The Conco Companies
are proud to report that one of our recent projects is the Second Place Winner
of the American Concrete Institute’s 2017 Excellence in Concrete Construction
Awards in the High Rise category. One of
only 12 winners internationally, the Premiere on Pine (formerly known as 815
Pine) is a 42-story tower that highlights the structural and technological
advancements made in the concrete industry over the last several years.
The Conco Companies is seeking an
experienced Safety Director to provide safety leadership to over 1,200
employees for our Northern California, Southern California, Washington, Oregon
and Colorado locations. The individual
will be responsible for helping to minimize and manage the legal and financial
risks associated with an integrated subcontracting construction company. The job includes overseeing Conco’s OSHA
Compliance, our Fleet Safety Management, and Environmental Compliance.
One recent project The Conco Companies
provided a range of concrete services for is the Salesforce Tower in San
Francisco. Now the tallest and most
expensive building in the city as well as the tallest occupied floor west of
Chicago, the Salesforce is close to completion.
Scheduled to open in early 2018, the project developer’s, Boston
Properties reports that nearly 700 construction workers are on site every day,
working around the clock to finish the tower.
At The Conco Companies, our portfolio
includes a wide variety of projects that have required the use of various
concrete mixes to meet their unique specifications. For projects that require extremely durable
and/or high-strength concrete, High-performance Concrete (HPC) is used.
The concrete industry produces approximately 10 billion tons of concrete worldwide. In the U.S. the industry has an annual
production of 500 million tons with an estimated value of $35 billion and employs
more than 2 million employees. It is suggested
that with the amount of the U.S.’s yearly production that it equals to about
two tons for every man, woman and child.
To produce these types of volumes,
it requires vast amounts of natural resources to supply the aggregate needed as
well as to make the cement. Concrete is
used to build highways, streets and bridges, commercial, industrial, medical
and educational structures, residential housing and other construction markets.
The Conco Companies
have an impressive fleet of modern, state-of-the-art concrete pumps in addition
to Telebelts. We use this equipment to
help us complete projects faster and more efficiently for our customers.
An interesting report from the
Portland Cement Association (PCA) illustrates the various uses for portland
cement as it is one of the key ingredients in concrete. They suggest that while concrete is very
important to the way we live, and in fact surrounds us, it
is often overlooked. They explain that
concrete “makes our homes and offices durable and more resilient in natural
disasters, it makes our roads and bridges strong and last longer, and thanks to
its permanence and energy efficiency, it helps sustain our environment.”
