Prepared with an eye toward new green building rating system requirements, the Angelus Block Co. Environmental Product Declaration spans a substantial set of 69 individual mix designs for products from seven southern California concrete masonry operations, serving Central Coast to San Diego markets.
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Officials at Titan Concrete announced late last year their company is the first ready mixed producer in the state of Florida and second in the United States to produce environmental product declarations (EPDs) using the Product Category Rules (PCR) of the University of Washington/College of the Built Environment-hosted Carbon Leadership Forum.
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National Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s newest certification program is a Quality Management System (QMS) aligned with ISO 9000 standards and suited to ready mixed producers aiming to supplant prescriptive concrete specifications with performance-based alternatives.
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A Mack Granite Axle Forward model mounted with a McNeilus 11-yd. Bridgemaster mixer is the centerpiece of the 2014 Concrete Industry Management Program auction, to be staged this month during World of Concrete at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Read MoreSources: National Right to Work Foundation, Springfield, Va.; CP staff
A deadline has passed for the National Labor Relations Board to file petitions at the U.S. Supreme Court to review two federal appellate court decisions striking down a proposed rule requiring private-workplace display of an 11- x 17-in. poster detailing employees’ union-organizing rights.
Read MoreSources: CP staff; Fidelity Investments
In what was hailed as the best year for the U.S. stock market since in the mid-1990s—the Dow up 26.5 percent, the S&P 500 up 29.6 percent over 2012—shares of the seven major concrete, cement and aggregate companies climbed an average of 19.20 percent in 2013.
Read MoreSources: National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, D.C.; CP staff
More than three quarters of respondents to a survey of small, medium and large manufacturers identified rising health care and insurance costs as their primary challenge of 2013.
Read MoreSources: Saint-Gobain, Paris; CP staff
Saint-Gobain anticipates a first quarter 2014 closing on the sale of its Roaring River, N.C., Terre Haute, Ind., and White City, Ore., fiber cement siding facilities to Alpharetta, Ga.-based Plycem USA Inc., which distributes fiber cement trim sourced from a Costa Rica plant.
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Ready Mixed Concrete Association of Ontario’s Pavement Design Assistance Program (PDAP) provides public and private sector project engineers and consultants comprehensive proposals for an equivalent, comparable concrete pavement alternative for street and road or parking lot contracts carrying asphalt specifications.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing draft guidelines that will help the federal government buy greener and safer products. In response to broad stakeholder interest, it is seeking public input on these draft guidelines and a potential approach to assessing non-governmental environmental standards and ecolabels already in the marketplace.
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