Decorative Concrete Business Rebuilding the Pentagon

September 11 changed the way we perceive ourselves as a nation. En masse, we watched, horrified, as the very structures of our freedom were shaken to the ground leaving fear and insecurity hanging in the air like dust motes. Even when the dust began to settle, the sense of horror was replaced by something equal as disturbing but more intangible — the feeling of helplessness.

As the nation came to terms with their grief and outrage, others stepped into the debris and began to clear a path for rebirth in hopes that by rebuilding the physical structures that had been destroyed, some part of the American psyche may be patched as well. For those who contributed to this labor, and continue to do so, the work was a way to stymie the tide of helplessness with a wealth of unprecedented effort.

If putting the country back together after September 11 is a jigsaw puzzle, members of the decorative concrete business are a small but integral piece. Without their efficient efforts, the larger-scale effort would not be same. When Isaac Sparks of Hunt Valley Contractors (HVC) in Owings Mills, Maryland received a phone call on October 2 from Nick MacIntosh, assistant project manager for the sub-contractor working on the rebuilding of the Pentagon, he leapt at the opportunity to help with the project. HVC is a specialty concrete subcontractor and a distributor of form liners. The company provides services for colored, imprinted and textured concrete finishes. It is also the exclusive mid-Atlantic distributor for Custom Rock International form liners.