By Grant Lee on 9/8/2010 8:36 AM

Concrete pipe associations have a responsibility to create opportunity for their member firms and their employees to update and expand knowledge of precast concrete drainage products that includes design, quality control, production, testing, handling and installation. Associations also extend these learning opportunities to designers, specifiers, regulators, contractors, teachers and students. At the same time, associations work in many ways to bring knowledge to elected representatives through government relations programs that often include lobbying. Of all the audiences that can take advantage of association-driven education programs, which audiences seem most receptive to knowledge about standards, specifications, design, applications and innovation? Why? Which audiences appear to have little interest in education programs offered by associations?

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