Precaster Tindall announces the completion of a new 582-unit Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Miss., replacing one severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and demolished in late 2007
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Tindall Engineers Gulf Coast’s First Structure Equal To 200-Mph Hurricane Forces
Precaster Tindall announces the completion of a new 582-unit Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Miss., replacing one severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and demolished in late 2007
Read MoreOldcastle Precast Supplies Tanks For First Biomass-Derived Energy Facility
As part of an effort to erect what is described as the first-of-its-kind, wastewater-to-renewable-energy project, Oldcastle Precast has supplied wastewater holding tanks to Algaewheel Technologies’ facility in Reynolds, Ind
Read MoreNorth Carolina’s Foltz Ushers Hdpe Pipe Giant Ads Into Concrete
The world’s largest HDPE pipe producer, ADS recently closed on Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Foltz Concrete Pipe Co. LLC, indicating it would be the first of similar acquisitions as 2010 unfolds
Read More51-Year Spancrete Veteran Dugan Set To Retire
Spancrete CEO John Nagy has announced the retirement of Spancrete Machinery Corp. Vice President Joseph T. Dugan, effective May 7
Read MoreDailey Precast Delivers Premier Next (Northeast Extreme Tee) Beam Order
Dailey Precast is preparing to ship 28 girders for the Maine Rt. 103/York River crossing, the first structure to be built with the PCI Northeast Bridge Technical Committee’s NEXT Beam design
Read MoreSustainable Cement, Concrete Rise On Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Radar
Following the late-2009 Concrete Sustainability Hub opening at the MIT Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, the university’s Technology Review has ranked a magnesium-based cement among 2010 Top 10 Emerging Technologies
Read MoreFred Weber Feeds Record, 3-Million Yd. Roller Compacted Concrete Structure
A rebuilt, billion-gallon capacity reservoir, harboring North America’s largest roller compacted concrete placement to date, has allowed Ameren UE to reactivate the 440-mw Taum Sauk Pump Storage Plant
Read MoreAci Releases 2010 Manual Of Concrete Practice
Available in six-volume hard copy ($799.50, ACI members $499), CD-ROM ($681.50, $409 members), or a combined package ($1185.50, $711), ACI’s benchmark publication spans 190 documents and committee reports on cast-in-place or precast concrete buildings, pavements, transportation structures and specialty applications
Read MoreVolumetric Operator All County Embarks To Liberty Island
All County Mobile Concrete is supplying 3- to 6-yd. loads on tight schedules for new visitors’ center areas at the 12-acre Liberty Island in New York Harbor
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