Lightweight-aggregate producer Northeast Solite is licensing production of a concrete masonry unit whose exterior and interior designs offer energy efficiency and labor-saving attributes
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Mit Grad Students Bag $100K Entrepreneurship Prize For Carbon-Wise ‘C-Crete’
A proposed aggregate-binding agent that reportedly imparts higher strength characteristics in concrete, and whose production might yield half the carbon dioxide emissions of portland cement, has earned its developers a $100,000 business start-up grant.
Read MoreNaacp Cincinnati Challenges Cement, Concrete Supplier In Sbe Program
Citing terms of the Cincinnati Small Business Enterprise Program, City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. is defending validity of a contract awarded to a firm acting as a cement and ready mixed concrete distributor on a major public/private development
Read MoreAppellate Court Concurs On Antitrust Case Ruling In Favor Of Oldcastle Precast
A three-member Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel has affirmed a federal court’s antitrust case finding that plaintiff’s counsel failed to show how defendants Oldcastle Precast Inc. and three AT&T affiliates harmed competition in California and Nevada telephone vault markets and brought antitrust injury
Read MoreAppellate Court Concurs On Antitrust Case Ruling In Favor Of Oldcastle Precast
A three-member Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel has affirmed a federal court’s antitrust case finding that plaintiff’s counsel failed to show how defendants Oldcastle Precast Inc. and three AT&T affiliates harmed competition in California and Nevada telephone vault markets and brought antitrust injury
Read MoreTilt-Up Wall, Solar-Powered Radiant Heating Specialists Form Partnership
Renewable Solutions Distribution will set up a 20,000-sq.-ft. shop this summer in the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit, aiming to promote solar-powered radiant heating systems embedded in tilt-up concrete walls, along with established clean energy solutions for commercial and residential customers
Read MoreTilt-Up Wall, Solar-Powered Radiant Heating Specialists Form Partnership
Renewable Solutions Distribution will set up a 20,000-sq.-ft. shop this summer in the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit, aiming to promote solar-powered radiant heating systems embedded in tilt-up concrete walls, along with established clean energy solutions for commercial and residential customers
Read MoreRenowned Cement Chemist Jennings To Head Concrete Sustainability Hub
Northwestern University Professor Hamlin Jennings will join the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSH) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, as inaugural executive director, serving also as MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering adjunct professor
Read MoreRenowned Cement Chemist Jennings To Head Concrete Sustainability Hub
Northwestern University Professor Hamlin Jennings will join the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSH) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, as inaugural executive director, serving also as MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering adjunct professor
Read MoreEpa Proposes Sweeping Rule For Nonconstruction-Grade Coal Ash
EPA officials are set to open a 90-day public comment period for proposed rules that address disposal and management of coal-fired power plants’ ash and residue, while exempting higher-grade, lower-carbon fly ash suited to concrete mix designs, cement mill feed, and wallboard production
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