EXHIBIT 99.1

               STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                        REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES
                        RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, David H. Dingus, state and attest that:


(1)   To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of
      AZZ incorporated, and except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent
      covered report:

..     No covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of
      the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report
      on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was
      filed); and

..     No covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the
      statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under
      which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered
      by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy
      materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2)   I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit
      committee.

(3)   In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before
      the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

..     Form 10-K of AZZ incorporated filed on May 24, 2002.

..     All reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy
      materials of AZZ incorporated filed with the Commission subsequent to the
      filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

..     Any amendments to any of the foregoing.

DATED October 10, 2002.


                                           /s/ David H. Dingus
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                                   David H. Dingus, Chief Executive Officer


Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of October, 2002.



                                           /s/ Michelle Scott
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                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas