NPCA members elected a new president, honored a longtime Associate member with the industry’s most prestigious award and toured eight precast plants in three states during the association’s annual convention in Providence, R.I., the first week in October. Mike Hoffman, vice president of corporate development at Lindsay Precast Inc., headquartered in Canal Fulton, Ohio, was installed as the chairman of …
Location: Carlsbad, Calif.Engineer: Rick EngineeringContractor: Basile Construction Bressi Ranch in Carlsbad, Calif., is like many coastal communities. It has charming homes, beautiful parks, great schools and local shopping. In 2017, the community began an expansion with a condominium and retail center built on 17 acres of vacant land; however, the project was going to produce a large amount of stormwater …
Project Owners: Cities of Signal Hill and Long Beach, Calif.Architect/Engineer: Tetra Tech Inc. and GHD Inc.Contractor: Mike Bubalo Construction CompanyPrecast Concrete Manufacturer: Jensen Precast As the A-Team pulled off another escape, Hannibal Smith would often proclaim, “I love it when a plan comes together.” Come together it did for seven communities in Southern California. Faced with resolving a U.S. Environmental …
When precast concrete products are used for infrastructure projects, the ability to customize the shape, size and strength gives engineers and contractors the flexibility they need to tackle tough challenges. When a material with so much potential is put in the hands of architects, functionality gives way to beauty, and the results are visually stunning. Precast is employed by top …
Think for a minute about Rice Krispies. They’ve been around since 1927. Many of us grew up with the “snap, crackle, pop” advertising campaign that created a fun, colorful image of this popular breakfast cereal, which in reality is nothing more than thin hollowed out puffs of crisped rice, sugar, salt, engineered vitamin ingredients and preservatives. If you separate the …
Header image: © Richard Barnes When Steven Holl Architects set out to design the The Glassell School of Art at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, there was a clear goal in mind – make the building as much a work of art as what is created inside of it. The result is a one-of-a-kind structure featuring 178 unique precast concrete …
More and more Americans are ditching their cars and riding a bike to work, with one study showing bike commuting doubling in the 50 largest U.S. cities from 2007 to 2016. Many cities are embracing this trend, creating dedicated bike lanes on existing roads. Unfortunately, many times these lanes are nothing more than paint on a street, providing little safety …
In June, city workers conducting regular maintenance in downtown Indianapolis detected an underground sinkhole that, thankfully, had yet to reach the surface. The sinkhole was caused by a deteriorating brick manhole constructed somewhere in excess of 100 years ago. The city is now conducting a scan of its entire downtown sewer infrastructure to determine what other proactive measures it can …
Click the image above to download the file. Information and infographic courtesy of the Tulsa Welding School Click on the infographic in order to zoom in and view the information. It’s no secret that America’s infrastructure is in dire need of repair and replacement. Roads, airports and transportation systems are all in need of revitalization, as our infrastructure has been …
AASHTO – this acronym stands for American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. If you have not heard of them and build precast products for transportation-related projects, then you should. AASHTO is a non-governmental association, but the voting members are engineers and employees within all the state departments of transportation. Within this organization, there are many subgroups, which deal …
