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• International Forum To Focus on Sustainable Concrete Pavements

  Posted On: September 03, 2010

  The Advanced Concrete Pavement Technology (ACPT) Products Program is conducting a conference designed to provide highway and airport agencies and the industry with the most current information on sustainability considerations for concrete pavements.

  The conference will provide an international forum to discuss the sustainable attributes of concrete pavements by presenting ...

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  Category: Events

• PCA To Host Seminar on Bridge Design Specs

  Posted On: September 02, 2010

  Bridge engineers will be able to participate in a seminar on AASHTO LRFD Specifications on Sept. 16 at PCA headquarters in Skokie. The seminar is particularly timely because all bridges receiving federal funding must now be designed using AASHTO’s load factor and resistance design (LRFD) bridge design specifications.

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  Category: Education

• Cement Industry Urges EPA to Avoid Hazardous Waste Label For Fly Ash

  Posted On: September 01, 2010

  The EPA yesterday held its first of seven public hearings on the proposed rules to govern the handling and disposal of fly ash. The hearing was held in Arlington, Va., and was covered fairly widely by the news media. Here’s what a couple of the reports had to say:

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  Category: Legislation

• PCA Forms Market Intelligence Department

  Posted On: August 31, 2010

  PCA has formed a new department, Market Intelligence, to better leverage PCA’s resources to provide members with the market intelligence and industry information they need to make business decisions. The department combines PCA’s previous market research and economic research departments to consolidate information gathering and data collection with analysis and ...

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  Category: Market Intelligence

• Former State Highway Chief: Transportation Policy Needs Funding Plans

  Posted On: August 30, 2010

  A former president of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials said recently that state transportation departments are in dire straits and called on the Obama administration to include financing proposals in any federal transportation policy strategy it creates. Pete K. Rahn, president of the American Association of State ...

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  Category: Legislation

• ARRA Credited With Creating/Saving Up To 3.3M Jobs

  Posted On: August 27, 2010

  Congressional analysts earlier this week released new figures on President Obama’s stimulus plan, including figures indicating that the measure has created or saved as many as 3.3 million jobs. The figures also indicate that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will cost approximately $814 billion over a 10-year-period, compared with ...

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  Category: Market Intelligence

• Tuesday is Concrete Day At MIT Sustainability Hub

  Posted On: August 26, 2010

  Reminder: Tuesday is 2010 Concrete Industry Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Concrete Sustainability Hub. At the event, researchers from the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSH) will reveal their initial research findings and progress. The two inaugural work plans under way at the CSH are:

  • The Edge of Concrete: A ...

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  Category: Sustainability

• No Price Increases On Building Materials in July

  Posted On: August 25, 2010

  Concrete prices saw a significant decline in July, dropping 4.3 percent from June levels. For the second month in a row, prices were either down or flat for all building materials, according to Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. For the month, lumber prices declined by 1.9 percent, steel ...

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  Category: Market Intelligence

• Latest PCA Ad Invites "Apples to Apples" Comparison

  Posted On: August 24, 2010

  
  

  Have you seen the latest “Think Harder. Concrete” advertisement from PCA? It invites pavement specifiers to compare apples to apples when comparing concrete to pavement. The underlying theme is that when you compare the two materials on an equal basis, there is really no comparison – concrete not only has ...

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  Category: Marketing and Promotion

• ARRA Highway Spending Down Slightly In July

  Posted On: August 23, 2010

  Total highway spending from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) totaled $1.272 billion in July, a decline in growth rate, as spending volumes were down slightly from June levels. According to a recently released PCA Economic Research Report , 41.7 percent of total ARRA highway funds have been dispersed ...

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  Category: Market Intelligence

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