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Latest Weapon Against Sinkholes: Super Foam 5/6/2009 8:36:00 AM
Workers resorted to an unusual brew of concrete and expandable foam when plugging sinkholes in Plant City and North Tampa ... More
Ethanol Plants Sold Staff - 04/27/2009
Valero Energy Corp., San Antonio, TX, was the successful bidder at an auction sale to buy eight ethanol plants owned by VeraSun Energy Corp., Sioux Falls, SD. On April 1, transactions closed on plants in Charles City, Fort Dodge and Hartley, IA; Aurora, SD; and Welcome, MN, for $350 million. Two additional plants in Albion, NE, and Albert City, IA, will close by the end of April.
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Strings Music Festival Pavilion Staff - 04/27/2009
For two decades, the city of Steamboat Springs, CO, held its classical and popular music concerts in a large tent. In fall 2008, the tent was replaced by an elegant timber-framed concert hall that is already drawing record crowds. Steamboat Springs is now celebrating the completion of its $4.3-million Strings Music Festival Pavilion.
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Material Handling During A Flood By Ivy Chang - 04/20/2009
When spring arrives, people usually are upbeat and look forward to better weather. But, that's not the case in the Red River Valley as melting snow and rain gushed downstream and overflowed the Red River of the North until the plains of the Upper Midwest were covered with water that saturated the clay soil and then couldn't go anywhere.
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NW Cement Producers Group Merges with PCA Staff - 04/20/2009
Gig Harbor, WA— The Northwest Cement Producers Group, a multistate association headquartered in Washington, has merged into the national Portland Cement Association. John V. Arroyo of Gig Harbor, who has managed the marketing cooperative as executive director since its inception in 1994, will continue in that capacity to serve the architectural, engineering and construction industries in ...
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Material Handling On Today's Job Sites By Steve Hudson - 04/15/2009
On today's construction sites, time is most assuredly money — and time spent handling construction materials ...
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PCA Updates Concrete-Mixture Manual Staff - 04/13/2009
The Portland Cement Association (PCA) is now offering the newest version of "Design and Control of Concrete Mixture," newly updated in 2008. It addresses the fundamentals of freshly mixed and hardened concrete, including materials, air-entrainment, mix and curing procedures, hot- and cold-weather concreting, commonly used control tests for quality, and many more.
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Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC Releases Results of Study Staff - 04/13/2009
Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC recently announced the results of a study, developed with Turner Construction of Boston, MA, that shows significant scheduling — and therefore financial — benefits of using Dens™ Brand paperless, moisture-resistant fiberglass mat gypsum products. Paperless fiberglass mat gypsum panels are designed as a replacement for paper-faced panels in commercial...
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Restoring The Bricks in Roswell An apartment building dating from almost 170 years ago is restored and expanded to create new residential space in an historic Atlanta suburb.
Restoring The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum The restoration of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City involved rebuilding the museum's Pier 86 into a state-of-the-art docking facility.
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