Contents
COVER STORY, P. 20
v
Concrete
VOL. 116 NO. 3
products
DEPARTMENTS
4 EDITORIAL
Vulcan, Martin Marietta, Oldcastle
offer encouraging 2013 outlook
6 GUEST EDITORIAL
New energy codes magnify tilt-up
building system advantages
PHOTOS: National Ready Mix
8 GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
• Business interests confront White
House's National Labor Relations
Board maneuvers
• Taxpayer group probes feds' alliance
with U.S. Green Building Council
• Cement Trust aims to nix
developing nations' shovelmixed concrete practice
10 NEWS SCOPE
• Google, FHWA officials anchor Concrete
Sustainability Conference program
• Global cement group guides
Environmental Product Declarations
for plain concrete
• PCA executives assure allied groups
of cement companies' support
National Ready Mix supplies Skanska USA crews fabricating the Metro Gold Line Bridge, the
latest example of architectural cast-in-place excellence in southern California.
NRMCA CHAIRMAN WILLIAM CHILDS, P. 24
DRIVER OF THE YEAR, P. 30
• Masonry module joins
Holcim app library
15 DEVELOPMENTS
17 BRIEFS
37 INNOVATIONS REPORTS
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Finisher, CIM crews experience
W/C-friendly troweling aid first hand
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DISPATCH EQUIPMENT, P. 40
Calorimetry device pegs negative
binder and admixture combinations
Hensel Ready Mix Grows through
embracing dispatch technology
43 INNOVATIONS
45 MARKETPLACE CLASSIFIEDS
48 FINAL FORM
Exemplary retaining walls give
rise to new Rockies
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