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• Transportation Study: Funding Needed For Bridge Repairs

  Posted On: March 31, 2011

  Tens of thousands of bridges in the United States need major repair or replacement and additional federal funding is “essential,” according to Transportation for America, a coalition of housing business, public health and transportation organizations. Federal spending for bridge repairs has severely lagged behind estimates of needed funding, notes a ...

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  Category: Funding

• If It's Pothole Season, It Must Be Asphalt

  Posted On: March 30, 2011

  It’s “pothole season” so that must mean it is time for . . . a new billboard and advertising campaign by the PCA North Central Region promoting the advantages of concrete pavement and maintenance technologies.  Billboards strategically located on a pothole-riddled section of I-94 debuted yeseterday throughout the Twin ...

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  Category: Marketing and Promotion

• Concrete Helping in Makeover of Historic Parkway in Connecticut

  Posted On: March 29, 2011

  The Merritt Parkway in Connecticut is getting a makeover, with the state Transportation Department resurfacing the roadway and restoring historic Art Deco bridges with concrete, according to various reports. Engineers are hand-mixing concrete to patch the bridges and get the same look as in the era in which they were ...

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  Category: Paving Projects

• Sustainability Added As Career Track By NRMCA

  Posted On: March 28, 2011

  The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association recently added Sustainability as a career track for its STEPS program. Sustainability joins Business Management, Concrete Technology, Operations & Production and Sales, Marketing & Promotion as options for STEPS, which stands for Seminars, Training & Education Programs. The addition of the Sustainability track reflects ...

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  Category: Sustainability

• PCA Efforts Pay off in South Dakota

  Posted On: March 25, 2011

  Efforts by PCA-North Central have paid off in South Dakota, where the state legislature has risen in support of funding local infrastructure by overriding Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s veto of HB 1192.  This bill increases transportation funding to cities and counties by $31 million, a 30 percent increase over current funding, ...

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  Category: Funding

• PCA Study Cites Negative Impact of EPA Rules

  Posted On: March 24, 2011

  A study released by PCA last week examines the impact of existing or proposed EPA regulatory standards that will cumulatively hamper the industry and economy while only producing minimal environmental benefit. The study found that one regulation alone – the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Pollutants (NESHAP) – will force ...

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  Category: Market Intelligence

• PCA Urges Transparency in EPA Reviews

  Posted On: March 23, 2011

  On March 14, PCA’s Government Affairs staff participated in a meeting with the U.S. EPA and emphasized the need for EPA to provide transparency and allow stakeholder input through the development of its plan for conducting retrospective reviews of existing significant regulations. The effort by EPA is in response to ...

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  Category: Legislation

• Asphalt Prices Up, Concrete Prices Down

  Posted On: March 22, 2011

  Steel and asphalt prices increased from January to February, while concrete prices declined. Steel prices increased by 4.7 percent increased from January to February, according to the latest Producer Price Index issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Asphalt saw a small jump of 0.9 percent, while both concrete and ...

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  Category: Market Intelligence

• Concrete Tops Asphalt For Wisconsin County Highway

  Posted On: March 21, 2011

  Here’s the latest example of a highway project switching from asphalt to concrete: According to a report in the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen in Wisconsin a highway project that would normally have gone to an asphalt contractor will instead be built using concrete paving. “It’s a little bit different approach ...

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  Category: Paving Projects

• Argos USA Joins PCA

  Posted On: March 18, 2011

  Argos USA joined PCA effective March 1, 2011. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Argos has three cement terminals in the United States serving the Southeast and Texas and an extensive ready-mixed concrete operation. Argos ranks as the sixth largest concrete producer in the U.S. Parent company Cementos Argos S.A. is ...

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  Category: People

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