Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District’s (MSD) $21.2 million Lemay Wastewater Treatment Plant disinfection facility included construction of a cutting-edge ultraviolet wastewater disinfection system utilizing 3,600 individual UV bulbs and with daily treatment capacity of 240 million gallons of effluent per day—one of the largest such facilities to date.
Mindful of the Lehigh Valley’s deep roots in portland cement milling, project principals did not need to labor over the material of choice to support and clad the new Easton City Hall and Transportation Center, rising in the fittingly named eastern Pennsylvania town of 27,000.
Located in Uvalde, Texas, the Willie De Leon Civic Center recently experienced a major renovation, whose final result is a strong statement for fiber cement panels beyond the residential siding market. The civic center was originally built in 1968, as a tribute to the area’s most decorated soldier, who earned a Purple Heart during World War II.
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Ohio ready mixed, aggregate, concrete masonry and precast producer R.W. Sidley Inc. recently developed a lean, aesthetic alternative to armor-type block synonymous with returned concrete mixes and aggregate stockpile containment.
Hundreds of thousands of visitors to Sochi will test an impressive interlocking concrete paving stone installation serving the two main venues of the Russia-hosted 2014 Winter Olympic games.
