Blastcrete Equipment Company Upgrades Mixer/Pump

The upgraded D6528 Mixer/Pump from Blastcrete Equipment Company gives gypsum flooring contractors a versatile and easy-to-use mixer/pump with high capacity and low maintenance. Contractors can use the mixer/pump to install gypsum underlayments for sound and fire proofing floors, as well as up to 1/2-inch aggregate concrete mixes for breezeways and patios. This eliminates the need for additional concrete pumping equipment, which saves space on jobsites and gives contractors greater and faster return on investment.

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Level 10 Begins Next Phase of Construction with Specialty Crane

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Level 10 Construction, the general contractor for 181 Fremont Street, has initiated Phase II of construction with the erection of the tower's five-story basement. The basement is being constructed with the assistance of a Wolffkran 700 B Luffing tower crane, the first of its kind used in the U.S. The Wolff 700 B crane is known for its ability to move extremely heavy loads at quick line speeds within a tight urban footprint. The crane will remain onsite for about a year. 181 Fremont, an 802-foot-tall, 70-story luxury residential and office tower in the SOMA neighborhood […]

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Clayco Completes Reinsurance Group of America's $150M HQ

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The Reinsurance Group of America's $150-million global headquarters in Chesterfield, Missouri was recently completed. Clayco served as the project's design builder and Gensler was the project architect. Jay Longo, president of Forum Studio (Clayco's full-service architecture practice), was the lead project designer and Fox Architects was the building design consultant and interior architect. Building construction began in spring of 2013 and was completed in the fall of 2014. Clayco labored through a record-setting winter and, despite over 80 lost days due to inclement weather, was able to bring the project in on time and under budget […]

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Partnership Agreement Implemented to Improve Protection of Construction Workers

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The Board of Certified Safety Professionals and the Associated General Contractors of America will collaborate on improving occupational safety and health, or OSH, at worksites throughout the United States. Stephen Sandherr, AGC CEO, and Cece Weldon, CSP, CHST, STS, BCSP board president, executed the partnership agreement, signing the document together at the recent AGC Safety and Health Committee Conference. “BCSP is proud to partner with AGC to work together to strengthen the safety, health and environmental practice,” says BCSP’s CEO, Dr. Treasa Turnbeaugh, CSP, ASP, CET. “AGC and BCSP leadership hold safety as a common value, and […]

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Gilbane Building Company Finishes Restoration of Historic Kings Theatre

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Gilbane Building Company recently completed the restoration and renovation of Kings Theatre, a 1929 historical landmark theater in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. After remaining vacant and falling into disrepair for nearly 40 years, the theater required extensive restoration and renovation work to bring the former movie palace back to its original grandeur and return as the largest performance arts venue in Brooklyn and third largest in New York City. Construction on the theater broke ground in January 2013. Work on the theater included a five-month “stabilization period” that was necessary to make the […]

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