Working with the Top Names in the Construction Industry

The Conco Companies have been honored to work with many of the top names in the construction industry including the Turner Construction Company, Clark Construction Group and Devcon Construction Inc.  These partnerships have given us the opportunity to work on many challenging and exciting projects up and down the West Coast.   

In the case of the Devcon Construction Company, Conco has been involved in several of their projects including the construction of the San Francisco 49ers stadium, which was a joint venture between Turner Construction and Devcon Construction.  We did the all of the concrete, which consisted of slabs in excess of 2,000,000 square feet and more than 65,000 cubic yards of concrete.  

Conco also worked with Devcon on a Class A office building in San Jose’s Santana Row that was developed by Federal Realty and Westwood Development Partners.  DevCon Construction served as the General Contractor.  The project consisted of pumping, formwork, reinforcing, stud rail fabrication, post tension, shotcrete, belting and trucking services. 

Another project was a parking structure of which Devcon was both the owner and the general contractor.  With a desire to get the project done quickly and economically, we provided shotcrete for the shear walls that spanned 310 lineal feet and 40 feet high.  In total, 390 cubic yards of concrete were shot and the walls were completed in only 25 working days. 

Devcon has been ranked as the largest general contractor in Silicon Valley for close to the last two decades, and handles projects both small and large for a wide range of owners, developers and end users.  Some of their other projects include the construction of the first lighthouse built on the West Coast in 50 years, a major university art museum, and along with national partners, the San Jose City Hall.   

Conco’s mission is to be the best supplier of concrete services in the Western United States and to bring expertise, experience and quality to each project.  We continue to upgrade and expand facilities to better serve the growing market for public works projects, commercial, parking structures, educational, and other construction development. We serve California, Washington State, Oregon, Colorado and Nevada.

 

Levi’s Stadium’s was the Place to Be for Super Bowl 50!

With 71,088 people attending Super Bowl 50, the San Francisco 49ers Levi’s Stadium did a great job hosting the game.  To commemorate the fact that this was the 50th Super Bowl, the NFL made a couple of changes to the look of the game.  One was to suspend the tradition of naming this game with a Roman numeral, which is an “L” for 50.  Instead the league chose to use the Arabic numeral 50.  They also used the color gold used to signify the “golden anniversary.” 

The game was watch by 111.9 million viewers to make it the third highest watched show in TV history.  Commercials during the big game, which was broadcast on CBS, cost an average $5 million for a 30 second ad.  Another hefty cost was the price of tickets on the secondary market.  StubHub, a leading ticket reseller, reports that the average price of a ticket was $5,134, with tickets varying from $1,222 for the cheapest to $27,983 for the most expensive.  The half-time show featured Coldplay and had special performances from Beyoncé and Bruno Mars. 

Although the actual Levi’s Stadium is located close to 50 miles away in Santa Clara, CA, the city of San Francisco created a “Super Bowl City” around the area of the Ferry Building.  It was opened on Saturday, Jan. 30 through Super Bowl Sunday.  The Ferry Building’s tower was decked out in a huge golden “50”.  As the area is known for its leadership in technology, it also provided an opportunity to “showcase the latest in interactive gaming, social media and data visualizations,”   Organizers expected more than a million people to attend. 

Speaking of technology, the Super Bowl 50 game set a record for using 10TB of data on Levi’s Stadium WiFi network.  This was a big increase from last year’s game, which used 6.2 TB of WiFi data.  Facebook was the most popular social app used during the game.  

The Conco Companies are one of the leading concrete contractors in the Western U.S. and offer a wide range of quality services and products.  While we tackle projects both big and small, our experience includes providing the complete concrete package for Levi’s Stadium along with other notable projects.  We serve California, Washington State, Oregon, Colorado and Nevada.

Levi’s Stadium - Ready for the Big Game!

While Super Bowl 50 will be held at the Levi’s Stadium on February 7th, it seems like just yesterday that The Conco Companies’ crews were working hard to help construct the new home for the San Francisco 49ers.  In order to be eligible to host the 2016 Super Bowl, the stadium had to be completed and operational for at least two seasons before the big game.  That meant that Conco, along with the rest of Levi’s construction team were on an accelerated schedule to complete the project in time for the start of the 49ers 2014 season. 

Even though the 1.2 billion facility is one of the most technologically advanced stadiums every built, gearing up to host Super Bowl 50 is not easy task.  According to CBS’s CNET, the stadium has, “400 miles of fiber and copper cable and 1,200 Wi-Fi access points capable of handling a torrent of data, all so fans at the game can use the Super Bowl app to seamlessly order food by phone.” 

This means spectators should have plenty of bandwidth to post photos or to comment on the action through their favorite social media sites.  While other Super Bowl games in the past have experienced power outages, (think back three years ago to New Orleans) Levi's Stadium has 10 times the bandwidth mandated by the NFL at other stadiums including that of the AT & T Stadium near Dallas. 

One misstep thus far, which of course was recorded on social media, was when the grounds crew was preparing the field and ended up painting the Denver Bronco’s logo and team colors on the wrong end zone.  While the mistake was quickly fixed, it probably is a good thing that the Panther’s team colors are blue and black as to help hide any remnants of the Bronco’s colors.

The Conco Companies are one of the leading concrete contractors in the Western U.S. and offer a wide range of quality services and products.  Our experience includes providing services for commercial, educational, parking and other construction development as well as public works projects.  Currently we serve California, Washington State, Oregon, Colorado and Nevada.

Source: people.com/article/super-bowl-stadium-end-zones-painted-incorrectly

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