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.
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Reardon joins Consolideck team
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 fills new sales manager position
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 […]
ASTM releases new edition of Standards in Building Codes
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 […]
Lafarge buys sand and gravel pits
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 […]
Grace agrees to market slump measurement system
Grace Construction Products and RS Solutions LLC, an independent, privately owned technology company, announced that they have entered into an agreement where Grace will be the exclusive sales and marketing agent for the Ready Slump System to ready-mix concrete producers worldwide. The Ready Slump System is a truckmounted process control […]
New curing and sealing course available at AEC Daily Web site
W.R. Meadows Inc. has created a brand new AIA-approved continuing education presentation entitled “Concrete Curing Compounds and Sealers Examined, and The New Era of Polished Concrete.” It is being hosted on the AEC Daily Web site. The course provides an overview of differences between concrete curing compounds, cure-and-seals and sealers, […]
Supply store opens near Dallas
With 35,000 square feet of retail, distribution and training space, Decorative Construction Supply, the largest store of its kind in North Texas, officially opened for business June 9 in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Decorative Construction Supply’s principal partners are president Cindy Hamm and vice president Corey Granger. Cindy, […]
Bon Tool acquires Wha-Lite Corp.
Bon Tool Co. has completed its acquisition of Wha-Lite Corp. and the operating assets of the Chicago-based tool company. For more than 60 years, Wha-Lite has manufactured professional-quality tools for plaster and concrete finishing Bon will continue to manufacture select Wha-Lite magnesium products, maintaining Wha-Lite tool specifications as well as […]
Lafarge acquires Memphis cement terminal
Lafarge has announced that it has completed the purchase of a cement terminal in Memphis, Tenn., from Angelle Concrete Products Group LLC, known locally as Memphis Cement. The acquired President’s Island Cement Terminal and its employees will be consolidated into Lafarge Cement’s River Business Unit operations. The addition of the […]
