PRO: An ACI Center of Excellence for Advancing Productivity recently announced its first members. Those members are: Ceco Concrete Construction, LLC, and The Conco Companies. Both organizations have joined PRO as Silver members.
Ceco is a nationwide leader in cast-in-place concrete construction. Originating in 1912 in Omaha, NE, Ceco is now headquartered in Kansas City, MO, with 19 locations across the country. The Conco Companies began in 1959 and are headquartered in the Bay Area in California, serving a wide range of areas on the West Coast, while also performing shotcrete and rebar installations. Ceco’s and Conco’s innovative reputations will be upheld through their membership with PRO.
“I’m delighted that PRO’s early members are long-established, highly successful, well respected concrete contractors with strong histories of design assist collaboration,” said Phil Diekemper, Executive Director, PRO. “PRO will seek to highlight their success stories as models for improving construction productivity while adding value to projects and their owners.”
Both PRO and its members aim to advance new technologies and processes that improve concrete construction productivity beyond historic levels. To either learn more about PRO or get involved, visit www.concreteproductivity.org.
About PRO
PRO: An ACI Center of Excellence for Advancing Productivity, was established in 2023 by the American Concrete Institute. The center has its home base at ACI World Headquarters in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA. It is a catalyst for solving the barriers of constructability to advance concrete construction productivity. It does this by leveraging ACI’s role as a world-leading authority and resource for the development, dissemination, and also adoption of consensus-based standards for concrete design, construction and materials. For further information, visit www.concreteproductivity.org.
