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• PCA Chair Aris Papadopoulos Makes the Case for Resilience at Rio+20

  Posted On: June 19, 2012

  Build with resiliency so we don't have to build twice.

  That's the message of PCA Chairman of the Board Aris Papadopoulos, Titan America, who also heads the Private Sector Advisory Group of UNISDR, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.

  Papadopoulos made his remarks yesterday at the four-day Corporate Sustainability Forum, held ...

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  Category: Resilience

• Public Works Survey Reports Concrete as "Preferred Material"

  Posted On: June 19, 2012

   Public Works magazine highlighted the “battle royale” between concrete and asphalt roads in the April 2012 issue.

   

  In the editorial “Construction season’s Battle Royale,” editor Stephanie Johnston featured results from a February 29, 2012, survey of a Public Works e-newsletter, that showed 52 percent of respondents preferred concrete ...

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  Category: Marketing and Promotion

• Resiliency Revisited: A Tale of Two Homes

  Posted On: June 15, 2012

   "The picture says it all: Kevin and Sarah Beth Harrison clinging to their young children amid the wreckage of their home."

  That's the opening line of a recent video from FLASH--the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes--showing in dramatic fashion how a concrete masonry safe room offers protection from tornadoes and storms.

  Four ...

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  Category: Resilience

• For better gas mileage, consider what you drive on rather than what you drive in

  Posted On: June 04, 2012

  Everyone knows that vehicles with greater fuel efficiency save money, reduce dependence on foreign oil, and lower our carbon footprint.

  But what if the type of pavement we drive on could also reduce fuel consumption.

  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that using stiffer pavements on the nation’s roads could ...

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  Category: Sustainability