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Volume 3 Issue 8 

November, 2012

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Helps Meet CA Water Use Efficiency Goals 

 

DID YOU KNOW?That the State of California has had an official 20 x 2020 Water Conservation Plan since 2010? And that the plan is designed to significantly reduce statewide water use by the year 2020? Well, it is true. This plan calls on all state agencies and California water utilities (the folks that sell us our urban water) in particular, to work together to cut per capita urban water use 10 percent by 2015 and 20 percent by the end of 2020. 

 

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The American Concrete Institute is offering FREE registration to World of Concrete 2013, Feb. 4-8 in Las Vegas. Join thousands of others at the industry's ONLY annual international event dedicated to the commercial concrete and masonry construction industries. 

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In This Issue
The "Fiscal Cliff"
Researchers Shake Building
New Product of the Month
Are you ready for the "Dark & Wet?"
Group Drops Suit
Is it Too Easy to be Green?
"Strange Facts & Useless Information
Comedy Corner
HUB Virtual Order Desk
Quote of the Month
3D Bricks?????
Key Test for re-healable concrete
Orange County looking to replace aging bridges.
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Will The Construction Industry 

Be A Victim Of The Fiscal Cliff? 


Despite admitting he's sometimes labeled "Dr. Doom," Ed Sullivan, vice president and chief economist for the Portland Cement Association (PCA), had some positive things to say about the construction economy - with caveats - while addressing attendees of theAssociated Equipment Distributors Executive Forum, September 6-7 in Rosemont, IL. He started by indicating that construction activity has grown 5.8% during the first half of 2012. 


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If you would like to attend a free webinar, from Associated General Contractors Association, concerning the "Fiscal Cliff", please click "HERE" 

 

 

Researchers to Shake a Building to Study its Performance During Earthquakes 


The two-story building on West Commercial Avenue in El Centro, Calif., was built in the 1920s and has withstood four major earthquakes in 1940, 1979, 1987 and 2010, but it may not be standing for long. 

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NEW PRODUCT OF THE MONTH
Spectra PrecisionŽ 
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The Rod-less Grade Checker
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November/December
Products of the Month
Are You Ready for the 
Dark and Wet Days Ahead?
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See How HUB Can Help !
 
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Group drops suit, clearing way for NFL stadium
LA stadium

A coalition of anti-poverty groups has agreed to drop a lawsuit involving the developer of a proposed NFL stadium in downtown Los Angeles, clearing the last remaining legal obstacle to the city's approval of the $1.2-billion project. 

 

Please click "HERE" to read the entire story 

 
In U.S. building industry, 
is it too easy to be green?
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A USA TODAY examination shows that thousands of "green" builders win tax breaks, exceed local restrictions and get expedited permitting under a system that often rewards minor, low-cost steps.

 

Please click "HERE" to read the entire story 

 
 
Strange Facts and Useless Information
 
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
 
If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure. 
 
Portland cement is used for underwater work. It hardens because of a chemical reaction it has with the water, not because the water mixed with it evaporates. The amount of water that reacts with the cement is crucial for this process, and the physical structure of this cement enables it to control exactly how much water gets into the reaction. So it doesn't matter at all how much water surrounds the cement as long as it has enough to set. 
 
 
 
 Comedy Corner 

The Definition of Politics 


A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?"

Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me capitalism. Your Mom, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the government. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the people. The nanny, we'll consider her the working class. And, your baby brother, we'll call him the future. Now, think about that and see if that makes sense,"

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what dad had said. Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. 

So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. 

He gives up and goes back to bed. The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now."

The father says, "Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about." 

The little boy replies, "Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in deep Doo-Doo." 

 
 
 
 

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Another Rapid-Prototyping Feat: Ceramic Bricks Made With 3D Printers

 

Brian Peters, co-founder of Amsterdam-based Design Lab Workshop, has been researching new methods of fabrication as it pertains to architecture. His latest endeavor, Building Bytes, entails making inexpensive bricks for large-scale construction using desktop 3D printers  

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Please click "HERE" to read the entire story. 

 
Key test for 
re-healable concrete

Experimental concrete that patches up cracks by itself is to undergo outdoor testing.

re healable concrete  

Please click "HERE" to read the entire story. 

 
Orange County Vies For Funds To Replace Aging Canyon Bridges

Oct. 18--OC Public Works, an arm of the county, has applied for more than $4 million in federal funding to help replace two aging bridges in the canyons east of Orange because both have become critically fractured since they were built in the 1930s and 1940s

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