The leading voice for the crushed stone, ready mixed concrete, sand and gravel, and cement industries' community.
PELA is a 10-month hybrid program with online and in-person educational sessions and networking opportunities.
Careers in the Aggregates, Concrete & Cement Industries
The Pennsylvania Aggregates and Concrete Association (PACA) is the industry’s unified voice, representing more than 200 member companies across the state.
Creating a unified and strong voice for our industry.
PACA monitors and analyzes local, state and federal regulations and advocates for a balanced approach by the regulators.
PACA builds a bridge between our members and our partners at PennDOT, and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission along with Pennsylvania’s construction industry to further the use of our materials to the benefit of the commonwealth.
One of the most effective tools in government relations for an industry is a robust advocacy/grassroots strategy.
In the last legislative session, we contributed over $275,000 to our political champions.
November 2025 at Hotel Hershey in Hershey, PA (PACA members only event).
PACA offers comprehensive concrete certification programs for ACI, NRMCA, and PennDOT in the central Pennsylvania area.
Membership has its privileges - most of PACA's events are open to PACA members only.
PACA conducts numerous education and training events during the year.
Choose concrete for your next parking lot project.
Streets built with concrete are built to last, consider concrete for your next project.
Concrete's strong, resilient and the choice for your next building or bridge.
PACA works with the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) to convert your parking lot or building project to concrete without hurting your bottom line.
PACA drives a member-approved strategic plan to increase market share and engages specifiers and owners on the value of concrete in their projects.
This program provides free continuing education to the design and specifying communities. There are currently four courses available, ranging from 30 minutes to 60 minutes focused on the cement, aggregates and concrete industries. You'll receive a certificate of completion once you pass a quiz. The bookmarking feature allows you to leave the course and resume where you left off when you return.
In September of 2008, Industry engaged the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in a conversation regarding consideration of a bridge deck concrete that would be an improvement to the current AAA specification. Two primary focus areas were targeted to improve performance–reduce shrinkage potentional and ehanced permeability characteristics. To accomplish these objectives, Industry undertook the AAAP initiative. AAAP concrete will utilize a reduced cement paste content and require the use of supplementary cementitious materials (SCM). In addition to enhancing performance, a secondary objective was to design a concrete mix that could be readily produced by ready mixed concrete firms across the Commonwealth.
Following the intitial discussions with PennDOT, Industry conducted extensive research into the current practice for High Performance Bridge Deck concrete (HPC). A mix design evaluation program was outlined and research conducted to investigate the performance of AAAP made with representative materials (cement, SCM, aggregates, and admixtures) available across Pennsylvania. Base upon those results, a special provision specification was developed with the assistance of PennDOT. The results of the mix design program were shared with all the PennDOT Engineering Districts and trial field projects were selected. Ten projects were placed from September 2009 thru October 2010. Comparison testing between AAAP and AAA was conducted on each of these projects. Shrinkage potential was evaluated based upon the field test results.
AAAP Concrete Report
Bridge Deck Cracking: Effects on In-Service Performance, Prevention, and Remediation - (PSU 2015)
Causes of Early Cracking in Concrete Bridge Decks - (CP Tech Center 2016)
The program is delivered in one (1) module and it should take approximately 30 minutes to complete. You will receive a certificate of completion once you pass the quiz. The bookmarking feature will allow you to leave the course and resume where you left off when you return.