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knowledge and experience,
coupled with Larry's Hispanic
heritage, allowed us to organize
as a minority-owned company and helped accelerate our
business's growth. The timing
was right because in the late
1980s massive freeway systems
were built in the metropolitan
Phoenix area. Relying on state
and federal funding, every one
of those projects required that a
minority-owned business work
on the contracts, so we were
grateful to be highly successful
without needing formal sales or
marketing initiatives.
Our services expanded to
include land surveying and utili-

ty relocations for the massive
highway projects. This past
July marked PEC's 35th year in
business, and we have grown to
more than 80 employees with
offices across the Western United States.

Trenchless and
NASSCO
I first learned about NASSCO
when we started using trenchless technologies in Phoenix,
and realized NASSCO had the
knowledge and resources we
needed to do the work correctly. We did our first CIPP
small-diameter job in 1996 for
the city of Phoenix. The city

was also starting to do some
large-diameter condition assessment work, so in order to
compete we needed someone to
help us with those projects. We
hired the city's project manager,
Bob Webb, to manage inspection services for PEC.
In 2001 we hired another
NASSCO member company,
Pro Pipe, to do the assessment
work, and have been with it
ever since. Dean Monk and
Mark Metcalfe (who has since
retired from Pro Pipe and is a
past president of NASSCO's
Board of Directors) are just allaround, good people and share
our commitment to excellence.

If we have any type of problem
with a video, for example, they
re-do it without question and
never charge extra, because
it's just the right thing to do. I
think that goes for most NASSCO members. We all want to
see our industry grow, and do
whatever it takes to support
one another.
Also, in the early 2000s Bob
had learned about NASSCO's
PACP from John Jurgens, who
is still training PACP today. I
took time to learn more about
the program and received my
PACP certification from Rod
Thornhill in 2002, the year the
program was launched. I imme-

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