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  • Deadline For ACI Concrete Sustainability Award

    Posted On: February 28, 2011

    Today is the final deadline for submissions for the American Concrete Institute’s new ACI Concrete Sustainability Award. The ACI Concrete Sustainability Award recognizes individuals or teams who have made contributions in highlighting concrete’s role related to sustainability. Notable contributions may be: demonstration or improvement in concrete’s sustainable attributes through research, ...

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  • Canadian Study Supports Paving's New Reality

    Posted On: February 25, 2011

    We’ve talked about Paving’s New Reality for a long time. Here’s more proof. An independent study by the Cement Association of Canada (CAC) and the Ready Mixed Concrete Association of Ontario (RMCAO) for the first time provides municipalities with the reference information they need to effectively compare the costs of concrete ...

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    Category: Market Intelligence

  • Registration Open For Cement Industry Technical Conference

    Posted On: February 24, 2011

    Are you thinking about attending the IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference in St. Louis May 22-26?Registration is now officially open. 

    The 53rd annual edition of the Cement Industry Technical Conference will include presentations from the industry’s top technical people, addressing the diverse technical issues and proposing potential solutions to ...

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    Category: Events

  • Price Index: Concrete Is Only Material With No 12-Month Increase

    Posted On: February 23, 2011

    Steel and lumber logged significant price hikes in January while asphalt and concrete remained flat, according to figures from the Producer Price Index (PPI). The steel PPI rose 2.0 percent in January over December, and lumber was up 1.9 percent. Both asphalt and concrete increased 0.1 percent. For the last ...

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  • Legislation Would Halt Funding For NESHAP Rules

    Posted On: February 22, 2011

    Last week’s passage of an appropriations rider halting funding to a recent emission rule-making for the portland cement industry is the first step towards regulations that protect American lives and American jobs. Introduced by Rep. John Carter (R-TX) and Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR), the rider to the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, ...

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    Category: Legislation

  • Industry Urged To Alert Congress Of EPA's Job-Killing Regs

    Posted On: February 18, 2011

    A PCA study shows that the EPA’s final rule that modifies the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) would impose $3.4 billion in new costs on the U.S. cement industry. Furthermore, a PCA study shows that the final rule jeopardizes the viability of 18 U.S. cement plants and ...

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    Category: Legislation

  • Stimulus Spending Down 31% In January Vs. December

    Posted On: February 17, 2011

    Approximately two-thirds of all highway funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) have been spent through January of 2011, according to a recent analysis by PC Market Intelligence. Through January, 65.9 percent of total ARRA funds have been dispersed, compared with 63.8 percent through the end of December....

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  • "Unhealed Wounds of the Great Recession"

    Posted On: February 15, 2011

    Interesting article in Bloomberg Businessweek titled “Welcome to Pothole Nation.” The crux of the article is that, as the article states, “the nation’s rutted roads are the most visible unhealed wounds of the Great Recession.”  For many states, road repairs have become a luxury that they can’t afford. In ...

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    Category: Paving Projects

  • PCA Focuses on Functional Resilience For Residential Buildings

    Posted On: February 11, 2011

    PCA has submitted comments to incorporate functional resilience requirements into the standards for all types of residential buildings. The comments were submitted as part of the process for the revision of the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) ICC700-2008, National Green Building Standard (NGBS). NGBS was developed by the NAHB ...

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    Category: Sustainability

  • Administration to Call for National Infrastructure Bank

    Posted On: February 10, 2011

    Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a blog post yesterday that the Obama Administration’s budget proposal due out next week will call for the creation of a national infrastructure bank that selects major projects for federal backing. There were no details on how much the budget for an infrastructure bank ...

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    Category: Legislation

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