The American Concrete Institute and the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute will expand their partnership to collaborate more closely on structural concrete code requirements.
The two organizations and their members have worked collaboratively for decades, and this strengthened partnership formalizes efforts and expands the American Concrete Institute’s Committee 319, Precast Structural Concrete Code, into a joint committee cosponsored by both entities. ACI-PCI Committee 319 will develop and maintain structural concrete code requirements both unique to the design of precast concrete and complementary to ACI 318, “Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete.”
“Establishing this joint committee meets the needs of both PCI and ACI members by incorporating specific precast concrete design knowledge and expertise from both organizations,” said Bob Risser, PE, president and CEO, Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, in a news release. “Creating this new document will allow the codification of information that is already used by engineers and architects in everyday practice as well as providing one comprehensive document for the design of structural precast concrete.”
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