Tom D'arcy Semi-Retires
Tom D’Arcy Semi-Retires After “A Great 40 Years” In addition to his enormous technical contributions to PCI and the industry, Tom D’Arcy has found the time to live a life of adventure and many interests. At the PCI Convention in Orlando, Florida, this fall, Tom will be awarded the Medal of Honor — PCI’s most prestigious award for exceptionally outstanding contributions to the industry and Institute. homas J. D’Arcy, principal in Working with Pete was exciting be the firm of The Consulting En cause of Pete’s imaginative engineer Tgineers Group, Inc., and ing mind. Under his tutelage, the con founder and president of CEG, San cept of combining pretensioned Antonio, Texas, is going into semi concrete with post-tensioning resulted retirement after four decades of stellar in the construction of the state-of-the- service to the engineering profession art 32-story Gulf Life Office Building and PCI. in Jacksonville, Florida. However, aside from his consulting White-acid-etched concrete beams, work and committee activities, the columns, and segments up to 20 ft (6.1 Tom D’Arcy many PCI members do m) long were shipped to the site where not see is a true romantic with a pas they were erected and supported by sion for his many loves, which include shoring. They were then post-ten his wife, family, friends, sports, cook sioned together to achieve a 150 ft ing, and music. A native of Chicago, (45.7 m) beam with a 50 ft (15.2 m) Illinois, Tom obtained his bachelor’s center span and two 50 ft (15.2 m) degree in civil engineering (structures) cantilevers.
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