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QC, QA, and QCast
February 9, 2023 @ 11:05 am - 12:00 pm CST
Location: Grand Ballroom C
Speaker: Margarita Takou, PhD, P.E., ENV SP – American Concrete Pipe Association
Presentation Description:
Quality Control and Assurance of the precast infrastructure is streamlined with a plethora of peer reviewed practices and tools that will be discussed during this presentation. These tools are available starting from production in the plant level to inspection throughout its service life. The short-term reward of minimal quality control and assurance cost or time saving during production, construction, and post installation inspection is usually far outweighed by the consequences of unscheduled maintenance.
The use of proven and resilient products as well as consistency in inspection, reporting, personnel training, and equipment verification is required to ensure our infrastructure reaches or exceeds its designed service life.
Speaker Bio:
Currently based in Irving, Texas, she has been working for the ACPA since September of 2016. As Technical Resources Manager, she works with members and engineers on any technical items related to concrete pipes and boxes. She manages the QCast program and is also a committee staff liaison between Research, Quality, and Safety.
