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Catalina Pacific deploys eight plants, 200+ trucks for record 21K-yd. pour

April 1, 2014 Concrete News

Catalina Pacific deploys eight plants, 200+ trucks for record 21,000-yd. pour

Occupying the site of a hotel that hosted guests from Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan to John F. Kennedy and U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Wilshire Grand Center is rising on sound footing thanks to a Guinness Book of World Records-grade concrete placement.

Catalina Pacific deploys eight plants, 200+ trucks for record 21K-yd. pour

February 18, 2014 Concrete News

Sources: Headwaters Inc., South Jordan, Utah; CalPortland Co., Glendora, Calif.; CP staff

Catalina Pacific Concrete delivered 2,120 loads of ready mixed over a 19-hour window, February 15-16, to the Wilshire Grand site in downtown Los Angeles. Executed without a single injury, the operation marked what project officials note is a new volume threshold, 21,200 yd., for a continuous foundation pour.