Submitted by Leah Gunther on Wed, 08/13/2025 - 11:02am
Last updated on Wed, 08/13/2025 - 7:01pm
Upcoming ACPA Concrete Pump Operator Safety Seminars in areas of St. Louis, Milwaukee, Atlanta & Pittsburgh. Visit link for more details and registration opportunities: https://tinyurl.com/2025ACPASafetySeminars
The ACPA is dedicated to the education and promotion of concrete pump safety to the concrete pumping industry and for all those who come into contact with a concrete pump on a construction job. We're here to teach you how you, and others around you, can stay safer on the job.
Our instructors have over 50 years of combined concrete pumping experience.
The ACPA is dedicated to the education and promotion of concrete pump safety to the concrete pumping industry and for all those who come into contact with a concrete pump on a construction job. We're here to teach you how you, and others around you, can stay safer on the job.
Our instructors have over 50 years of combined concrete pumping experience.
The following Operator Safety Seminars are scheduled for 2025:
The ACPA is dedicated to the education and promotion of concrete pump safety to the concrete pumping industry and for all those who come into contact with a concrete pump on a construction job. We're here to teach you how you, and others around you, can stay safer on the job.
Our instructors have over 50 years of combined concrete pumping experience.
The ACPA is dedicated to the education and promotion of concrete pump safety to the concrete pumping industry and for all those who come into contact with a concrete pump on a construction job. We're here to teach you how you, and others around you, can stay safer on the job.
Our instructors have over 50 years of combined concrete pumping experience.
The ACPA is dedicated to the education and promotion of concrete pump safety to the concrete pumping industry and for all those who come into contact with a concrete pump on a construction job. We're here to teach you how you, and others around you, can stay safer on the job.
Our instructors have over 50 years of combined concrete pumping experience.
The ASCC is deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Dr. Ward R. Malisch, who died on Sunday, May 18, 2025, in Lebanon, Tennessee, after a courageous battle with cancer. A brilliant engineer, respected educator and dedicated servant to the concrete construction industry, Ward was a valued member of the ASCC family whose contributions left a lasting mark on our organization and membership.
Portland Cement Association, the national association representing U.S. cement manu-facturers since 1916, announced it is changing its name to the American Cement Association (ACA). President and CEO Mike Ireland shared the news in Birmingham, Alabama, during the 67th IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Conference.
Nearly 1,200 cement industry profession-als from around the world attended the event, which is hailed as the cement and concrete industry’s premier annual conference. The association will begin launching the new brand identity in June 2025.
Air Pump USA is marking two major milestones this year: 10 years under its current ownership, and 15 years as a proud member of the American Concrete Pumping Association (ACPA).
DY Concrete Pumps celebrated a major milestone this summer, marking 10 years of business in North America with an unforgettable anniversary event at the company’s Texas headquarters. The “DY 10-Year Anniversary Pump Rodeo and Roundup” welcomed customers, families, friends and industry partners for a full day of celebration, competition and connection.
Every three years, the construction world meets in Munich, Germany, and throws the world’s largest heavy machinery tradeshow. Here, more than 600,000 visitors from over 200 countries walk among 3,600 of the industry’s biggest names and brightest innovators. It’s become more than a trade show. It’s a global showcase of what’s next: new machines, new ideas, and a new vision for how we build the world.
Activity in Washington continues at an unprecedented pace across all three branches of the federal government. The White House continues to drive its aggressive agenda, testing the law and established norms in many sectors. The courts have both slowed and cleared the administration’s actions, in some cases temporarily on procedural grounds; in other cases, on substantive grounds.
In this article, we explore the technical and financial impacts of optimizing concrete mix design for pumpability in construction projects. We offer key insights, such as the importance of achieving an optimal aggregate gradation to minimize pump pressure, balancing paste volume within a well-graded granular skeleton, and managing risks like segregation and excessive concrete pump pressures. Proper mix design not only reduces issues like line clogging, but also ensures smoother operations, better efficiency and cost savings. By understanding and leveraging these strategies, concrete pumping professionals can achieve regulatory compliance, reduce project costs and enhance the durability of their work, solidifying their competitive edge in the industry. The graphic below offers a quick overview of paste content relative to pumping pressure and cost.
For concrete pumping business owners grappling with the challenges of a hard insurance market, adopting best-in-class safety practices can be a game-changer. In the Concrete Pumping Fall 2024 issue, “Navigating Rising Insurance Costs in a Hard Market,” we explored the challenging landscape of the current insurance market, where insurance providers have tightened their underwriting criteria and pumpers are subsequently facing soaring premiums and restricted coverage. This scenario is driven by factors like inflation and increased auto accident costs, catastrophic weather events, regulatory impacts and nuclear verdicts in which juries issue damage awards of more than $10 million.
An unfortunate truth is that incidents happen, especially in construction. Despite rigorous safety measures, job site hazards can lead to injuries and temporarily sideline valuable employees. While adopting best-in-class safety practices remains essential to minimize risk, what happens after an incident is equally critical. As employers, concrete pumping companies have a responsibility to anticipate hazards and develop controls to reduce claim frequency and severity.
“There is no such thing as a free lunch, son.” My father said this to me when I was a young boy, as I’m sure many other fathers have said (or a variation thereof) to their children. If my father were alive today, I would counter that he did not know the concrete pumping industry, where we give away many things for free all the time! We give away so much stuff that we consider it normal and don’t think twice about it. In addition to giving away free stuff, we often take on risk and exposure that we shouldn’t. Is it any wonder that the concrete pumping industry is plagued by low margins and poor profitability? I will focus on three items that are often given away or discounted significantly on a regular basis.
World of Concrete 2026 (January 20-22, 2026). World of Concrete is the industry’s only annual international event dedicated to the commercial concrete and masonry construction industries. The American Concrete Pumping Association has been a cosponsor of this even since 1974. When registration opens this Fall, please use the cosponsor CodeA23 to support the ACPA.
