TRANSPORTATION
Building Resilient Infrastructure
A partner to DOTs and transportation agencies, the ACPA advocates for investment, safety, and an engineer’s right to choose
You want to build safe, resilient, sustainable, long-lasting, and cost-effective infrastructure. So do we. Along with our members, the American Concrete Pipe Association advocates on local, state, and national levels for legislation that drives investment into our nation’s infrastructure. Additionally, we are a proponent for the development of evacuation routes that resist damage during natural disasters such as wildfires and floods. Finally, we fully support the legislation that keeps the decision making necessary for the design of infrastructure and the products chosen in the hands of the engineers that design them.
Below is information meant to help transportation personnel better understand reinforced concrete pipe (RCP) and how the industry works to support and align with DOTs and AASHTO to advocate for many of the same causes.
Video & Blog: 16 Reasons to Choose Concrete Pipe
Precast, rigid concrete pipe (RCP) is the ideal choice for durable pipe system installations. In every region across the country, engineers, transportation departments and contractors know they can trust concrete pipe as the most resilient choice to last for over 100 years. Why? Here are the top 16 benefits of using RCP.
Watch: ACPA Webinars On-Demand
The ACPA offers up a wide-variety of on-demand webinars ready to watch whenever you are! The webinars range from installation to infrastructure resilience to box culvert design to soils. The webinars are recordings from live sessions led by some of the industry’s foremost subject matter experts.
Virtual Tour: Concrete Pipe Plant
Experience a concrete pipe plant tour virtually and see how some of the country’s most resilient, sustainable, and reliable components of infrastructure are made. The tour shows you the basic process of making a concrete pipe, through the plant, to the truck as it leaves the yard. This is a tour that is worth the watch!
Video & Blog: Protecting the Engineer’s Right to Choose
For more than a decade, the ACPA has advocated for an engineer’s right to choose, aiming to make it fair for all products and to allow the engineering community to make decisions on what pipe materials to use for federally funded projects. The engineering community and many State DOTs have joined us in the support of allowing the project design engineers to make product decisions and not the legislators.
Webpage: Innovations in Concrete Pipe
Think concrete pipe lacks innovation? Think again. Although reinforced concrete pipe (RCP or “concrete pipe”) may not have the flair of a hi-tech product, the flash of a consumer-based product, or even the proclaimed “major innovations” of its HDPE competitor, concrete pipe has, and continues to make, innovative strides in its design, manufacturing, and installation methods of the product.