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When a landscape architecture firm drafted a plan to create playground trails and basketball courts for a Park California, it turned to one of the largest decorative concrete companies in the country, T.B. Penick & Sons Inc. of San Diego, to bring a wide range of cutting-edge decorative concrete systems to the project.
A leader with a vision and a visionary leader are not the same. It is not enough to simply have a vision and convey the vision to a group of people. You must be emotionally intelligent to understand how to emotionally convey a vision.
Small companiess are better equipped to be successful in this way and its time to harness it.
Let’s start at the beginning: What is GFRC, what are its benefits and what are its downsides? GFRC stands for glass-fiber reinforced concrete. The GFRC I use is a composite of portland cement, silica sand, Forton VF-774 , Liquefaction Compound, Vitro Minerals VCAS-micronHS, water, and alkali-resistant chopped glass-fiber strands.
Using epoxy instead of cement opens up all kinds of new possibilities for terrazzo floors.
Unless you can handle every decorative concrete job yourself, a skilled, reliable crew is one of the keys to staying in business.
Concrete Decor talked to several business owners and got some great advice about effective ways to train and keep a crew.
There’s a very lucky group of kids at Bluff View Private Preschool in Fresno, Calif. Thanks to contractor Chris Swanson of Colour and his team, the students now have their very own “city” to play in.
Prosoco Inc., a manufacturer of products that clean, protect and maintain concrete, floors and architecture, has added Joe Reardon as concrete products group specialist to its Consolideck finished-concrete flooring team. Reardon will promote Consolideck high-performance flooring products, develop new business, conduct training and help solve jobsite problems. Though he has […]
Cemstone Products Co., a Midwest supplier, has promoted Jason Fritz to the position of sales manager, Cemstone Contractor Supply. In this newly created position, Fritz will be responsible for strategic planning, sales, marketing and branding for all products and services distributed through Cemstone Contractor Supply. In addition, he will supervise […]
The 45th Edition of ASTM Standards in Building Codes is now available from ASTM International. The Building Codes contain more than 1,300 ASTM construction standards to give contractors the tools they need to design and construct buildings that satisfy requirements established by the International Code Council. Copies of ASTM Standards […]
Building materials manufacturer Lafarge recently completed the purchase of the southeastern Louisiana sand and gravel assets of Texas Industries Inc. The acquisition consists of four sand and gravel pits, allowing Lafarge to enter the southeastern Louisiana aggregates market. The operations will be integrated into Lafarge’s Eastern U.S. Aggregates and Concrete […]
