Maschmeyer Concrete has strengthened its role as a leading Sunshine State independent producer through the purchase of Inland Materials and Inland Block and Supply
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Astm Set To Release Pervious Concrete Test Standard
ASTM has begun offering the recently finalized C1701/C1701M–09 Standard Test Method for Infiltration Rate of In Place Pervious Concrete online, following the 2008 release of ASTM C1688 Standard Test Method for Density and Void Content of Freshly Mixed Pervious Concrete
Read MoreHeavy Equipment Veteran Joins Spancrete Group As Vice President, Coo
Assigned a strategic role in the company’s growth and continued success, Alan Antoniewicz has been appointed Spancrete Group vice president and chief operating officer
Read MoreAgc Challenges Administration’s Project Labor Agreement Affinity
AGC is asking the U.S. Department of Labor to justify its requirement of a project labor agreement (PLA) for a $10 million Job Corps Center in Manchester, N.H., contending the decision effectively shuts out a majority of local contractors
Read MoreAbc Members Flood Administration With Comments Opposing Pla Order
As of late September, 402 ABC member companies, plus 504 of their employees, submitted comments to the White House opposing implementation of President Obama’s Executive Order 13502, encouraging agencies to consider union-only project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction contracts exceeding $25 million
Read MoreAci Forms Building Information Modeling Technical Committee
To ensure concrete keeps pace with steel in an increasingly common technology platform among architectural, engineering and construction professionals, ACI has scheduled the inaugural Building Information Modeling (BIM) of Concrete Structures Technical Committee 131 meeting during the Fall 2009 Convention Nov. 8–12 in New Orleans.
Read MoreU.S. Concrete Exits California Capital’s Rm Business
U.S. Concrete has sold its four Sacramento, Calif., ready-mixed plants to Woodland, Calif.-based Syar Concrete, LLC in a transaction of approximately $6 million
Read MoreDissident Txi Shareholder Faction Gains Momentum With Top Investor’s Support
With Texas Industries, Inc.’s annual meeting one month away in Dallas, the company’s third-largest shareholder (representing a 10.2 percent stake), SAVF, has gained a major new supporter in its efforts to shake up the nine-member TXI board
Read MoreEagle Materials Names Three Executives To Finance, Strategy Posts
Cement, aggregate, ready mixed and wallboard producer Eagle Materials recently named Craig Kesler executive vice president, Finance and Administration and CFO
Read MoreBritish Precast Veteran Loads Key2Concrete.Com
A new online information center for precast specifiers and users provides document downloads covering Connections & Fittings, Environment, Joints & Interfaces, and Lifting & Transportation
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