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INSERT (Local Member or State Association) LOGO!
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Insert local association
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2. Why are we here? Introduce Our Companies and Our Association2
Why are we here?
Introduce Our Companies and Our Association
Our Industries Importance to your Community & State Economy
Explain why Reinforced Concrete Pipe (RCP) the BEST choice for your community

3. WHO ARE WE (insert your own info below)
The Florida Concrete Pipe Industry
PRODUCERS OF RCP = 13 Production Facilities across the State of FLORIDA
CEMEX
Hanson Pipe and Precast
Rinker Materials – Concrete Pipe Div.
U. S. Concrete Pipe, Inc.
Tri-County Concrete
Associate Members (Supply Products and Services)
Besser, Eastern Portland Cement, Florida Crushed Stone, Hamilton Kent, Insteel Wire, Ivy Steel & Wire, Hawkeye

4. We Are In or Near Your Community?
NOTE- Insert/Attach Map of Florida with location of all 13 production facilities highlighted!

5. Contact Us! Florida Concrete Pipe Institute
3030 Dade Avenue, Orlando, FL 32804
American Concrete Pipe Association

6. Economic Health of Your Community is Important to US!
Reinforced concrete pipe utilizes local raw materials.
It is manufactured and transported by people that most likely live and pay taxes in the community served by the concrete pipe facility.
Incomes generated by a concrete pipe facility tend to support other community services and businesses that benefit from the overall legacy of high performance local storm sewers.
The economic health of a community is an important and correct consideration that policy makers, engineers and designers must weigh when specifying storm sewer materials and products.

7. RCP Industry Economic Impact
Plants in 13 Cities/Counties
Over 1,700 Families Represented by our Employees
An additional 1,000 residents employed by other suppliers and support facilities that serve our facilities

8. Impact
Our Raw Materials – Rock, Sand, Cement, are provided by other FLORIDA Companies,
We support local companies that provide other services, goods, and transport materials to and from our facilities
Estimated Economic Impact to the State of Florida = $300,000,000/Year
Our Companies and Employees Pay Taxes = We directly contribute working capital to the cities, counties and to the state of Florida

9. Why is RCP Best Choice for Your Community?
A Common Sense Approach to Pipe Material Selection

10. Important Considerations
What do I need a buried pipe system to do?
Can the product meet all needs?
Can the product be installed correctly with a limited amount of inspection?
Is it safe for the end user? (Low liability & risk to owner –(city, county, state)
Asset management consideration -will this asset hold its values and not contribute to other asset maintenance or pre-mature failures?
Will our standards set the bar high and instill confidence of the tax-payer?

11. Conduit What do you need a pipe to do? Buried Pipe Structure

12. RCP Meets the Needs Structure Conduit Concrete Pipe

13. ? ? Conduit Flexible Pipe Structure By Low Bidder

14. Structure Confirmed before Shipment
60” RCP is tested before it leaves the point of manufacture to prove it can carry the load of a loaded tractor and trailer with no lateral support
This fact and proven service life should give you clear understanding of differences of RCP vs. flexible pipe.

15. Pipe Different Means Installation Must be Different

16. COMMON SENSE?
RCP structure built & confirmed before arriving at job site
Flexible pipe structure built at job site
What does that mean with respect to required inspection?

17. Inspection During Construction
During Install
Flexible Pipe = confirm design calcs + Firm Foundation + Homed joints + Structure/Design must be confirmed IN FIELD by compaction testing of pipe envelope material (the structure)
RCP = check class matches plan design (structure confirmed at plant 3EB) + Firm Foundation + Joints in home position before backfill placed
Backfill for flexible pipe = Structural Integrity of the flexible pipe system!

18. Post Installation Inspection
Flexible check deflection 100% of pipe (over deflection will lead to failure)
Suggest L/V for 30” and smaller
Rigid visual inspect 100%
Video 30” and smaller
We are not concerned about critical inspection of our product

19. Safety RCP = Structural failures are very rare
CMP = Loss of pipe wall due to rust, will lead to failures
Plastic = structural failures are common
Health of installed HDPE in KY, OH, and TX reports available

20. Asset Management
LOWEST LIFETIME COSTS = Proven Useable Life + low maintenance + low repair or rehabilitation cost + low risk of unexpected failure
RCP – PROVEN 100 YR Service Life
RCP if installed properly = No Maintenance Cost
If RCP Damaged during construction or in future most repairs can be made in pipe wall without replacing pipe
RCP = Lowest Risk of unanticipated failure

21. Set The Bar High!
Future generations deserve the best effort by today’s decision makers, so they are not burdened with the cost of our country’s current appetite for fast, easy, and cheap goods and services. It is the combined duty and effort of our policy makers, consulting engineers, and engineers serving our municipalities and state governments to provide the strongest, longest-lasting, and most cost-effective infrastructure in the world.
Providing good pipe selection criteria, specifications, and technical installation details do no harm to anyone as long as all are made to follow same rules.
The desire for developers to work and develop properties in your community is much more about people (their customers) wanting to live and be part of your community than about how cheap they can develop their property.

22. Quote -
It is unwise to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.
The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot-it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run. And, if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.
JOHN RUSKIN , renowned English critic, social commentator, and economist of the Victorian Age