A joint venture formed in late February from longtime south Florida competitors, U.S. Precast Corp. and Florida Rock and Sand Prestress Co., positions the new entity, Medley, Fla.-based United Concrete Products LLC, to offer expanded precast/prestressed girder and pile production. Assimilation of facilities, staff and vendor bases, officials note, along with nearly 100 years of combined industry experience, will help broaden United Concrete’s presence.
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Carolinas Cement permit advances Titan America’s integration ‘Ideal’
Officials from Carolinas Cement Co. in Wilmington, N.C., announced recently that parent company Titan America LLC was issued an air quality permit from the Division of Air Quality (DAQ) of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NCDENR) to construct a proposed 2.4 million-tons/year-capacity cement plant in Castle Hayne. The permit issuance comes after four years of technical review of the proposed facility and is a major step toward an integrated North Carolina operation, as Castle Hayne is strategic to the S&W Ready Mix business acquired by Titan in 2007.
Read MoreDallas-Fort Worth Airport parking structure: 3 million sq. ft., 7,700 spaces
DFW International Airport in Irving, Texas, will consolidate three separate parking garages into a single structure known as Terminal A Parking facility. The five-level garage is a key component of the Terminal Renewal and Improvement Program (TRIP), a seven-year, $1.9 billion effort to upgrade four original terminals, which date to 1974.
Read MoreOldcastle pinpoints fast-track solution for Internet provider’s satellite infrastructure
Oldcastle Precast completed a major Satellite Uplink Collocation Tier 2 facility located in North Platte, Neb. The project was a turnkey design-build facility constructed for Pinpoint Communications, as well as designed to meet the collocation needs of a major satellite internet provider.
Read MoreBesser technology nets operators real-time plant optimization
Besser Co. and Pittsburgh-based cloud-computing specialist IQity Solutions LLC have announced Besser Connector, a technology platform to maximize efficiency and returns by enabling manufactured-concrete producers to proactively manage operations throughout a day’s schedule.
Read MoreCongressional leaders join Rally for Roads
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Rep. John Mica (R-FL) and Democratic Chief Deputy Whip Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) were among 10 bipartisan members of Congress who convened with transportation construction interests at the second annual Rally for Roads: Make Transportation Job #1 in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreLaborers’ prod GOP leaders on highway bill
A multi-media campaign from the union representing plant and jobsite workers across the transportation infrastructure value chain spotlights the public safety crisis crumbling bridges, deteriorating roads and struggling transit systems pose. The Laborers’ International Union of North America undertaking is especially targeted at voters positioned to prod U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) into supporting a long-term highway bill that protects investment in transportation systems.
Read MoreRomney merits ABC nod
In perhaps the first such move this campaign season by a major national construction group, Associated Builders and Contractors endorsed Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Read MoreUnions cheer Court’s PLA Stance
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Detroit, has struck down the state’s “Fair and Open Competition in Governmental Construction Act” (Public Act 98) curtailing local government units’ ability to exercise project labor agreements (PLAs) on construction contracts.
Read MoreHUD releases disaster-proofing building guide
Consulting firm Newport Partners in Davidson, Md., recently announced the initial results of a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded research project, Safer, Stronger Homes: Protecting Your Risk During a Natural Disaster. The project team created a how-to guide of simple, low-cost mitigation strategies for both builders and homebuyers alike to improve their home performance during natural disasters.
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