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Project Achievement Award Winners
February 9, 2023 @ 10:10 am - 11:00 am CST
Location: Grand Ballroom C
Speakers: Josh Beakley, P.E. – American Concrete Pipe Association
Presentation Description:
English Churchman, Robert South, once said, “Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.” 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 session on standard design procedures and common installation practices. Instead, this session 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.
Speaker Bio:
Josh Beakley is Vice President of Engineering for the American Concrete Pipe Association. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Virginia. Josh received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ and received his Masters in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Josh has been with the American Concrete Pipe Association since 1994. Prior to joining ACPA, he worked as a Civil Engineer for the Bechtel Power Corporation.
In his job functions for the American Concrete Pipe Association Josh represents the industry on national standards making committees. He also coordinates research and design programs for the precast concrete culvert industry. Occasionally, he assists engineers with the design and specification of precast concrete pipe and box culverts as well as performing educational seminars.
Josh is a member of ASCE, ACI, ASTM, and participates in AASHTO functions. He is a Spangler Award Winner, and an Award of Merit Honoree of ASTM, as well as a Heger Award Honoree of ACPA. He was also an ASCE Outstanding Reviewer in 2020 for the ASCE Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice.
