W.R. Meadows Inc. has released its LEED Credit Calculator, an online feature designed to determine how W.R. Meadows products can contribute to LEED-certified construction.

The Jet-Kleen Personal Safety Blow-Off System from Specialized Safety Products is a safe and effective alternative to compressed air for a variety of cleaning applications, including dust, debris and moisture removal from both workers and equipment.

Braxton-Bragg LLC has announced the arrival of the Eagle Edger Jr. attachment for the Blue Ripper Jr. rail saw.

Pecora’s 890FTS Field Tintable Silicone is now available in a textured version, 890FTS-TXTR, providing a grout-like finish and joint movement of plus or minus 50 percent.

Bayer MaterialScience LLC’s family of Bayhydrol UV (ultraviolet cure) resins offers formulators and contractors ecofriendly concrete coatings with a faster return to service.

Butterfield Color Inc. has introduced a multitiered Cobble Circle pattern, which was crafted using the same hand-picked cobblestones used in making the Mayan Cobblestone pattern.

Blastrac has introduced a new line of Global Shot Blasters.

Blastrac has promoted Jonn Rippman to national sales manager and training director and Paul Robb to engineering manager.

Members of ASTM Committees C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates and C01 on Cement, as well as other interested parties, are invited to join the new Subcommittee C09.50 on Risk Management for Alkali Aggregate Reactions. The subcommittee will develop standards on the mitigation of harmful alkali-aggregate reactions in concrete.

The construction of Vancouver’s Olympic and Paralympic Village for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games involved all of Lafarge’s expertise in LEED certification, which was required by the specifications to reduce the buildings’ environmental footprint in terms of energy efficiency, water consumption, heating, use of local materials and reuse of any surplus.