FHWA Resource Center
STRUCTURES TEAM
Prestressed Concrete Committee for
June 25, 2002
Economic Fabrication (PCEF)
Minutes of April 4, 2002 Meeting
Baltimore, Maryland
PCEF Committee Members
Attached for your information is a copy of the attendance list and
minutes for the subject meeting, held on April 4, 2002 at the Clarion Hotel in
West Atlantic City, New Jersey. Also attached are copies of the updated full
committee and subcommittee membership lists. Individuals wishing to have their
name removed from any of the lists are asked to notify our office as soon as
possible.
We wish to thank Mr. Jose Lopez of the New Jersey Department of
Transportation for his outstanding job of taking and completing the minutes, and
for transmitting them to our office within a week after the meeting. We also
thank him for distributing hard copies of the minutes and attachments to
appropriate individuals. Hard copies will be mailed to
appropriate individuals with a ** designation who do not have an electronic
mailing address. Individuals receiving the materials either by hard copy or
electronically are asked to distribute them in a timely manner to others in
their office on the mailing list.
Our appreciation is also extended to the Subcommittee chairmen, to
the presenters, and to all attendees for their active participation in the
meeting. Continued status reports will be requested from each chairman at the
next meeting.
The attached minutes are supplemented as follows:
Production/Construction
Based on the lack of a volunteer to chair this subcommittee, and
on the discussion at the last meeting, we believe it is in the best interest of
the PCEF to combine this group with the Materials and QC/QA Subcommittee. Per
the meeting minutes, future items for standardization to be addressed by the
combined subcommittee include: inspection criteria, and beam handling, storage
and erection issues.
Materials and QC/QA
Per the meeting minutes, an updated ballot will be distributed to
appropriate State DOT contact personnel for formal voting later this summer.
Also attached to this transmittal is a copy of the minutes from this
subcommittees May 29th meeting, outlining discussions on finalizing
the Materials Guide Specification, future development of a QC/QA Guide
Specification, and various new business items.
Standardization
The newly adopted standard drawings for steel intermediate
diaphragms and for diaphragm layout will be combined with the PCEF Bulb-T shapes
into a PCEF Standards Book in the future.
Design Parameters
Based on the lack of a volunteer to chair this subcommittee, and
on the discussion at the last meeting, we believe it is in the best interest of
the PCEF to combine this group with the Standardization Subcommittee. According
to discussions at previous meetings, there are at least a half dozen issues that
can be addressed by the combined subcommittee towards region-wide
uniformity.
Next Meeting
We have tentatively set the next meeting for Thursday, February
13, 2003, at 1:00 PM, at the Holiday Inn in Charleston, West Virginia. This
would come immediately after the annual Mid-Atlantic States Quality Assurance
Workshop, to be held at the same location. In the interim, our two working
subcommittees are requested to convene in order to advance their respective
issues for meaningful discussion at the next full PCEF meeting.
Once again, we thank the membership and their management for the
support of this Committees activities. Please feel free to submit any agenda
topics to our office by January 1, 2003.
Original signed by,
Attachments Louis N. Triandafilou
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