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Best Practices Award Application

DEADLINE: Nov. 26, 2025

OPEN TO BOTH PRODUCER AND ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

The NPCA Best Practices Award recognizes industry best practices and improvements that showcase the best way to do a job, treat the environment, save money and more. This award recognizes the precast industry’s best sustainable practices and innovations, including safety and lean manufacturing processes, that improve everyone’s life. This is an opportunity to showcase your innovations and, for NPCA certified plants, your continuous improvements.

ENTRY GUIDELINES

Any industry best practice qualifies for entry. There’s no limit to what constitutes “industry best practice,” but the following are some sustainability- and lean manufacturing-related categories to assist in your application.

New innovations that change plant practices, better the plant production environment or benefit the company in any way should be submitted. We want to recognize you.

Sustainability Categories: Human, Social, Environmental, Economic

Lean Manufacturing Categories: Eliminating Waste, Continuous Improvement, Organization, Safety

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Facilities may submit multiple entries provided they cover a different aspect of the company or job site. Each entry must have been initiated (in the case of a practice) or completed (in the case of a project) within five years of the submittal deadline. Each entry may be submitted a maximum of two times. However, if a submission wins a Best Practices Award upon its first entry, it is no longer eligible. You must be a member of NPCA in good standing at the time of submittal and when the awards are announced.

WINNER SELECTION

Entries will be evaluated with a rubric. Entrants are encouraged to identify best practice categories in addition to sustainability and lean categories listed on the application. What is your plant doing to make internal operations better, reduce your environmental impact, minimize waste, or just to make things better? The Engineering & Technology Committee’s Best Practices Task Force wants to know. Winners will be recognized in NPCA publications through feature articles, blog posts and other public announcements.

DEADLINE: Nov. 26, 2025

OPEN TO BOTH PRODUCER AND ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

The NPCA Best Practices Award recognizes industry best practices and improvements that showcase the best way to do a job, treat the environment, save money and more. This award recognizes the precast industry’s best sustainable practices and innovations, including safety and lean manufacturing processes, that improve everyone’s life. This is an opportunity to showcase your innovations and, for NPCA certified plants, your continuous improvements.

ENTRY GUIDELINES

Any industry best practice qualifies for entry. There’s no limit to what constitutes “industry best practice,” but the following are some sustainability- and lean manufacturing-related categories to assist in your application.

New innovations that change plant practices, better the plant production environment or benefit the company in any way should be submitted. We want to recognize you.

Sustainability Categories: Human, Social, Environmental, Economic

Lean Manufacturing Categories: Eliminating Waste, Continuous Improvement, Organization, Safety

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Facilities may submit multiple entries provided they cover a different aspect of the company or job site. Each entry must have been initiated (in the case of a practice) or completed (in the case of a project) within five years of the submittal deadline. Each entry may be submitted a maximum of two times. However, if a submission wins a Best Practices Award upon its first entry, it is no longer eligible. You must be a member of NPCA in good standing at the time of submittal and when the awards are announced.

WINNER SELECTION

Entries will be evaluated with a rubric. Entrants are encouraged to identify best practice categories in addition to sustainability and lean categories listed on the application. What is your plant doing to make internal operations better, reduce your environmental impact, minimize waste, or just to make things better? The Engineering & Technology Committee’s Best Practices Task Force wants to know. Winners will be recognized in NPCA publications through feature articles, blog posts and other public announcements.