construction method – has announced the election of new board members and the slate of officers for the 2010 year.
Jimmie Ballard, National Tilt-Up Product Manager at CMC Construction Services (Houston, Texas) was elected president of the TCA Board of Directors at its annual meeting on Feb. 4. Ballard serves as chairman of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) C-650 Tilt-Up Certification Committee. He has been a member of the construction industry for more than 30 years and is extremely skilled on the Tilt-Up construction process.
Other officers serving the Board for 2010 are:
- President-elect Ed McGuire of Bob Moore Construction (Arlington, Texas)
- Treasurer Glenn Doncaster of Citadel Contractors, Inc. (Apex, N.C.)
- Past-president Jim MacKinnon of Saunders Construction Inc. (Centennial, Colo.)
- Vice-president and Secretary positions will be selected during the June meeting.
Elected to three-year terms to the Board for the first time are:
- Barclay Gebel of Concrete Strategies, LLC (St. Louis, Mo.)
- Shane Miller of DIVCON, Inc. (Spokane Valley, Wash.)
Two members of the Board re-elected for an additional term include:
- Glenn Doncaster of Citadel Contractors, Inc. (Apex, N.C.)
- David Tomasula, P.E., of CON/STEEL Tilt-Up Systems (Dayton, Ohio)
Re-elected by the Global Associates Council to serve a three-year term is:
- Mike Wolstenholme of Meadow Burke (Chesterfield, Va.)
Those continuing service on the Board are:
- Laurence Smith of J.W. Lindsay Enterprises, Ltd. (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada)
- Shawn Hickey of SiteCast Construction Corp. (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
- Glen Stephens of SAA Architecture (Laurel, Md. and Charlotte, N.C.)
- Clay Fischer of Woodland Construction Company (Jupiter, Fla.)
- Joe Steinbicker, P.E., of Steinbicker & Associates Inc. (Dayton, Ohio)
- Kimberly Corwin of A.H. Harris & Sons (Newington, Conn.)
- Tom Stecker of Composite Technologies Corporation (Boone, Iowa)
In other business, TCA announced its 2010 Tilt-Up Achievement Award winners, recipients of the Peter Courtois Memorial, Robert Aiken Innovation, Murray Parker Memorial and Irving Gill Distinguished Architect awards during the annual business meeting.
Detailed information on the award winners and copies of the meeting minutes are available through TCA by calling (319) 895-6911 or visiting www.tilt-up.org.
TCA was founded in 1986 to improve the quality and acceptance of site cast Tilt-Up construction, a construction method in which concrete wall panels are cast on-site and tilted into place. Tilt-Up construction is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States, combining the advantages of reasonable cost with low maintenance, durability, speed of construction and minimal capital investment. For more information about the TCA, visit www.tilt-up.org.