Architectural Precast Concrete Best Practices
Architectural Precast Concrete Best Practices: Specifying while Controlling Quality and Cost. This webinar will focus on the best ways control quality and costs through early planning, also addressing new covid related concerns related to jobsites. We'll introduce PCI's updated certification program. We will walk through best practices for designing with architectural precast concrete.
Thursday, July 22, 2021, noon CST
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Credits: AIA 1.0 HSW LU or 1.0 PDH (only available to day-of attendees)
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about PCI's new architectural precast concrete certification system and how to specify architectural precast concrete.
- See how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed jobsite practices and how the precast concrete industry adheres to those new goals / guidelines
- Learn practical ways that design professionals can help control quality and cost when specifying precast concrete
- See the aesthetic possibilities of precast as we take a visual tour of some precast concrete project examples.
Presenter: Dirk McClure (LPCI, LEED AP, Assoc. AIA, CSI) is the Director of Business Development for Enterprise Precast Concrete’s Kansas City office. He oversees the five-state market territory of Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas and Northern Oklahoma. He received his Bachelor of Interior Architecture from Kansas State University’s College of Architecture, Planning and Design. Prior to joining precast concrete industry (in 2004) he spent 8 years practicing sports architecture. His diverse AEC industry background gives him a unique overall knowledge of the built environment. Dirk served for 10 years on PCI’s Sustainability Council and just completed a 3 year appointment at the Marking Committee Chair for the Altus Group which is a precast innovation consortium.
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