New Year, New Home Trends

Zillow has unveiled its data-driven predictions for the features and design elements poised to dominate homes in the new year. From the raw appeal of brutalism to cold plunge pools, these emerging trends highlight new post-pandemic pastimes and a nostalgia for past styles. To discern these trends, Zillow looked at nearly 300 home features and design styles mentioned in for-sale…

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CMC Ready Mix deploys first Tecwill batch plant in the U.S.

CMC Ready Mix, a branch of the Construction Materials Company, started its third batch plant in Heber Valley just south of Utah’s prestigious Park City resort in July 2023 to provide concrete year-round for a fast growing, underserved market. “We saw this as our opportunity,” says Taylor Larson, project manager, who joined CMC Ready Mix in 2021. “There was so…

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A brief history of Environmental Product Declarations and the arrival of EPD 3.0

Increasing demand for low carbon concrete, transparency, and digitization are driving a radical transformation in how EPDs are developed and used.  Industry demand for low carbon concrete and the critical need to measure reduced carbon metrics are driving radical change in the concrete industry, which increases monthly with new legislation, investor and commercial demand influencing construction materials production and specifications.…

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Enterprising to the Core

WBE Tec-Crete Transit-Mix holds its own in the Big Apple A work ethic cultivated by a range of duties—filling sand bags to office work—for her father’s New York City ready-mix business, F&M Transit Mix in Jamaica, Queens, more than paid off for Linda Gisonda in adult life. Indeed, she is the sole proprietor of a two-plant operation filling mixer trucks…

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Manufacturers – January 2024

Long-time executives Mike Lawry and Ryan Canfield have acquired the assets of Cincinnati-based Hill and Griffith Co., Grifcote and Cast-O-Magic concrete form release agent supplier, and HG Logistics, third-party transportation services provider. A 32-year veteran of the business who has served as chief operations officer since 2021, Lawry is Hill and Griffith chief executive officer and HG Logistics president. A…

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Organizations – January 2024

National Ready Mixed Concrete Association Senior Vice President, Compliance and Regulatory Affairs Kevin Walgenbach, has been named executive vice president, Operations and Compliance, effective this month. Over a 17-year tenure, he has played a key role in conducting educational training for NRMCA members, including organizing regional seminars and workshops along with the Plant Manager, Safety, Dispatcher and Environmental courses. He…

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Producers – January 2024

U.S. stone, sand & gravel leader Vulcan Materials Co. was recently named one of America’s Most Responsible Companies 2024 by Newsweek, and included in the American Opportunity Index, which measures how well large companies invest in their human talent to drive business performance and individual employee growth. “Our company has an intentional focus on operating The Vulcan Way – doing…

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Brimstone, Sublime Systems executives join TIME100 Climate ranks

TIME USA LLC reporters and editors include in their inaugural TIME100 Climate list two officials of startup companies developing low carbon, specification-grade binders for full replacement of portland cement in concrete: Brimstone Vice President of Materials Science & Geology Marcelo De Oliveira, Ph.D.; and, Sublime Systems Co-Founder and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Yet-Ming Chiang.…

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ABC: Unionized construction workforce slide continues

Sources: Associated Builders and Contractors, Washington, D.C. An Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of 2023 union membership data published by UnionStats.com finds at least 90 percent of workers in the private construction industry do not belong to a union in 29 states, up from 26 and 24 states in the prior two years. North Carolina, Mississippi, Maine, South Carolina and…

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Eco Material plans 700K tpy ash harvest at Alabama Power station

Sources: Eco Material Technologies, South Jordan, Utah; CP staff Fly ash market leader Eco Material has announced a collaboration with Southern Co. subsidiary Alabama Power to harvest and process millions of tons of stored coal combustion products from Plant Barry, a Bucks, Ala. power station. The project is the third such venture with the Atlanta-based utility giant, following CCP harvesting…

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