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included maintaining and improving high standards of workmanship, developing
and maintaining helpful relationships with customers, maintaining the highest
ethical and technical standards and using research and practical experiences to
help create a larger market for concrete pavements. Five decades later, these
guiding principles remain ACPA's priorities today.
“We represent every constituent organization or group – stakeholders if you will –
of the concrete pavement industry,” said Bill Davenport, the association's vice
president of communications. “Each of our constituent groups have different
needs, and at times, different priorities, but everything we do quite simply relates
to those four founding principles.”
Business World recently chatted with Davenport to discuss the association's
operations, its top-of-agenda priorities and its forecasts for the future.
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Throughout its more than five decades in business,
ACPA staff, members, affiliates, and allies, have developed
new technologies, including the “Next Generation Concrete
Surface,” which addresses tire/pavement noise issues.
(Photo courtesy of Matt Zeller, P.E.)
