One of the first steps is to contact TCEL's Membership Director, Michael Hancock and request membership information. His e-mail address is mike@cectexas.org. Please click here for a membership application.

Membership Requirements

It will pay you, beforehand, to make sure that your firm meets the basic eligibility requirements of TCEL.  The membership of this organization is comprised entirely of firms (laboratories) actively engaged in providing construction materials engineering services and/or geotechnical engineering services – firms operating under the  laws of Texas.  Individual staff members of these firms do not become actual TCEL "members" – do not themselves possess membership – but can hold elective office or be appointed to TCEL's various committees, including chairmanship thereof. 

Details as to membership requirements are spelled out in detail in the first four Articles of TCEL's Bylaws, including, in Article IV, a description of the actual process by which applying firms are voted in by TCEL's Executive Board.  A key eligibility requirement is that all geotechnical and/or construction materials testing and inspection services of a TCEL Member Firm must be under the direction and supervision of a professional engineer registered in the State of Texas.

Wherever we use the term "Member Firm" on this web site, we are referring only to "full members" of TCEL.  There is a subcategory of membership, as set forth in the By-Laws (see Article III) which permits out-of-state firms which do not have offices in Texas to become "Associate Members."  Employees of an Associate Member firm cannot hold elective office. Otherwise, eligibility requirements, membership prerogatives and obligations for Associate Member Firms are the same as those set forth in the Bylaws and Constitution for Member Firms.

At present, each TCEL firm is required to pay a one-time initiation fee of $100, with annual membership dues assessed on the basis of $40.00 per engineer, technician, driller, logger, etc. (excluding clerical, bookkeeping, janitorial or similar personnel) – with minimum and maximum annual dues of $200.00 and $2,000.00.