The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) has announced the election of three board members and the slate of officers for the 2002 year. Phil Kopf, president of the Kopf Consulting Group, Inc., was elected president of the TCA Board at its annual meeting on Jan. 11. Kopf has served on the Board since 1994 and this is second term as president.
Glen Stephens of Stephens Aylward & Associates of Charlotte, N.C. was elected vice president; Bob Truitt, retired Dayton-Richmond sales manager, will serve as Secretary/Treasurer; and Sherman Balch, president of Balch Enterprises, will serve as past president.
Clayton Fischer, founder and president of Woodland Construction Co., Inc. in Jupiter, Fla., was elected to the board for a three-year term. Founded in 1988, Woodland has about 170 employees and has constructed more than 16 million square feet of concrete buildings - to include greater than 80,000 tilt-up panels. Fischer also is a member of The American Society of Concrete Contractors, ACI, ABC, and ASA.
Al Engelman, Chief Executive Officer of Engelman Construction, Inc., of Macungie, Pa., and Eduardo Trueba Buenfil, president of IIRISA of Mexico City, Mexico, were both re-elected for a three-year term. Engelman Construction, founded in 1985, constructs large-scale warehouses and other buildings for industry. Specializing in super flat floors and tilt-up concrete wall panels, Engelman serves a variety of clients throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey. A civil engineering graduate from the University of Detroit, Engelman is a Registered Professional Engineer and also owns Engelman Engineering Enterprises and Bethlehem Pre-Cast, Inc. He is a member of many other construction and community associations including ASCC, ACI, ASTM, ABC, and the NPCA.
Trueba Buenfil, a civil engineering graduate from Mexico University, is a contractor in the Mexico City area. The firm has designed and constructed multi-national industrial, recreational, and housing facilities since 1960. IIRISA’s first tilt-up structure was constructed in 1991 and the company now employs the method for 90-percent of their workload.
Engelman and Trueba Buenfil continue their service with existing board members Glen Stephens of Stephens Aylward & Associates of Charlotte, N.C.; Bob Truitt, retired from Dayton-Richmond; Sherman Balch of Balch Enterprises; Shawn Hickey of SiteCast Construction Corp.; Michael Sugrue of CON/STEEL Tilt-Up Systems; and Dave Kelly of Meadow-Burke.