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  Bright Idea

  A second solar panel fabrication facility nearing completion in Fremont, Calif., symbolizes the trend toward clean energy technology serving both environmental responsibility and economic recovery.

   
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  Cement for Severe Environments

  A new pozzolanic cement when used to make concrete can resist attack in acidic or alkaline environments and also withstand higher temperatures than portland cement concrete.

   
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  Concrete Superstructures

  "Composite structures" combine the two using structural steel columns and beams for floor construction, concrete on metal deck floors, and a concrete core structure that contains elevators and emergency stairwells.

   

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Concrete Joint Sustainability Initiative

• The Big Top

  How-To Zone, Sealing Joints, Sustainability and concrete, and new Pervious Blog are in this month's edition.

   

• An Industrywide Call to Action

  In a Wednesday morning press conference, the Concrete Joint Sustainability Initiative laid out plans to lend a voice to the various segments of the concrete construction industry–aggregate, ready-mix, tilt-up, precast, etc.–to educate stakeholders about the role and responsibilities of concrete in...

   
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  GREENSITE Showcases Sustainability

  GREENSITE is celebrating its third year at WOC and continues to highlight the latest and greatest in sustainable technology and techniques.

   

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Recycled Concrete

• NRMCA Selects Speakers for 2012 International Concrete Sustainability Conference

  Speakers have been selected for the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s 7th annual International Concrete Sustainability Conference to be held May 7-10 in Seattle.

   

• Global Demand for Construction Aggregates to Exceed 48 Billion Metric Tons in 2015

  The global market for construction aggregates is expected to increase 5.2 percent per year through 2015 to 48.3 billion metric tons.

   
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  Putzmeister America 63ZMeter

  Construction of the Marriott Atlanta Airport Getaway Hotel focused on two factors when building began: Finding an efficient boom pump for a restrictive site and receiving LEED certifi cation for efforts in green energy.

   

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Green Building

• Third Public Comment Period for Update to USGBC's LEED Green Building Program to Open Next Month

  USGBC's third public comment period for the proposed 2012 update to its LEED green building program will open Mar. 1, 2012.

   
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  Montage Deer Valley

  Concrete played a significant role in building Montage Deer Valley, a 988,000-square-foot luxury resort and spa.

   
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  Thomas Jefferson School of Law

  Thomas Jefferson School of Law in downtown San Diego is an eight-story classroom building, with ground-level retail space, and three levels of underground parking.

   

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Green Products

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  Taking the Green Leed

  The Harm A. Weber Academic Center is a recently completed green building at Judson University in Elgin, Ill. The 88,000-square-foot building houses the new Benjamin P. Browne Library and the Division of Art, Design and Architecture.

   
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  Decorative Concrete Industry Reacts to Changing Market Conditions

  Major changes can be expected in the decorative concrete industry due to fluxation of the housing industry.

   

• Sustainability and green building

  It's one thing to talk about sustainability and green building; it's something else to actually do something about it. And that's where Holcim is stepping up.

   

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