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Green Concrete Council Maps Plan
The U.S. Green Concrete Council announced in Las Vegas a first-of-its-kind resource, The Sustainable Concrete Guide Strategies and Examples. The comprehensive...
Groups unify sustainability message
Timed with the World of Concrete opening, the Concrete Joint Sustainability Initiative unveiled its 2010 goals and initiatives to align sustainable development...
National Precast Concrete Association
CHAIRMAN 2010 J. KIRBY O'MALLEYPresidentGarden State Precast, Inc.Farmingdale, New Jersey IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRMAN (2009) RANDY LINDSAY-BRISBINV.P. and...
Stand - and Deliver
Boosting the education of precast industry workers is a major goal for J. Kirby O'Malley. One of the ways I want to give back is by working to increase...
Precast fence bordering multi-use complex satisfies multiple demands
Visible from Ventura Boulevard is a precast barrier in Mesa Buff, Calif., that stands as a vivid example of Artisan Precast's specialty fencing solution...
Precast box culverts impound LEED credits
Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center enlisted Hanson Pipe & Precast in its pursuit of U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental...
Sustainability parks in Chicago garage
Incorporating elements unheard of for parking garages, developer Friedman Properties recently opened an 11-story structure in the (downtown-bordering)...
Hanson pipe & precast drainage components redirect rainfall
A feature contributing substantially to LEED certification for UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas was an underground detention system enabling capture...
Garden State precast
Supplying utility contractors statewide, Farmingdale, N.J.-based Garden State Precast, Inc., produces manholes, lift stations, catch basins, utility vaults,...
Harrington heads Lehigh Hanson
Effective this month, Lehigh Hanson Inc. Chief Operating Officer Daniel Harrington succeeds CEO James Kitzmiller, who is retiring after nearly 40 years...
Jim Kitzmiller: From Gifford Hill To Lehigh Hanson
The January 2010 Lehigh Hanson Inc. management transition sees the retirement of one of the industry's key dealmakers of the past two decades following...
DEALS OF THE DECADE
In a follow-up to the December 2009 Decade Defined editorial, Concrete Products tracks nine-figure and higher deals that have reshaped North...
Beating The Freeze
Just before Christmas 2008, Hanson Pipe & Precast was contacted by contractor/engineer Nick Homerding of Anchorage, Alaska-based Enterprise Engineering,...
A Decade Defined
To close out this column's first decade, 10 familiar companies, projects and market developments distinguishing concrete production & practice from 2000-2009:...
Report Spells OSHA Audit Overhauls
After a 14-month audit of Occupational Safety & Health Administration workplace injury and illness data collection and reporting methods, the Government...
Mixer Systems @ 30
Throughout 2009, Pewaukee, Wis.-based Mixer Systems, Inc., has observed three decades as a manufacturer that supports vintage concrete equipment brands...
Hawkeyepedershaab Machines New Equipment
With an eye to the 2010 Precast Show (February, Phoenix) and Bauma (April, Munich), HawkeyePedershaab has added product and cage fabrication machinery....
Ex-Oldcastle Chief Tom Hill
After leaving the industry in July 2008, longtime Oldcastle Inc. and CRH Americas executive Tom Hill actually did manage to take some well-earned time...
Evolving RFID System Key to Quality, Inventory Control
According to Greg Stratis, Amesbury plant manager, E.F. Shea Concrete Products not only has been using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems from...
Quick cure
Ron Mulligan of Basalite Concrete Products, LLC represents a company that is one of a small (only 5 percent), yet growing number industrywide of precasters...
