Pipe Installation

Speaker:  Matt Childs, PE – Turner

Presentation Description

“Pipe Installation” will be an interactive presentation of the best practices of gravity
Pipe installation. Students will have the opportunity to discuss with experts from the precast concrete
Pipe industry as well as experienced contractor, inspector and engineering professionals to improve
The important stage of pipe installation that, along with proper design and materials, will lead to a successful gravity pipe project.

Speaker Bio

Matt Childs is Chief Operating Officer with TurnerCo, a precast concrete products producer with facilities in Rhome and Lockhart, Texas. He has more than 20 years of experience in the infrastructure industry.

Childs earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Baylor University and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington.

Before joining the American Concrete Pipe Association in 2000, Childs worked as project engineer and project manager with two engineering firms in Fort Worth, Texas working on infrastructure design, market development, and recruiting. He served as ACPA’s Director of Engineering Services before becoming President in August 2005. He left the ACPA in 2017 and joined HawkeyePedershaab as V.P. Sales for the North American Market. In 2020 he joined TurnerCo as COO.

While President of ACPA, Childs led the expansion of the ACPA throughout the USA and influenced concrete pipe industries in several countries while recruiting a technical team to help producer members expand market share.