Precast Inc. - May/June 2008 - (Page 76) vice president and four Board members during the ACI Spring 2008 Convention in Los Angeles in April. New ACI President Luis E. Garcia, Bogota, Colombia, officially assumed his one-year term, becoming the first ACI president from outside the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. In addition, new Vice President Richard D. Stehly began his two-year term, while four new board members began their three-year terms. Garcia is partner and president of Proyectos y Diseños Ltda., a structural engineering consulting firm in Bogota that he founded in 1980. He has supervised the structural design of numerous buildings, industrial structures and bridges in Colombia and other Latin American countries. He has also been engaged in teaching and research at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, since 1973. Garcia has been a member of numerous ACI technical committees, including ACI Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code, since 1985. Garcia received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, and a master’s in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Richard D. Stehly is a principal of American Engineering Testing Inc. in Minneapolis. A member of ACI since 1980, he is the current chair of the Financial Advisory Committee and the Board Advisory Committee on Sustainable Development. For more than 25 years, he has taught soil engineering at community colleges in the Minneapolis area. Stehly received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota. Elected as a new member of ACI’s Board of Direction is Claude Bedard, vice president and general manager of the North American Admixtures Division of The Euclid Chemical Co. in St. Hubert, Quebec. Bedard is the current chair of the ACI Foundation and the Strategic Development Council. Beverly Garnant has also begun her post as a member of ACI’s Board of Direction. She is the executive director of the American Society of Concrete Contractors in St. Louis, a position she has held since 2003. Garnant serves on several ACI committees. Also joining the ACI Board of Direction for the first time is Colin Lobo. Lobo is the senior vice president of the Engineering Division of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association in Silver Spring, Md. Lobo is a member of several ACI committees. Andrea Schokker, a Henderson Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Protective Technology Center at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa., also joins the ACI Board of Direction this year. Schokker is active in many ACI committees and serves as the chair of the Advisory Committee for Young Members and Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 423, Prestressed Concrete. Overhead Cranes, Monorails & Hoists • Over 20 years experience in metal fabrication • Strong and reliable New England craftsmanship • Manufacturing for reputable precasters • Serving residential and commercial customers • Custom-built box girder cranes • Serving all New England • Modernizations • Retro-fits • Upgrades • Fix/install radio controls • Specialists in variable frequency drive controllers (Factory Trained Reps) • Sales • Installation • Service & repair • Inspections • Evaluation & consultation • Engineering service • Yearly maintenance contract • OSHA compliance inspections • Special trolley hoists for concrete applications Distributing most major brands including: • • • • • • • • • • Cranemart Company CM Shaw Box (units & parts) Yale (units & parts) Budgit Electro-motive Telemotive Duct-o-wire Spanco Ace Trolley Hoists Featuring 24-Hour Emergency Service CAPCO CRANE & HOIST INC. 58 Forest Ridge Drive • Rowley, MA 01969 • www.capcocrane.com 800-422-7261 • 978-948-2998 • 978-948-2294 Fax Phil’s Fabrication specializes in custom and precast step railings as well as custom metal fabrication. Call Phil at 207-457-3936 Today! Website: www.philsfabrication.com E-Mail: phil@philsfabrication.com 76 MAY/JUNE 2008 | PRECAST INC. BOOTH 1002 http://www.philsfabrication.com http://www.capcocrane.com http://www.capcocrane.com http://www.datacollections.com http://www.philsfabrication.com http://www.datacollections.com
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