ACI launches twin Decorative Flatwork certifications
The newest American Concrete Institute certification program offerings are Decorative Concrete Flatwork Finisher and Decorative Concrete Flatwork Associate. Each requires candidates to complete a...
View ArticleLife cycle auditor revises pavement software program
The Athena Sustainable Materials Institute, Ottawa, has updated the Pavement LCA Web App to further simplify life cycle assessment (LCA) and make paving more environmentally sustainable and cost...
View ArticleLehigh maps four-year, $600M master plan for Indiana mill
The most ambitious capital undertaking in the 11-year history of Lehigh Hanson Inc. entails a four-year, $600 million-plus modernization and expansion of the Lehigh Cement Co. Mitchell plant, aimed at...
View ArticleIrving Materials propels CIM campaign to critical watermark
The School of Concrete and Construction Management at Middle Tennessee State University, which hosts the Concrete Industry Management program, has received the largest company donation to their...
View Article3-D printing commands ACI Committee status
The newly formed ACI Committee 564, 3-D Printing with Cementitious Materials will report on three-dimensional printing and additive manufacturing with inorganic cementitious materials, and develop...
View Article‘Tower of Voices’ provides everlasting memorial to Flight 93 victims
PennStress, a division of the MacInnis Group, LLC, provided more than 50 precast concrete segments for a 93-ft. tower located on the grounds of the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pa....
View ArticlePrecast owns up to Cuomo Bridge joint venture’s expectations
The final span of the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge opened last month, linking New York and New Jersey over the Hudson River and succeeding the Tappan Zee Bridge. The New York State Thruway Authority,...
View ArticleCemex Arizona ace takes National Mixer Driver Championship
A delivery professional based at the Cemex plant in Marana, Ariz., Thomas Comeau won the 2018 National Mixer Truck Driver Championship, staged during the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association...
View Article100,000th McNeilus mixer bound for CalPortland’s Glacier Northwest fleet
A milestone, technology-laden Bridgemaster that McNeilus Truck & Manufacturing Co. displayed at the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s ConcreteWorks conference outside Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleNRMCA survey measures minor decline in mixer driver pool
Results from the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association Workforce Development Committee’s 2018 Mixer Driver Recruitment and Retention Survey confirm increased pressure on ready mixed producers to...
View ArticleVolumetric Mixer Bureau launches operator certification
The Volumetric Mixer Manufacturers Bureau, a National Ready Mixed Concrete Association affiliate, has finalized certification criteria aimed at building operator professionalism and providing proof of...
View ArticleDeveloper of rebar-tying robot takes top AGC-Autodesk award
Saxonburg, Pa.-based Brayman Construction and its affiliate, Advanced Construction Robotics, took first place and a $10,000 prize in the inaugural Associated General Contractors of America-Autodesk...
View ArticleNew York terminal shows McInnis capacity for conservation, disruption
New York City Council and community organization representatives recently joined McInnis Cement officials for a formal opening of the producer’s 44,000-metric ton (mt) capacity terminal in the...
View ArticleNanotech enables contractor to execute jointless slabs on grand scale
Atlanta-based Sinclair Construction Group has launched the Megaslab Jointless Concrete System, crediting its design and performance potential for large slab-on-grade project owners to “ground-breaking...
View ArticleCemex R&D subsidiary sees the ups and downs of energy storage
Crane-suspended concrete segments, patterned like an enormous stave silo, power a commercial scale-ready system announced last month at Energy Storage North America in Pasadena, Calif. The technology...
View ArticleAustralia’s Brickworks enters North America through Glen-Gery
A major player in U.S. brick production and distribution is set to change hands this month as its parent company focuses on core United Kingdom markets. Ibstock plc of Leicestershire, England, has...
View ArticleTrinity aggregates spinoff hits ground running with $315M ACG deal
An early-November spinoff of assets outside core Rail and Railcar Leasing and Management Services businesses under Dallas-based Trinity Industries Inc. spawned Arcosa Inc., a New York Stock...
View ArticleTerminal partnership shows Charah OK with expanded SCM network
Teaming with transload and aggregate supply specialist Oklahoma Construction Materials (OCM), Charah Solutions Inc. has installed fly ash silos at a rail terminal near Oklahoma City and Interstates 35...
View ArticleICPI rolls out workforce development program
Expedited by the Board of Directors, ICPI has launched a workforce development program in response to wide-spread contractor needs for new and better skilled employees. It includes a new Hardscape...
View ArticleResearch finds design-build delivery continues to make the grade
New Design/Build Institute of America-backed research finds that the design-build (DB) method delivers projects faster and with greater cost and schedule performance than Construction Management at...
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