Building Boom, Need for Speed
Driving Concrete Demand
A construction boom coupled with designers and contractors looking for faster and better ways to deliver projects for owners have created an ideal environment where concrete innovation has thrived in recent years.
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Local Outlook
2007 Midwest Activity May
Ease from Rapid Climb
Despite soaring material prices and a shrinking labor force,
commercial construction activity in the Midwest has risen
every year since 2000.
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Alternative
Delivery Methods
'Rethinking' Latest R In School
Construction
Educator Chuck Bumbales has gotten a schooling on how construction
projects are delivered.
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Concrete Makes 92-Story Trump
Stand Tall in Chicago
Concrete is a key element in the 92-story Trump International Tower & Hotel
Indeed, 20 concrete mixes are used, and about 300 trucks concrete are received every week, said Brett Szabo, senior project manager of concrete for Chicago-based James McHugh Construction Co., the concrete contractor.
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Concrete Use Gets
Even Cooler in Texas
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin's Construction Materials Research Group have been studying the effects of liquid nitrogen on concrete since 2004.
Their investigation, sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation, is focusing on the safety implications of liquid nitrogen applications;
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Rolling With Some Concrete Changes
After an initial recent trial of roller-compacted concrete on the shoulders of a section of Interstate 285 in Atlanta, the Georgia Department of Transportation is looking to expand its use of the paving material, including possibly on mainline pavements.
"We've had good results, so that gives us an opportunity to see if it'll work in a different application," said Georgene Geary, state materials and research engineer with the Georgia DOT.
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Monolithic Church Complex
Crops Up in Birmingham
The $16.5 million activity center project at Faith Chapel Christian Center in Birmingham, Ala., is not like most other church expansion projects.
This one requires the construction of six monolithic concrete domes totaling 120,000 sq. ft. across 16 of the church's 140 acres. The additions are being built next to the church's existing 87,000-sq.-ft. domed sanctuary, the largest single dome in the country at the time of its construction three years ago.
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Indianapolis Public Schools
$832 Million Program
Moves into New Phase
The mammoth capital improvement program of the Indianapolis Public Schools is a little ahead and a little behind, but pretty much on track. When finished, it will have taken more than a decade and about $832 million, and all 79 schools will see new academic life.
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National Outlook
Over the Top
Along with the record-setting construction starts over the
past several years, industry executives kept wondering, "How
hot can this market get?"
Now they know.
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Granulated Blast Furnace Slag
Helps School Achieve Platinum
For a school complex to achieve a LEED platinum rating, every conceivable sustainable technique and product has to be used to its utmost viability.
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