The American Society of Civil Engineers salutes the Sixth Street Viaduct Replacement with Gold honors in the 2024 Outstanding Civil Engineering Awards (OCEA) program. The largest, most complex bridge project in Los Angeles history, the $588 million crossing replaces an iconic double-steel-arch structure, one seen in many movies and TV series, with a span featuring 10 pairs of sculptural arches.…
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This year began with a shareholder vote realigning the portfolio and ownership of Denver-based Summit Materials Inc. around Argos North America Corp. cement and ready mixed production assets and top shareholder Cementos Argos S.A. It closes with prospects for a similar action transforming New York Stock Exchange-traded Summit Materials to a subsidiary of privately held Quikrete Holdings Inc., Atlanta. The…
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Familiar names dominate a new White House report on Federal Buy Clean Initiative and Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Demonstration Program progress. The administration salutes six concrete or cement producers, CO2-mineralizing process developer CarbonCure Technologies, and four cementitious material startup companies for corporate or project-specific commitments outlined in response to Buy Clean and Industrial Demonstrations calls to action. Commitments referencing…
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Heldenfels Enterprises Inc. (HEI) is among Texas precast, prestressed producers that rode a strong Great Recession recovery, then positioned its human and plant capital for even healthier public and private construction market activity after 2020. Based at an 85-acre San Marcos site along Interstate 35, HEI is uniquely equipped to serve segments accounting for the bulk of the state’s structural…
Read MoreA new report from The Climate Group, based in London with a New York office, looks beyond carbon dioxide emissions reduction cost factors in concrete and steel to price premiums the market might bear when presented conventional versus low-carbon material options. “The Steel and Concrete Transformation: 2024 market outlook on lower emission steel and concrete” was released late last month…
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Newport Beach, Calif.-based Belwood Investments is set to close on an oceanfront Malibu property, near Los Angeles, designed by legendary Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Of 24844 Malibu Road, original owner Richard Sachs, an art collector and financier, said: “This is like a Picasso, a cubist painting, very important and very rare.” With four bedrooms and five baths, the architectural cast-in-place…
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Chaney Enterprises’ newest Maryland plant fills prime area along Washington, D.C./Interstate 494 periphery Chaney Enterprises, a Maryland-based ready mixed concrete, sand, gravel and block producer, has an unrivaled organic growth and acquisition record over the past five years along the Atlantic Seaboard markets, leading to a portfolio of 125 sites in six states, including Washington, D.C., and nearly 1,300 employees.…
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Successful deployments of treatment technologies for substandard coal combustion products (CCP) signal decades of Class F fly ash supplies for North American concrete producers. Such assurance stands regardless of specification-grade ash availability reflecting power generating station coal to natural gas conversions—or the pace of a broader energy sector shift from fossil fuels to alternative sources. With 6 percent to 15…
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Charlotte-based Concrete Supply Co. signals Carolinas market leadership in a new ready mixed operation serving Greenville-Spartanburg, the heart of upstate South Carolina. Rated at 300-yd./hour, the twin-alley, transit mixed plant occupies just under half of a 20-acre Spartanburg site. It replaces a 1960s’ era, 120-yd./hour central mixed plant that had evolved under Metromont LLC, Greenville, RMC Industries, Atlanta, and Cemex…
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White House and Department of Labor (DOL) staff attempts to lower contractor margins and raise public-construction costs hit a roadblock late last month in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Lubbock Division. Associated General Contractors of America-led plaintiffs prevailed in a challenge to three provisions in the DOL’s “Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulations” final rule,…
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