Webinars

This presentation introduces and reviews of AASHTO R-73, which provides excellent guidance on the evaluation of Pre-installed precast concrete pipe, box culverts, manholes and drainage inlets.  R-73 describes criteria for acceptance, repairable and rejection criteria of precast products.   Examples of acceptable and rejectable precast products will be shared in this presentation. Intended for inspectors in the field and at the manufacturing facility.  This guide is not intended for the evaluation of installed precast concrete pipe, box culverts, three-sided structures, manholes, drainage inlets or other precast products.

What is the best pipe for your project? The properly installed one! This presentation covers the best practices for pipe and culvert installation. Learn how properly adhering to DOT installation standards for pipe will increase the longevity and value of infrastructure by reducing potential failures and decreasing maintenance costs. Gain an understanding of the differences that ACPA has documented comparing the installation of flexible and rigid culverts at the city, county, and state levels. This course can empower specifiers, designers, inspectors, and installers to ensure existing and planned pipe projects adhere to specified standards.

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This webinar reviews the best practices for pipe installation and includes some new, and some tried and true, techniques from manufacturers, contractors, and designers. We will also dive into OSHA requirements and safety practices.

Ethics is usually not an easy decision.  Rarely are we faced with an Ethical question that is clearly black and white; right or wrong.  It is rarely a clear decision. Doing the ethical thing is not always an easy decision and determining the correct path may include many variables that cause us to pause and consider what the right decision may be.  We will discuss some ethical scenarios that illustrate this point and provide us some insights into what the correct approach could be and the factors that influence our decision-making process.

Take a tour through Concrete Pipe & Precast (CP&P)’s Ashland, VA, plant and get a glimpse of what it takes to make a concrete pipe. Hank Gottschalk, CP&P Senior Manager, and Tryg Hoff, P.E., Northeast Region Engineer for the American Concrete Pipe Association, walk you through the plant and give you insights into the process of the production of concrete pipe. The tour will start with the aggregate, take you through the welding of the cages, pouring and curing of the concrete, testing, and eventually on to the jobsite. This is an opportunity to see the production process from the comfort of your chair!

For the past 17 years, through its annual Project Achievement Award, the American Concrete Pipe Association has celebrated the innovation put forth when state DOTs have partnered with precast pipe and box producers on difficult projects. With the additional cooperation of the project engineers and contractors, these teams have turned problems into opportunities, and enhanced our nation’s infrastructure in the process. This is not a seminar regarding standard design procedures and common installation practices. Instead, this webinar will review some of the exciting projects that have been submitted to the ACPA for the Project Achievement Award over the years, and what has made them so unique.

Reinforced concrete pipe (RCP) is the only pipe that offers the Engineer a comprehensive suite of quality control standards that cover each critical stage of service from initial manufacturing through post-installation final acceptance and beyond. When specified, this total quality assurance approach provides the Engineer and Contractor with clearly communicated acceptance criteria and mitigation protocols for each stage of concrete pipe service, including manufacturing, pre-installation, in-process construction, post-installation final acceptance, and in-service operations. If your goals include a quality-controlled resilient infrastructure as well as professionally managed construction contracts, then you will benefit from this webinar.

Building safer and more resilient communities comes in a variety of ways, from product, to design, to installation. This webinar will focus on how adhering to DOT installation standards for concrete pipe will increase the longevity and value of infrastructure by reducing potential failures and decreasing maintenance costs.

Understanding the history and the basic and unique attributes of concrete pipe will give you a better understanding of where we are headed in the future. This presentation hits upon understanding the design, strength, installation, performance, and true value of concrete pipe. Attendees will have the chance to see a life cycle analysis of drainage systems and better understand the connection between the sustainability and the resilience of concrete pipe. Whether you know a little or a lot about concrete pipe, you will find this presentation informative!

Asset Management provides agencies/owners both a long-term roadmap toward better supervision of asset inventories, as well as data necessary for logical material placement and usage. This information allows agencies to make sound engineering decisions backed by years of data, which in turn improves resilience of the infrastructure system and maximizes sustainability.

In this webinar, we look at current issues and actions that impact such decisions in critical locations such as evacuation routes, flood prone areas, emergency access routes, and others. We also explore how asset management data can be used to help prepare for recovery from major natural disasters, and to determine the most appropriate mitigation planning.