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The American Society of Concrete Contractors Decorative Concrete Council celebrated winners for its Decorative Concrete Awards competition at the ASCC annual conference in Indianapolis in September. Emil J. Gera Concrete Contractor of Weatherly, Pennsylvania, snagged the competition’s top honors by winning the prestigious WOW! Award for a once-in-a-lifetime project where […]
In collaboration with and funded by the American Society of Concrete Contractors Education, Research & Development Foundation, the John R. Gentille Foundation, ELECTRI International, and The Association of Union Constructors (TAUC), researchers at Virginia Tech University have completed a first-of-its-kind helmet safety evaluation. Using the renowned STAR testing system, the […]
The Decorative Concrete Council (DCC) of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC), St. Louis, MO is excited to announce the launch of its Sixteenth Annual International Decorative Concrete Council Awards program for the year 2024. This prestigious award program recognizes and celebrates exceptional decorative concrete projects from around the […]
The DCC’s WOW Award was presented to Bomanite of Southeast Asia, Manilla, Philippines for the Manila Zoo rehabilitation project Vertical & Facades Over 5000 sf. The project was started during the height of the pandemic, which presented significant challenges with all the lockdown and movement restrictions. Moreover, the Manilla Zoo […]
The American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC) Education, Research and Development Foundation, St. Louis, MO, has awarded two scholarships for 2023 to students in the Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program. They are Arie Lynn Milam who attends Middle Tennessee State University and Alejandro Gonzolez-Ortiz who attends California State University Chico. […]
The American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC), St. Louis, MO, has established a telephone hotline and an email address for the sole purpose of receiving and answering questions about concrete construction as it relates to the industry’s sustainability initiative. Both are for members only. Jim Klinger, ASCC concrete construction specialist, […]
The American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC), St. Louis, has published its first ALERT!, a new bulletin to apprise members of issues and developments in the concrete construction industry. The first ALERT! Covers Portland-Limestone Cement Concrete. “ALERT! bulletins will be published as needed to provide timely notice of unusual, challenging, […]
The American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC) announced that they have retained Bruce Suprenant, P.E., PhD., FACI, and Bev Garnant, HACI, to develop and manage the association’s sustainability initiative. Suprenant and Garnant are ASCC’s former technical director and executive director respectively. “This initiative has two purposes,” explained Garnant. “The first […]
The American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC) Education, Research & Development Foundation has announced the launch of a website dedicated to the construction industry’s transformation from hard-hats-to-helmets (H2H). Over the past few years many companies have switched to the H2H plan. The new website aims itself at bringing further awareness […]
The Decorative Concrete Council (DCC), a specialty council of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC), St. Louis, MO, announces its International Project Awards 2023 Call for Entries. They are inviting entries in the following categories: Cementitious Overlays; Cast-in-Place Stamped; Stained & Dyes; Polished Concrete & Overlays; Cast-in-Place Special Finishes; […]
