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I love checking out products at the American Public Works Association's annual convention. This year's show was in Phoenix, but neither 110-degree heat nor the city's worst storm in 39 years dimmed my enthusiasm. More

The primary material for the entire complex is precast concrete.  The concrete panels are textured using irregular striations to resemble the effect of a river cutting through a canyon.  “We chose concrete because this material, too, has come full circle and is expressive of our architectural intent,” Spillman Farmer Project Architect Michael J. Metzger, AIA, LEED AP explained.  “Northampton County is the birthplace of Portland cement, an element that helped propel our region’s past successes.  But, cement has also become a high-tech building material that delivers in incredible gains – in construction time, visual expression, and user experience.” More

Last week Ron Holzhauer, Masonry Construction's executive editor and I were two of more than 150,000 attendees at CONEXPO-CON/AGG, the US's tri-annual equipment showcase. More